Heat waves: A hotter planet will mean more frequent and severe heat waves.
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What happens during heat waves, and how has climate change affected the outcomes of those heat waves?
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Australia specifically, which is already prone to heat waves, is vulnerable to "more frequent, hotter, and longer" heat waves.
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As global warming increases, just like heat waves on land get more intense, so do heat waves over the ocean.
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Heat waves: Scientists have the most confidence when it comes to making a connection between heat waves and global warming.
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Interestingly, the study found that the number of marine heat waves is increasing faster than the number of heat waves on land.
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The airport most challenged by future heat waves will be those featuring short runways, high altitudes, and, unsurprisingly, a propensity for heat waves.
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"Heat waves reduce male fertility and sperm competitiveness, and successive heat waves almost sterilize males," Sales and his co-authors wrote in the study.
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The ties between heat waves and climate change are robust, with climate scientists already tying the Scandinavian and U.K. heat waves to climate change.
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Heat waves: Heat waves have become longer and more frequent around the world over the past 50 years, particularly in Europe, Asia, and Australia.
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It's possible they overestimated the effects of irrigation on heat waves, though observational evidence already supports the emergence of extreme heat waves in this region.
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"We're not seeing worse heat waves or longer heat waves or more of those long nights that don't fall below 22017 degrees," Dr. Blumenfeld said.
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A variety of studies have shown that a warming climate increases the chances of heat waves and how severe those heat waves are going to be, Sobel says.
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More intense heat waves Heat waves such as this one could become the new normal for Europe, driven by rising temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions, scientists say.
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That's why heat waves can kill people in cool climates.
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Heat waves kill more Americans than any other weather event.
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Spring heat waves in India killed an estimated 2,500 people.
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It's not just heat waves, and it's not just Europe.
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Heat waves also pose a major threat to human lives.
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Heat waves are hotter, rainstorms more intense, and droughts drier.
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Similar heat waves swept the US and Japan in July.
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Heat waves are often most pronounced in dense, urban areas.
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Several heat waves have struck the Pacific Ocean since 20173.
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Climate Fwd: Also this week, a wave of heat waves.
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Heat waves on four continents have brought electricity grids crashing.
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In recent years, heat waves have claimed hundreds of lives.
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And yes, climate change makes heat waves hotter and longer.
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But as the climate changes, heat waves will get worse.
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It's likely there will be many more ocean heat waves.
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Heat waves, wildfires and monster storms are killing people outright.
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Heat waves can be deadly, and climate change is making them more frequent Scientists say that the increasing frequency, intensity, and duration of heat waves are some of the strongest signals of climate change.
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The researchers evaluated heat waves, droughts, flooding and other phenomena and determined, for example, that marine heat waves off the coast of Australia in 2017 and 2018 would have been "virtually impossible" without climate change.
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Also, deadly heat waves may weaken overall health due to dehydration.
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Some of these heat waves will hit airports with short runways.
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"Mortality increases 22% on average during these heat waves," he said.
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The good news: Heat waves are fairly predictable, the organization said.
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Heat waves are increasing in duration and frequency, while smashing records.
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More heat waves are inevitable as the climate continues to warm.
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Climate change is implicated in the increase in deadly heat waves.
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Heat waves in particular are becoming more intense and longer-lasting.
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Yes, of course, heat waves happen, and the causes are complex.
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Climate change makes heat waves like this one disproportionately more likely.
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Heat waves may not look extreme, but they can be deadly.
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Extreme heat waves would routinely smother large parts of the globe.
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Or: are unusual heat waves (like this one) becoming more intense?
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Air pollution makes the health effects of heat waves far worse.
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China may be most at risk for deadly, extreme heat waves.
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When deadly heat waves hit on land, we hear about them.
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And France is not at all prepared for these heat waves.
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The air pollution often associated with heat waves intensifies the problems.
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Heat waves in the Arctic are having another knock-on effect.
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Heat waves stole 153 billion hours of labor globally last year.
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Even outside of these heat waves, the ocean is warming up.
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Fearsome heat waves swept across Europe; in France, nearly 218,221 died.
