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2022's supercharged summer of climate extremes: How global warming and La Niña fueled disasters on top of disasters

  • Written by Kevin Trenberth, Distinguished Scholar, NCAR; Affiliated Faculty, University of Auckland
imageAbout a third of Pakistan flooded during the extreme monsoon in 2022, affecting an estimated 33 million people.AP Photo/Fareed Khan

There’s an old joke about the fellow who has his left foot in a bucket of ice water and the right in a bucket of hot water, so that his overall temperature is average. That seemed to apply to the climate during...

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