Energy crisis? It isn’t that we have too little oil and gas. It’s that we have too much

‘We need a global solution to end this stitch-up, with fairness and security at its heart.’ Photograph: Amer Ghazzal/Shutterstock

Hurricane Ian has just swept across the Caribbean and the US east coast. It’s likely to become the deadliest hurricane in Florida’s history. The entirety of Cuba lost power for several days; homes have been flattened; and repairing the devastation could cost billions.

Hurricanes are a natural meteorological phenomenon, but one study has already found that the climate emergency directly added 10% more rainfall to Hurricane Ian. Arguably, we are already in the eye of an even bigger, global storm – and with every fraction of a degree of global heating, the damage escalates.