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Heat waves around the country could last up to a month.
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Go deeper: Blazing heat waves blast Australia as all-time records fall
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Details: The heat waves began in December and have continued throughout January.
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Higher temperatures are also increasing the frequency and intensity of heat waves.
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Climate change is also altering weather patterns, making heat waves more prevalent.
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Heat waves this summer were "unprecedented in size and scope," BOM stated.
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The death tolls of subsequent heat waves have not come anywhere close.
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Droughts and heat waves in India have killed at least 137 people.
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Heat waves are setting all-time temperature records across the globe, again.
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All of our records we've hit in heat waves, look at them.
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Heat waves in Europe, however, are increasing in both frequency and intensity.
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And warming creates deadlier heat waves, more intense drought and so on.
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Climate change makes monster heat waves like this one disproportionately more likely.
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Climate change makes heat waves hotter, hurricanes stronger, and forests more flammable.
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In temperate areas, extreme heat waves and cold snaps broke temperature records.
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Climate change's role in these heat waves essentially amps up their intensity.
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There were at least six deaths attributed to heat waves this year.
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In addition to wildfires, rising temperatures make extreme heat waves more frequent.
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You can expect many more heat waves in the years to come.
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In 2018, heat waves killed people in Montreal, Karachi, Tokyo and elsewhere.
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Rising temperatures and prolonged heat waves are also a factor, scientists say.
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This summer, we've seen heat waves roast both parts of the world.
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As heat waves crested around the world, we saw temperature records smashed.
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Heat waves certainly happen from time to time, but climate scientists repeatedly underscore that human-caused climate change, which has resulted in an accelerated warming of the planet, enhances heat waves to new extremes and spurs on new records.
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Both wild plants and crops are experiencing increased flooding, heat waves, and pestilence.
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Climate change could potentially lead to more frequent heat waves, exacerbating these effects.
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Thanks to climate change, these types of heat waves are happening more frequently.
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If you live in a humid climate, heat waves hit like nothing else.
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Does she get to turn on the AC during this summer's heat waves?
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Back in the 1960s, the U.S. experienced roughly two heat waves per year.
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Over the last 100 years, Europe has experienced an increase in heat waves.
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That's because heat waves were once unusual in the cooler, high-latitude nation.
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The European heat waves in 2003 lead to the deaths of 70,000 people.
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There were additional "extreme heat waves" over the Arctic Ocean throughout the winter.
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All of which will hold up against the dreaded heat waves to come.
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"For heat waves, our options are now between bad or terrible," Mora said.
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Heat waves caused power outages that left tens of thousands without air conditioning.
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Heat waves have long plagued India and fueled a seasonal surge in deaths.
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Both increase during heat waves—like the one oppressing Miami at the moment.
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Okay, how about: Are intense heat waves (like this one) becoming less unusual?
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Europe was hit by back-to-back deadly heat waves over the summer.
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Several of those heat waves bear the fingerprints of human-caused climate change.
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Heat waves like these are becoming more frequent and prolonged, weather experts say.
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Heat waves, he said, have not occurred universally enough to cause widespread decline.
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Additionally, he wants to study how long the effects of heat waves last.
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Scientists say climate change will fuel even more heat waves and extreme weather.
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Unprecedented seabird die-offsSeabirds face a slightly different climate threat: marine heat waves.
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Summer was blisteringly hot, with heat waves in June and again in July.
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Yet most weather-related public health plans focus on heat waves, even though the death rate during cold spells exceeds that during heat waves, and minimal if any attention has been given to the life-threatening risks linked to everyday cold.
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This can turn deadly fast if heat waves strike and last for several days.
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More homes will need air conditioners as summers become filled with deadly heat waves.
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Southeast Asia experienced deadly heat waves occurring in Thailand and India, among other nations.
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The fires, droughts and heat waves of a record hot 2012 cost $75 billion.
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Mainstream scientists say fossil fuels contribute to heat waves, floods, droughts and rising seas.
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As you might expect, climate change is making heat waves longer and more common.
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Three blistering heat waves enveloped much of southeastern Australia in January and February 2017.
