New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- Climate Change and You is a fortnightly newsletter written by Bibek Bhattacharya and Sayantan Bera. Subscribe to the newsletter to get it directly in your inbox.

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All around the world, insane, destabilizing weather is rearing its ugly head, and the El Niño system has not even set in yet across the Pacific. Europe just went through a second summer heatwave, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths across July and August. Heatwaves have swept through large parts of Asia as well, with farmers in South Korea digging up their potato crops only to find them soft and boiled in the oven-like heat. Wildfires have swept across Spain, Canada, and Java, Indonesia. The UK is suffering a drought, while day tempe...