“Climate shocks” is a term that is increasingly appearing in scientists' reports in international climate strategies. Abnormal heat, sudden floods, storms are not just extreme weather events, but signs of systemic changes that cannot be ignored.
Have “climate shocks” become the new normal for Ukraine, how do natural ecosystems respond to these stresses, is humanity managing to adapt to them, and what is the role of academic science in developing adaptive strategies? About this and much more in an interview for the program “About Science. Competently” (host – academician Volodymyr Semynozhenko) for the YouTube channel of the NAS of Ukraine told climate scientist, leading researcher at the S.I. Subbotin Institute of Geophysics of the NAS of Ukraine, Doctor of Geographical Sciences Svitlana Boychenko