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"It's an increase in heat waves that is very stark and noticeable," said Hawkins.
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"It was like heat waves were coming out of a clay oven," he said.
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India has suffered from deadly heat waves and widespread droughts, accentuated by rising temperatures.
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Marine heat waves caused by global warming killed off and damaged corals in 2016.
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Drought and heat waves could affect crop and meat production, disrupting the food supply.
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The country is prone to heat waves and is already contending with devastating floods.
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Nine of the ten deadliest heat waves in human history have occurred since 2000.
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I could feel the almost unbearable heat waves of the latter, volley after volley.
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The results were even more pronounced when beetles were subjected to multiple heat waves.
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"The probability of marine heat waves is projected to increase almost everywhere," Frölicher said.
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But regional marine heat waves can happen even without an El Niño, he said.
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As average temperatures rise, heat waves are becoming longer, more frequent, and more intense.
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But the heat waves are consistent with the overall trend of accelerating global warming.
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But France's national weather agency said that heat waves were already on the rise.
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This sweltering summer of wildfires and life-threatening heat waves demonstrates that they must.
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Heat waves are becoming more intense and more frequent, thanks to the climate crisis.
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The heat waves aren't much of a reprieve from bitter winters and rainy springs.
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But severe heat waves have already killed more than 128,000 people worldwide since 2000.
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Vines are being more exposed to frost in spring and heat waves in summer.
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Scientists have warned that global warming intensifies droughts and heat waves feeding the flames.
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Extreme weather events, including floods, wildfires and heat waves, are becoming the new norm.
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Latinx families and workers are vulnerable to record heat waves and heat-related deaths.
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It came amid warnings of more frequent and extreme heat waves in the region.
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As the climate changes, heat waves are poised to get longer and more intense.
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Although heat waves are stoked by a confluence of weather events like the behavior of winds high up in the atmosphere, the rise in global temperatures spurred on by human-caused climate change has given heat waves — including this one — a potent boost.
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The result is more heat waves and droughts, more potent storms and rising sea levels.
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Last year, there were 22015 official heat waves across India, up from 233 in 235.
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Heat waves are the deadliest weather events most years , more so than hurricanes or tornadoes.
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This summer has been brutal for heat waves in much of the US and Europe.
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For example, extreme heat waves have repeatedly hit the Great Barrier Reef, northeast of Australia.
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And it's these heat waves, the researchers say, that will likely produce the most problems.
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As heat waves have increased, kelp forests, seagrass meadows, and coral reefs have been lost.
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As projected, this means more heat waves, melted ice sheets, and persistent, large-scale drought.
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This background warming makes typical heat waves all the more extreme, resulting in record heat.
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It isn't always just the heat that kills people in heat waves, she points out.
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Top it off with a pitcher of fresh beer to offset springtime's budding heat waves.
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This occurrence often leads to heat waves, and to thunderstorms as the hot air rises.
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"It is inevitable," Stone said, that large cities will see blackouts during future heat waves.
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So does the decline in marine fisheries, while exposure to extreme heat waves almost triples.
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"Study after study finds discernible fingerprints of climate change in contemporary heat waves," Shepherd said.
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"They will be hit very hard by these increasing risks and heat waves," she said.
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As a result, summer heat waves and other extreme weather events will become more common.
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Heat waves in the United Kingdom and Germany have worried public health officials there, too.
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Outside, heat waves undulated over the parking lot, which seemed to stretch on for miles.
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Over all, there were 54 percent more days per year with marine heat waves globally.
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Extreme weather events have always happened, and heat waves would occur even without global warming.
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It's not yet known whether these individual heat waves are directly linked to climate change.
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Heat waves are bound to get more frequent and more intense, we reported last summer.
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The percentage of people exposed to severe heat waves would plummet to about 14 percent.
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As with the European heat waves, the most vulnerable in society will bear the brunt.
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It's killing people by way of stronger storms and hotter heat waves and unchecked pollution.
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Recent heat waves in Europe and India have already been linked to thousands of deaths.
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Analyses have shown that climate change has increased the likelihood of such extreme heat waves.
