Images of an unbroken cascade of deadly, unprecedented weather disasters -- bulked up by global warming -- that has swept across the globe since the start of summer. Asphalt-melting North American heatwaves in regions considered too temperate for air conditioning; diluvial rainfall tearing apart towns in Germany and Belgium and big cities in China trapping thousands; untamable wildfires fuelled by drought -- decades of dire climate predictions are suddenly a here-and-now reality. A RECAP OF A SUMMER OF GLOBAL CLIMATE DISASTERS