New Delhi, March 25 -- Every year, I read the World Meteorological Organization's State of the Global Climate report with rising anxiety. When the annual report is released every March, it gives a consolidated scientific roundup on how the previous year has been in relation to the climate crisis.

And so it was on 23 March-World Meteorological Day by the way-when the 2025 report dropped. There was hardly any fanfare. Climate scientists and journalists tweeted about it, there were some statements from UN officials, and that was it. The findings of the report were soon buried under updates of the US and Israel's war on Iran-ironically enough, a fossil fuel war.

The thing is, the State of the Global Climate should be single biggest bit of n...