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in New Jersey and New York City to seek other means to reach their destinations or consider staying home.

“I was worried when the road flooded — how can we go about our daily lives?” she remembers wondering to herself. “The kids can’t go to school or play with their friends. ... We can’t live like this.”The flood water getting higher, she told her husband that it was time to leave.

Asiyah and her husband Aslori pose for a photo outside their old house that they abandoned due to flooding in Mondoliko, Central Java, Indonesia, Monday, Sept. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)Asiyah and her husband Aslori pose for a photo outside their old house that they abandoned due to flooding in Mondoliko, Central Java, Indonesia, Monday, Sept. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)Aslori carries toilets he recovered from his and a relative’s house, as he and several neighbors return from visiting their old abandoned houses in Mondoliko, Central Java, Indonesia, Monday, Sept. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Aslori carries toilets he recovered from his and a relative’s house, as he and several neighbors return from visiting their old abandoned houses in Mondoliko, Central Java, Indonesia, Monday, Sept. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)Early one morning in the pouring rain, Asiyah and Aslori loaded what items they could into their boat: pictures of their wedding and family, documents and a big plastic bowl filled with cooking supplies. She left her house for a final time, making the trip 3 miles (almost 5 kilometers) away to Semarang, where she had found to rent an empty one-bedroom concrete apartment.

The first night in their new apartment Asiyah slept on the ground, trying to soothe her distraught son.

“I tried to make them understand that there was no other option. We can’t work and they can’t go to school if we stayed in Mondoliko,” she says. “It’s uninhabitable.”But it wasn’t long before this theoretical puzzle became a serious concern.

By the late eighties, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was set up to assess how much the climate is warming and if humans have anything to do with it.Ever since its first report in 1990, the link between fossil fuels and global warming was clear. Coal, oil and natural gas for electricity, heating, transport, industries like steel and cement-making, and the gasses from agriculture and refrigerants, are burning up the planet.

Scientists say that average global temperatures have gone up by around 1.1 degrees Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit) since the middle of the nineteenth century, causing hotter temperature extremes, rising seas and weather disasters, with experts warning thatas the world warms up further.