Soaring temperatures to deadly floods: Is recent extreme weather the ‘new normal’? |
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The world could cross critical global warming thresholds sooner than previously believed, after various weather anomalies such as blistering heatwaves and torrential rains were observed around the globe last month. Professor Jim Skea, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and professor of sustainable energy at Imperial College London, tells CNA’s World Tonight how such weather patterns “could be a kind of new normal”.
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