I wrote here yesterday about the Nepal disaster and how we should pause before attributing the event to man-made climate change. I wanted to dig into this deeper, not least because of the onslaught of people who are already attempting to use it to their political advantage. For example, here is Sunil Acharya, described as “an international climate policy and just transition specialist based in Kathmandu”, and writing in the Guardian. After taking it as read that it was climate change that caused the disaster, he asserted: “Nepal has contributed less than 0.1 percent of historical global greenhouse gas emissions. Its per-capita emissions remain among the lowest in the world. Yet we are increasingly paying for a crisis we did almost nothing to create. There is something profoundly unfair about this.”
The link between rising temperatures and glacial floods is a telling tale about the direction of climate science
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