This year, for the second year in a row, Earth will be the hottest it has ever been.

Snow arrived a month later than usual on Japan's Mount Fuji. Overall, we experienced more than 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming compared to pre-industrial levels, the maximum scientists say it can go if we want to avoid the very worst impacts of climate change.

And the main source of the heat is human activity, including the burning of fossil fuels.

The news comes Donald Trump is re-elected for another four-year term in the US.

Trump has called climate change a "hoax" and promised to boost oil production above current record levels.

From Hurricane Milton in Florida, which caused £65bn of destruction, to recent flash flooding in Spain, which killed 200 people, the devastating effects of climate change are making themselves felt across the globe.

Is this the real news?

Yes! It seems we have surpassed the target we set to avoid the most dystopianRelating to an imagined society where there is great suffering or injustice.  effects of climate change.

No! We still have plenty of opportunities to make things right, as long as the rest of the world steps up in the absence of US action.