‘Bigger shocks are on the way’
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NEW YORK (AP): In the opening scene of American writer Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future, a heatwave combined with a breakdown of the electrical grid in India kills 20 million people. The devastation causes the world’s nations to unite to combat climate change. Scientists have long warned that the world will experience more intense extreme weather events like heatwaves, storms, floods and droughts. But what once seemed like the realm of fiction is now discussed as a possibility,