2022’s biggest climate disasters – and why we must remember them – The Independent
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Wildfires tearing through the London suburbs. One-third of Pakistan underwater. Drought-linked famine looming for tens of millions of people in…
2021 North American heatwave amplified by climate change-driven nonlinear interactions – Nature.com
Popovich, N. & Choi-Schagrin, W. Hidden toll of the Northwest heat wave: hundreds of extra deaths. The New York Times (11 August 2021). Excess Deaths Associated with COVID-19 (CDC, 2021); https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm Heat-Related Deaths in B.C. Knowledge Update (BC Coroners Service,…
Aerosols must be included in climate risk assessments – Nature.com
When Pakistan faced appalling floods in June this year, global attention focused on climate change as the culprit. The country had three times the usual rainfall in its summer monsoon, exacerbated by short spikes of extremely heavy rain. Riverbanks burst…
Mohenjo Daro emerges as symbol of global warming threat to cultural heritage – Pakistan Today
KARACHI: One of the world’s first cities came close to being wiped off the map during tragic floods this summer in Pakistan. Though Mohenjo Daro survived, it has become a symbol of the threat global warming poses to humanity’s cultural…
Warming Worsened West Africa Floods That Killed 800 People – Scientific American
Extreme rainfall in Nigeria triggered catastrophic floods this summer that killed hundreds and displaced more than a million people. A new study finds that the influence of global warming made the downpours 80 times more probable. It’s the latest report…
Study: West African Floods 80 Times More Likely by Climate Change
Heavy rains that led to recent deadly floods in Nigeria and neighboring countries were made about 80 times more likely by human caused climate change, scientists said Wednesday. The floods, which killed more than 600 people in Nigeria and more…
COP27: Global loss and damage assessment needs a major overhaul; here is why
Estimations of loss and damage after weather events do not account for non-economic consequences
Climate Change Made Summer Hotter and Drier Worldwide, Study Finds
Human-caused global warming has made severe droughts like the ones this summer in Europe, North America and China at least 20 times as likely to occur as they would have been more than a century ago, scientists said Wednesday. It’s…
Climate Change Made Summer Hotter and Drier Worldwide, Study Finds – The New York Times
Human-caused global warming has made severe droughts like the ones this summer in Europe, North America and China at least 20 times as likely to occur as they would have been more than a century ago, scientists said Wednesday. It’s…
Pakistan and climate change – The Express Tribune
While those in power are deeply engaged in politics, worrying about their own job security, they show little concern and even less knowledge about another danger to the country they govern. Experts have known for a while that Pakistan is…
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