| Come 2100, the world will likely have warmed by almost 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit). That's double the rate of increase that scientists have warned is the threshold beyond which the planet will suffer the worst impacts of climate change. A plan to turn Europe into the world's first climate-neutral continent is running into opposition right out of the gate. Some nations are demanding more help financing their transition to a carbon neutral economy, while the heavily polluting airline industry signaled it's ready to fight any attempt to make it pay more. And a push to regulate the burgeoning green finance sector got snarled up by a dispute over whether nuclear power should be included. Exxon Mobil won a novel securities-fraud case brought by New York state that delved into the oil company's accounting for the financial risk of climate change. But Big Oil faces many more lawsuits over its starring role in the climate crisis, some of which seek to hold them liable for bilking taxpayers and consumers out of what may end up being tens of trillions of dollars. From the Bahamas to Mozambique, many of the nations better known as exotic holiday destinations are increasingly blaming the climate crisis for more violent storms. And they want rich, industrialized nations to help pay for the damage they cause.  Over the past four years, weather delays for U.S. commercial flights have been trending higher. They've upended historical patterns and, during the most recent summer storm season, jumped to an 11-year high, according to government data. In June, United Airlines' Denver hub registered as many disruptive storms as it had for the entire previous summer. It turns out that climate change is the new reason your flight is delayed. | 
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