Apocalypse maybe: Forget the worst case climate scenarios, the official government risk assessment is plenty scary enough

James Murray
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Apocalypse maybe: Forget the worst case climate scenarios, the official government risk assessment is plenty scary enough

Policymakers, infrastructure owners, and business leaders are all guilty of failing to take climate resilience seriously enough, and in so doing only increase the likelihood of dystopian worst case scenarios coming to pass

This week both the Mail on Sunday and The Times ran stories on a little noticed Met Office-backed report titled Shared Socio-Economic Pathways, which explored the potential society wide impacts of a range...

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