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“Every degree of global warming is projected to cause an exponential increase in extreme daily rainfall,” Manjeet Dhakal told Mongabay. "Nepal must invest in early warning systems, climate-resilient infrastructure, and sustainable urban and rural planning."

The Philippines is one of the most at-risk countries to extreme natural events and negative climate change impacts, writes Jose Manuel Romualdez, the Filipino Ambassador to the United States. He quotes from a recent Climate Analytics study that "even at the time that the Paris Agreement was signed, climate change was already reducing the average income of Filipino households”.

"As the IPCC reports showed, every degree of warming will lead to an exponential rise of floods and rainfall extremes across the country – and that's already happening in Nepal", Manjeet Dhakal spoke to Nepal Now: On the move podcast about the recent floods.

Normally, researchers would need five years of emissions data to confidently assess whether China’s recent emissions decline is temporary or the beginning of a long-term trend, Bill Hare told Nature News. “There are very, very big uncertainties.”

New study shows that as of 2020, methane levels were still on the rise. Bill Hare told AP that to hold global warming to the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C limit, we need to cut carbon dioxide emissions nearly in half and methane by more than one-third.

Fahad Saeed spoke to Al Jazeera about why Karachi hasn’t often been hit by cyclones. “During this time of the year, we have strong easterlies in the upper atmosphere. These are the winds coming from east to west in the middle to upper atmosphere pass over the region of the Arabian Sea and discourage the formation of cyclones or the conversion of depressions into cyclones", he said.

"The need for loss and damage finance is here today, and costs will only rise without urgent climate action now," Rosanne Martyr told Phys.org. "In 2020, some Pacific Island nations including Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and Micronesia lost more than one percent of their GDP to rising seas."

The glacial lake flood that hit the Nepali village of Thame last week illustrates how vulnerable communities continue to bear the brunt of climate extremes – and of the need for global action to limit warming to 1.5°C, writes Manjeet Dhakal.

Australia’s coal and gas exports cause more climate damage than those from any other country bar Russia, according to a new study by Climate Analytics that argues the country is undermining a global agreement to transition away from fossil fuels.

In 1969, founding chair of the Australian Petroleum Exploration Association Reg Sprigg wrote that there was "considerable evidence to indicate that man’s pollution of the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels, is already [happening],” leading to "increased CO₂ in the atmosphere warming the earth’s climate". Bill Hare told The Saturday Paper that Sprigg's observations were “just another piece of evidence that the fossil fuel industry knew how serious the climate change problem was and that they were the main driver of it”.