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Hotter and longer heat waves might increase the rate of preterm birth, new research suggests.
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As things trend warmer, we can expect to see oppressive heat waves like these more often.
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Rahmstorf related recent heat waves to climate change by comparing them with 500 years of records.
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Heat waves are becoming more frequent and more severe because of the climate crisis, scientists say.
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But there were more blackouts from storms in December, and more from heat waves in February.
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At first, many dismissed the natural gas rally because of heat waves and floods in Texas.
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The ocean won't stave off radical climate disruption, deadly heat waves, and ruinous damage to crops.
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Farmers will have to handle the droughts and heat waves that will come with global warming.
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The researchers estimate that 99% of future weather-related deaths will be due to heat waves.
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Beijing is also part of the North China Plain, making it vulnerable to extreme heat waves.
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Higher temperatures, heat waves, drought and wildfires are leading to a disproportionate impact on Latino laborers.
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Currently, seasonal climate forecasts do not predict the likelihood of extreme events, such as heat waves.
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European cities get it worse than suburbia and rural areas when it comes to heat waves.
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It is the lack of overnight cooling that has proved deadly in past Midwest heat waves.
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As we've seen in previous heat waves, and loss of power, there could be substantial deaths.
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Those disasters include heat waves, severe storms, hurricanes, droughts, floods, wildfires, famines and sea level rise.
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" And in the summer, swings between rainfall "often coincide with heat waves that can damage crops.
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And the painters work through any kind of weather: rain, heat waves, and even polar vortexes.
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We are already seeing heat waves surpassing 120 degrees Fahrenheit, sooner than many experts thought likely.
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Extreme rainstorms (as this chart shows) are becoming more common, as are droughts and heat waves.
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Some of that heat came in the form of heat waves that took hundreds of lives.
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Hemanth Kolla is from Hyderabad, in India, where drought and scorching heat waves have been deadly.
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More frequent heat waves, floods, droughts, fires, and pest outbreaks were on the way, scientists said.
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Heat waves are roiling southern Europe, and temperatures are nearing 130 degrees in parts of Pakistan.
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At that point, the planet will face severe effects, including worsened droughts, floods and heat waves.
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And with such dramatic weather changes, increased temperatures are expected to spur more intense heat waves.
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The heat waves have been reported recently near both California and Uruguay, according The Washington Post.
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Medical experts say it is important during heat waves to stay hydrated by drinking plenty of fluids.
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Yet, a changing climate doesn't necessarily mean more hurricanes, like it does more heat waves and wildfires.
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Severe weather events such as floods, storms and heat waves appear to be happening with greater frequency.
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Not to mention the heat waves, droughts, wild-fires and other consequences that arise from climate change.
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At least the vase itself will be waterproof, if a bit prone to melting during heat waves.
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The report cited a growing frequency and intensity of storms, heat waves, droughts and rising sea levels.
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"Climate scientists believe that the frequency and duration of heat waves is going to increase," Sones wrote.
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Summer is fast-approaching, which means you need to prepare yourself for a series of heat waves.
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Between 2000 and last year, the number of adults facing debilitating heat waves rose by 125 million.
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It will result in higher temperatures for longer periods of time and more potentially deadly heat waves.
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Southern Europe is likely to be hit the hardest, based on projections for heat waves and droughts.
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In Kansas City, you know you're going to get one or two of these crazy heat waves.
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Political winds could shift quickly, especially if an environmental disaster occurs, or the current heat waves worsen.
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Other major weather influences may be changing too, further exacerbating heat waves, like the one in Europe.
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Heat waves are caused by high atmospheric pressure, which means air is being pulled down to Earth.
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This lack of overnight cooling has proven to be deadly in past heat waves impacting urban areas.
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Unseen radiated heat waves transmit in all directions igniting wood window frames of buildings across wide streets.
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"Cracked mud is the violence of heat waves made visible," she writes of Big Bend National Park.
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Climate change increases the frequency and severity of extreme weather events like wildfires, heat waves, and hurricanes.
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We would have had heat waves, sure, but they would have been different ones, on different days.
