As dangers rise, we must slow global warming

We plan our lives around the seasons — and the weather patterns we’ve come to expect.

But a hotter atmosphere is upending those patterns: Air and ocean currents are shifting, while more evaporation fuels disastrous deluges in some areas and drier droughts in others.

That means more intense hurricanes, heat waves, wildfires and floods.

To protect the people and places we love, we must act now to slash the heat-trapping pollution that’s warming the Earth, and conserve the marvelous ecosystems that help keep our planet healthy.