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Al-Araby
In mid-November, thunderstorms brought thousands of fat-tailed scorpions out of their dens and washed them onto the streets of Aswan, Egypt, injuring over 500 people and killing three. While heavy rains are not unusual in Upper Egypt, the strength and frequency of weather events have been on the rise in the area, reflecting worldwide patterns. The scorpion ‘invasion’, conjuring up images of biblical plagues, serves as a reminder that climate change hits in the subtlest and least predictable ways. And as a powerful, and somewhat eerie involuntary advert for COP27, the UN climate conference is s…