Climate Change

Did heat play a role in 2025 Club World Cup performance & results?

The new edition of the club world cup ended about a month ago. This new edition saw the team pool expand to 32 teams spanning all football federations, which made for once-in-a-lifetime match-ups, the kind you would only see in preseason friendlies; Esperance de Tunis goes up against London-based Chelsea, Rio de Janiero’s Flamengo, or Los Angeles Football Club.

Jeddah's December temperature is getting increasingly hotter

Growing up in Jeddah, December has always been a month of chillier and nicer weather, where my family enjoyed outdoor outings by the corniche or in the backyard, grilling corn and chestnuts.

Are We Adapting to Climate Change?

We study whether the sensitivity of economic, health, and livelihood outcomes to climate extremes has declined over the last half century, consistent with adaptation. Understanding whether such adaptation is already occurring is central to …

Quantifying Climate Change Loss and Damage Consistent with a Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases

Climate change is generating demonstrable harm around the world. Political and legal efforts have sought to associate climate impacts with specific emissions, including in recent international policy discussion of Loss and Damage (L&D). However, no …

Climate opinion in the Arab world

A couple of months ago, I came across an email from the Arab Barometer series of summary results from their 2018-2019 fifth wave survey . It was from the newly added questions on the public opinion regarding the seriousness of environmental issues, specifically water pollution, climate change, and waste.