wasn't sure if I had seen this posted here, and Anton is as credible as it gets.

It is time to face the facts. Europe is seeing temperatures up to 50 C and people are dying in their homes. What is thousands of heat related deaths today will become millions tomorrow.

While some people are more heat tolerant, younger people from equatorial regions for example and those from the Middle East this future is a threat to everyone.

As the planet heats up it is becoming increasingly obvious that we need to start designing more heat efficient structures and taking advantage of the earth‘s thermal mass.

Using the ground to cool incoming air will both save electricity and enable passive cooling even during power outages.

We should also be looking at painting roofs white and building new homes with fully below grade basements and cellars to act as thermal refuge sites during power outages or extreme heat events.

Where possible we may need to start looking at building up to 2 stories fully underground and moving new homes underground. We need to use less wood and look at building more permanent heat resistant structures.

The time to stop the worst of global warming is past us. Countries need to start working on mitigation and preparation before this consumes us.

Researchers have rediscovered a healthy coral reef off the coast of Benin more than 60 years after surveyors first hinted at its existence. Mass bleaching events and overfishing slashed the world’s coral reef area by more than 50 percent since the 1950s. local oceanographers had written off any remnants of a possible reef as dead. “Since it’s an undisturbed marine ecosystem, it can help through carbon dating or paleoclimatic study to tell us which kind of climate system has occurred here in the past,” said Zinzindohoué. “It’s better to know the past to help explain the present, and help know which kind of direction we can take in the future.” This rediscovered coral reef represents a sliver of hope, as it raises questions about why it has survived while more than 50% of the world's coral reefs have collapsed. Scientists can study this reef to better understand the factors behind its resilience, helping to protect other reefs and improve future conservation efforts.