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There are devastating wildfires from California to Greece, and record-breaking heat waves from Arizona to Algeria.
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What's happening now: Extreme heat waves are a present-day danger as well as a growing risk.
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In many places, this has led to heat waves and droughts, which can turn plants into fuel.
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Intense heat waves have swept Europe this summer, breaking temperature records in at least a dozen countries.
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The recent droughts, floods, heat waves and wildfires reveal how acutely vulnerable California is to climate change.
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Heat waves are bound to get more intense and more frequent as emissions rise, scientists have concluded.
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Deadly heat waves scorched all corners of the globe this summer and huge wildfires set California ablaze.
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Planting more trees in cities can help reduce urban temperatures and protect people from deadly heat waves.
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Ms. Ferorelli is well aware that her city is at high risk for wildfires and heat waves.
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Heat waves in Western Europe last summer resulted in hundreds of additional deaths, according to government agencies.
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When dangerous heat waves arrive, access to air conditioning can be a matter of life or death.
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But scientists expect more heat waves like the one here this week as the planet grows hotter.
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But the public began to notice the heat waves and the torrential rains and the tidal flooding.
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According to one study, more casualties have resulted from heat waves than hurricanes, floods and tornadoes together.
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That knowledge will become even more valuable in a world with more frequent droughts and heat waves.
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As the country deals with deadly bushfires and record-breaking heat waves, wildlife there has been devastated.
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The next year, the country put a national plan in place to deal with deadly heat waves.
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The report found that the frequency of heat waves in oceans has very likely doubled since 1982.
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Heat waves between 2016 and 2017 killed half the corals at the Great Barrier Reef, for instance.
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The ancient microorganism is thriving thanks to record heat waves and fertilizers washed away into nearby waters.
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So as global warming gets worse, heat waves on land and in the ocean grow more intense.
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The damages from the hurricanes, heat waves, wildfires, and tornadoes in 2017 cost at least $306 billion.
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Global heat and coral bleaching began to increase in 2014 and continued through 2017; this event meant that marine heat waves causing bleaching struck three-quarters of the world's coral reefs and that the heat waves that cause corals to die struck almost a third, the researchers said.
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Heat waves in India usually take place between March and July and abate once the monsoon rains arrive.
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If we don't cut greenhouse gas emissions, we'll see more deadly heat waves, acidic oceans, and rising seas.
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A climate professor in Germany says heat waves like this will happen more frequently because of climate change.
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Then heat waves baked much of the state, drying out the vegetation, followed by unusually stiff seasonal winds.
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As a result, the country has seen a dramatic drop in deaths from heat waves in recent years.
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Earlier this summer, heat waves shattered records in Europe and affected millions of people in the United States.
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Many areas are experiencing severe heat waves and state governments estimate more than 370 people killed so far.
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More warming, likely leading to more frequent or damaging heat waves and droughts, can also hurt crop production.
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Marine heat waves, however, aren't nearly as well-documented, but are already known to be devastating, said Patzert.
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By killing adult corals, the heat waves slashed the rate of reproduction and the balance between coral species.
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Sea level rise, heat waves, droughts, and floods threaten to make many of our habitats and infrastructure obsolete.
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Heat waves will likely occur ten times more frequently than they do now, and they'll last much longer.
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However, the planet is getting hotter, and heat waves will only become longer, more frequent, and more intense.
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London (CNN Business)Summer is in full swing, with much of Europe sweltering in record-breaking heat waves.
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The first major science study to connect greenhouse gases to stronger and longer heat waves was in 2004.
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This allows heat waves to persist over a region, like Europe, and lock in days of scorching weather.
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Scientists say that the number of heat waves in 50 major American cities has tripled since the 1960s.
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"I'm virtually certain that nearly all heat waves have been made more severe by climate change," said Wehner.
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Those problems are all projected to get worse as sea levels rise and heat waves get more frequent.
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As climate change leads to more frequent heat waves, that economic impact could add up in the future.
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In the United States, July heat waves have stretched from the highly populated Northeast to the desert Southwest.
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Heat Waves Could Kill Thousands of People in U.S. Cities If Climate Goals Aren't Met, The Smithsonian reports.
