While monsoon season brings floods and landslides to Nepal on a yearly basis, scientists said that climate change was exacerbating the problem as the rainfall has got worse year on year.
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There's a 50% chance that the 2°C climate threshold will be crossed by 2044, according to the Metaculus prediction community.