India, Sept. 11 -- Scientists at King's College London warn that future climate disasters could be far worse than history suggests, as current 'what-if' risk tools fail to capture unprecedented extremes.

A Nature Sustainability paper shows most deaths from 2000-2025 came from a few massive cyclones and heatwaves, urging new methods to anticipate rare, catastrophic events that could kill millions.

The years ahead may bring climate catastrophes the scale and impact of which cannot be fathomed by the planning tools available at the moment, scientists at King's College London warned on September 10, 2026.

According to the experts, the 'what-if' scenarios now widely used in risk assessment are not designed to identify, and therefore prevent...