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Individual wildfires and heat waves can't be directly linked to climate change, but accelerated warming increases their likelihood.
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Extreme heat waves are frequently cited as one of the most direct effects of man-made climate change.
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Odisha's government departments have been asked to put in place measures in anticipation of heat waves this summer.
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Heat waves and droughts cause vegetation to dry into combustible fuels, enabling small fires to become widespread infernos.
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"More extreme positions create more extreme climate events, especially heat waves and storms," in Europe, Dr. Trouet said.
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Scientists project that heat waves will become more frequent, intense, and longer lasting as average temperatures go up.
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Scientists say intermittent underwater heat waves are intensifying, occurring more often and lasting longer because of climate change.
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But Professor Taylor said that individual responses to heat waves tended to illustrate a problem of environmental justice.
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Increasingly frequent heat waves can also exacerbate respiratory and cardiovascular disorders, resulting in hospitalization and even premature death.
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Extreme cold waves, it says, are less common since the 1980s, while extreme heat waves are more common.
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With climate change making ocean heat waves more common, the NOAA has released a 2019 coral bleaching alert.
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Sudden spikes in sea temperatures are called marine heat waves, and they can be devastating to ocean ecosystems.
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Climate change has already led to an increase in droughts, heat waves, extreme hurricanes and other destructive weather.
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More than 6,000 people have died because of heat waves in India since 2010, according to government data.
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The warmest days have become warmer since the early 1960s and extreme heat waves have become more frequent.
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In a typical year in the US, heat waves kill more people than tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, or freezing.
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Mishra sees a unique opportunity for Symphony in the extreme and unpredictable heat waves brought on by climate change.
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The likelihood of other dangerous outcomes such as longer droughts, more intense and lasting heat waves would also increase.
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Where I live, the heat waves were so intense this summer that wildlife was dropping dead from the trees.
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They will live through an era of rising seas, heat waves, droughts, floods and extinctions that are without precedent.
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Click through for four easy summer meals that will get you back into the kitchen — heat waves be damned.
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The deadly threat from heat waves caught the country's attention in 1995, when one killed 739 people in Chicago.
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Vulnerable adults, such as those over 0.753 or with chronic disease, are facing a greater number of heat waves.
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Raukar agrees that a lot can be done to help people survive heat waves with proper preparation and resources.
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When you hear about 100-year storms or once-in-a-lifetime heat waves, those frequency estimates assume stationarity.
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When the air gets hotter, it's able to hold more water, and humid air makes heat waves more likely.
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Extreme heat waves are imperiling people around the world and affecting the productivity of those who must work outdoors.
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Cities like Chicago and New Delhi have already endured fatal heat waves, which could get worse in the future.
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Less than four months into 2017, parts of Australia and India are already in the throes of heat waves.
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History-making heat waves and drought are driving an unusually strong wildfire season that's burning up the American West.
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The same report also warns that heat waves will be more intense, frequent and longer-lasting in coming decades.
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The females that were exposed to heat waves were about as reproductively successful as the control group of females.
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"This may be one of the worst heat waves in the last few decades," warned the National Weather Service.
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Scientists have warned that the world should expect more scorching heat waves and extreme weather due to climate change.
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Some triple-digit days are far from unheard-of, but climate change has ushered in more intense heat waves.
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Cost No. 1: Responding to flooding, heat waves and other extreme weather that climate change is often making worse.
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In a world of more Harveys, rising sea levels, heat waves and droughts, what do we owe each other?
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There are more frequent and more severe weather-related events — more droughts, more floods, more heat waves, more storms.
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Even the 268-degree rise would see frequent devastating heat waves and many coastal cities inundated by rising seas.
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Between 2016 and 2017, half the corals at the Great Barrier Reef were killed by two ocean heat waves.
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Droughts, heat waves, and wildfires are growing more intense and dangerous from global warming and rising greenhouse gas emissions.
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The Arctic in particular is warming twice as fast as the global average and experienced many historic heat waves.
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Future intense heat waves and other extreme weather events will only serve as reminders that the clock is ticking.
