Writing in the Chicago Tribune, our Distinguished Lecturer Elizabeth Shackelford considers the implications of rapid climate change in light of the recent disaster in Nepal.
Some climate change disasters are slow but steady, easy to track but also easy to ignore: rising temperatures of air and water, heat waves that get progressively worse, shrinking lakes and rising seas. Others, like this flash flood, come fast and furious. What is even more alarming though are the climate change nightmares we haven’t imagined yet, since we don’t fully understand where the trajectory of rising temperatures will lead.
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