Millions of people around the world suffered through deadly flooding and long-lasting heat waves in 2022. A climate scientist explains the rising risks.
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Extreme weather will continue to disrupt global food systems.
Does the Global North have a moral responsibility to protect and compensate those in the Global South that disproportionately bear the brunt of climate change devastation?
Former prime minister emerges from assassination attempt wounded, but vowing to continue protest against government.
Framing floods as ‘natural disasters’ deflects from the reality that vulnerability must exist before a crisis can emerge.
The culpability for Pakistan’s catastrophic floods rests with the government and wealthy polluter countries.
Developing countries want industrialised countries to pay reparations for loss and damage caused by climate change. Even with disasters ramping up, wealthy nations are resisting.
Pakistan contributes less than one per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, but has disproportionately felt the impact of climate change.
There are three key ways climate change probably made these floods worse.
The flooding in Pakistan is the latest in a sequence of exceptional disasters in the Northern Hemisphere. How much is climate change to blame?
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, Imperial College London
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Professor of Disasters and Health, UCL
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Executive Director, Pacific Water Research Centre, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Simon Fraser University
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Change, University of Waikato
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Professor of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, University of Dayton
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Assistant Professor in the Department of Equity Studies, York University, Canada
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Visiting Researcher, University of Victoria
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Research fellow, Australian National University
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Professor of History, Tufts University
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DPhil Candidate in Environmental Research, University of Oxford
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Professor in Regional Transformation and Economic Security, University of Cambridge