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The typhoon comes during a summer plagued with weather issues, including lethal floods and landslides and deadly heat waves.
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Moody's warnings go beyond the risks of coastal storm damage, more frequent and severe droughts, wildfires and heat waves.
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As temperatures rise, there's a greater chance of getting more intense heat waves and setting new heat records, says Sobel.
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In the summer, miserable heat waves can serve as another leading cause of premature death for our best beauty staples.
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Climate change is like diabetes for the planet: It makes existing weather conditions, like heat waves and rain events, worse.
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The bottom line: Numerous climate studies have tied increasingly persistent, frequent and severe heat waves to human-caused global warming.
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Climate change is not a sudden event, even though it includes fast acting forces -- storms, fires, heat waves and catastrophes.
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The wildfires follow the longest sustained drought on record in Sweden and heat waves that have engulfed most of Europe.
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Heat waves and wildfires are projected to become more widespread and severe in Australia as the climate continues to warm.
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That has worsened heat waves, floods and droughts, leading to record-breaking temperatures in 2014 and then again in 2015.
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Trump has sometimes dismissed man-made climate change - which can bring increased droughts, floods and heat waves - as a hoax.
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This happens during extreme heat waves when air conditioning use spikes and all natural gas-fired electricity generation is required.
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Sun-baked sidewalks opposite shaded ones just across a street can produce uneven heat waves, causing unpredictable downdrafts and updrafts.
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This summer people have been suffering and dying because of heat waves and wildfires in many parts of the world.
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Global warming also brings us more extreme weather events, like crippling heat waves and droughts already affecting millions of people.
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Heat waves are a massive public health issue – not just for the old, sick, and very young but for everyone.
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It's the height of August, and many parts of the world have been dealing with relentless heat waves this summer.
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You read about hurricane stories and heat waves, but the massive, most catastrophic events haven't touched us yet in Canada.
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This includes extreme distortions of the jet stream, which can cause heat waves in summer and cold snaps in winter.
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Heat waves or hot weather that lasts for several days is not only uncomfortable, but also dangerous to your health.
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Intense, long-lasting heat waves are one of the most robust signs of global warming, according to numerous scientific studies.
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In France alone, 1,435 deaths were linked to the pair of heat waves that struck Europe in June and July.
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Cows, who rely on respiration to regulate body heat and do not sweat effectively, are particularly susceptible to heat waves.
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Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and tropical storms, all exacerbated by climate change, cost the US economy at least $000 billion.
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Record-breaking heat waves, deadly wildfires, rising sea levels — those are all tangible things that we can see fairly easily.
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"No storms or floods or droughts or heat waves can be traced to my individual act of driving," he wrote.
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It cited increasing water scarcity in dry regions, torrential downpours in wet regions and more severe heat waves and wildfires.
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California is battling some of the worst wildfires in its history, alongside drought, extreme heat waves and degraded air quality.
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Go deeper: Global heat waves animation shows records broken in 2018 Rising global temperatures wreak havoc on urban "heat islands"
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Karachi Journal KARACHI, Pakistan — Heat waves have become common this time of year in Karachi, Pakistan's sprawling seaside port city.
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Heat waves have been more frequent in Karachi since that time, but the recent one is the worst since then.
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The urge to boycott the kitchen entirely during the summer months is understandable, especially for city dwellers enduring heat waves.
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In general, studies of heat waves tend to produce the clearest signal of the influence, or not, of global warming.
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The work is gaining increased interest from European winemakers as summer heat waves and other climate shifts affect their vines.
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With their deep roots and tough, gnarly branches, pistachio trees are hardy, tolerant of salty soils and brutal heat waves.
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The frequency of marine heat waves — which can kill fish, seabirds, coral reefs and seagrasses — has doubled since the 1980s.
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So as Washington goes into reverse gear on climate policy, seas will keep rising and heat waves will get worse.
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Unprecedented heat waves and wildfires led to over 1600 deaths in Europe, Japan and the United States, the report noted.
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Brutal heat waves are becoming unbearable, making people sicker and poorer, and diminishing the living standards of 800 million people.
