The US presidential election will mean the world either has strong leadership on Nov. 6 to deal with global heating … or it won’t.

Without that leadership …this man-made crisis of nature will deteriorate even faster … and it’s worsening right now at an awful rate. Just look at this August data from NOAA of the US government…published in recent days.

NOAA is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. I suggest it be renamed National Office for Ocean & Atmospheric Accountability to help spur culture change in North America and beyond.

Please help me persuade those to blame for the slow climate action to change their behavior … over the next few weeks. This is an open letter to the world. The snail-like pace is doing my head in.

Donald Trump can be talked into speeding climate action. His choice to embrace Robert F Kennedy is clear evidence of his willingness to change.

Kamala Harris has mostly been a strong climate-action advocate. Lately she has wavered. Obama and Biden were disappointing on climate, favoring long-term market incentives that are not working anywhere near fast enough.

Anti-woke remains a selling point in the election. It’s outrageous and deliberate disinformation from both sides.

Trump and Harris each need to be made to try to win on climate-policy ambition. If this election is not run largely on climate, everyone’s lifestyle near the equator and beyond will change forever. Drought and floods like those in Europe the past few days are probably already locked in during the lifetime of everyone on the planet.

I was speaking to researchers at Kew’s Herbarium in London on the weekend — a place where they document and digitize all plants — and they said plantlife species will probably die out if humankind does not change its ways. See the pics, below.

It’s not just the animals and oceans that are at serious risk. Food shortages are still likely everywhere on earth, even though they’ve been avoided so far.

Ignore those who say this is not a serious fight.

Heat-trapping gas producers in North America and most everywhere are still not paying enough for the damage they are causing — North American emitters have no right to continue this behavior because residents of the US and Canada have already used over the past 200 years way more than their fair share of the global carbon budget set out in the Paris climate deal struck in 2015. Don’t forget the world agreed to sort this problem out more than 30 years ago when it formed the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

The chart below clearly shows global land and ocean temperatures are now breaking through the 1.5C level in Paris.

While the red figure on the right shows 1.32C, you need to add the 0.2C negative average from 1851-1900 baseline marked by the black line.

The fact that NOAA does not use the “proper” baseline (1851-1900) in the chart is part of the sophisticated propaganda to downplay the problem.

The USA is not the only country lagging, of course. Most are. But the pretend-urgent action from the US — the country most responsible for the crisis — is giving all nations an excuse to be slow.

This proved depressingly ignored ahead of the presidential debate last week:

Open letter to America and ABC: How elections are meant to work