Cuthand: The signs of climate change are all around us

This weekend we are witnessing Hurricane Irma continue its path of destruction through the Caribbean and Florida. Hurricane Irma has been called the largest known hurricane to develop in the Atlantic Ocean, largely because the surface water of the ocean is warmer than usual.
Climate change and the warming of the planet from CO2 emissions have been blamed for the melting of the mountain glaciers, the polar ice caps and changing weather patterns causing droughts in some places and floods in others