Global warming is not just about increasing the power of air-conditioning by 1 or 2°C. If left unchecked, some self-reinforcing phenomena can bring it totally out of control and lead to a destruction of the agriculture that feeds us… bearing in mind that without food, we simply die!

This episode is based on the following scientific articles:

• Steffen et al."Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene", PNAS | August 14, 2018 | vol. 115 | no. 33 | pp. 8252–8259, freely downlodable at: https://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1810141115
• Bador et al "Future summer mega-heatwave and record-breaking temperatures in a warmer France climate" 2017, Environ. Res. Lett. 12 074025, freely downloadable at: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa751c