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Extreme weather presents an even bigger threat when economies are crashing and ordinary people are stretched to their limits.
The hits came this week in rapid succession: A cyclone slammed into the Indian megacity of Kolkata, pounding rains breached two dams in the Midwestern United States, and on Thursday came warning that the Atlantic hurricane season could be severe.
It all served as a reminder that the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed 325,000 people so far, is colliding with another global menace: a fast-heating planet that acutely threatens millions of people, especially the world’s poor.
Climate change makes extreme weather events more frequent and more intense. Now, because of the pandemic, they come at a time when national economies are crashing and ordinary people are stretched to their limits.
What a Week’s Disasters Tell Us About Climate and the Pandemic by Somini Sengupta, Climate, New York Times, May 23, 2020
Click here to access the entire article as originally published on the New York Times website.
Video Analyzed: Climate Change: What Do Scientists Say by Richard Lindzen, PragerU, Apr 18, 2016
Three scientists analysed the article and estimate its overall scientific credibility to be ‘very low’.
A majority of reviewers tagged the article as: Inaccurate, Misleading.
Video from PragerU makes several incorrect and misleading claims about climate change, Edited by Niki Forrester, Climate Review, May 23, 2020
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