Things are not going well for the Earth. It goes well beyond the Trump administration\u2019s decision to eventually leave the Paris Agreement and Scott Pruitt\u2019s purge of the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s scientific experts. Even non-American efforts to curb climate change aren\u2019t going so well: Newly released data from the World Meteorological Organization reveal a record increase in average global concentrations of CO between 2015 and 2016.