People wade through a flooded area in Pakistan, that has been dealing with what people are calling"monster monsoons".
Camilo Mora is a climate scientist at the University of Hawaii, and is one of the authors of the study that examines the implications of these microscopic shifts.This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarityIt turns out that just like you and me, every time that we get impacted by one of these climatic hazards, that are becoming more common — a heat wave, a wildfire or whenever there is a flood — all of those things are related to the increasing amount of greenhouse gasses.
One example of this is to imagine that in the middle of the jungle, in the middle of nowhere, there is a bat. That bat obviously has their own pathogens that have been accumulating for hundreds of years. But they are over there and we are over here. So there is never really any contact. There is no risk for us from that bat. Now imagine we are producing greenhouse gasses. We produce a lot of heat. With that heat comes drought and with that drought come wildfires.
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