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Many places around the world have endured heat waves so far this year, including parts of Spain, China, Nepal and Zimbabwe.
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For a song so piping it distorts your vision like heat waves rising from a desert road, the name is fitting.
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The West's fire season is now well underway, and it has been further stoked by heat waves and especially parched land.
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We're only just beginning to get hit with hot weather and so far, all those rays and heat waves feel glorious.
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Years of drought coupled with heat waves and increasingly gusty winds earlier in the week created the wild flames, said officials.
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" Oceans around Australia have warmed by nearly the same amount since 1910, "contributing to longer and more frequent marine heat waves.
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Between the lines: Heat waves of exceptional magnitude and duration are one of the clearest manifestations of human-caused global warming.
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Climate scientists warn that heat waves will dramatically worsen if countries do not slash greenhouse gas emissions in the near future.
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Go deeper: Blistering Australian heat is breaking records and killing wildlife Blazing heat waves blast Australia as all-time records fall
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Climate change stands to escalate these threats, by contributing to higher seas, more intense storms, worsening wildfires and extended heat waves.
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Climate studies consistently show that heat waves are becoming more common across the world, and hitting new all-time temperature records.
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Infants, older people, women, tourists or migrants and people working or living outside are among the most vulnerable in heat waves.
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Scientists expect that extreme droughts and heat waves will become more frequent and intense in the regions that grow the grain.
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As the earth warms, the frequency and severity of heat waves, droughts, extreme rain events, and hurricanes and typhoons will increase.
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Scientific studies show that global warming is also enhancing the likelihood of heat waves as well as making them more severe.
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Heat waves typically arise when a high pressure system — which invites clear skies and sunshine — settles over a region, like Europe.
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"Whether it's seaweeds or corals, fish, seabirds or mammals, you can detect the adverse effects of marine heat waves," he said.
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The cash will help developing nations cut emissions and adapt to impacts such as desertification, heat waves, floods and rising seas.
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However, a rapid transition is what's needed to avert dangerous climate change effects, from sea level rise to deadly heat waves.
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A 2018 study published in Nature Communications found that the area can expect several severe heat waves from 2070 to 2100.
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And climate impacts are being felt by our communities now: wildfires, droughts, heat waves, record-breaking rainfall, stronger hurricanes, rising seas.
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Electricity demand will likely rise due to increased heat waves, while extreme weather patterns will necessitate flood-prevention measures, it added.
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With climate change exacerbating heat waves, we need to prepare for more deadly heat across the US and around the world.
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Meteorologists define heat waves as occurring once the temperature hits or goes above 90 degrees for at least three consecutive days.
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Chat about the increased coastal flooding or data about the stronger heat waves that have occurred in the last 10 years.
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Meaning, looks that easily mix and match for chilly nights now and show a little skin for balmy heat waves later.
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There has been a substantial increase in extreme heat waves in the region already in the last 50 years, he added.
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In recent years, we have seen record breaking wildfires, hurricanes, heat waves and floods rip across the country with alarming frequency.
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Her lungs couldn't take New York's heat waves and she longed to marry a redheaded boy she had met back home.
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Our emissions of heat-trapping gases have already increased the likelihood and severity of heat waves, extreme rainfall and storm surges.
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In their estimation, the most savage heat waves that we experience today will likely become routine in a matter of decades.
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Marine heat waves are said to occur when sea temperatures are much warmer than normal for at least five consecutive days.
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Heat waves like these are becoming more frequent and prolonged, with hotter temperatures appearing earlier in the season, weather experts say.
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But the overall relationship is clear: Aside from heat waves, climate change will bring other kinds of extreme weather and disasters.
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Warm up by dipping into one of these books — set in blazing hot summers, during heat waves, even in the desert.
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The Camp Fire underscored the increasing threat that wildfires pose to California as climate change has intensified droughts and heat waves.
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The red squirrel was not the only creature affected during the Arizona wildfires, intensified by heat waves in the state's south.
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Heat waves, floods and storms can batter the very public health systems that are meant to help people, the report says.
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Intense, life-threatening heat waves have become more frequent as the climate has warmed, and Asia has been especially hard-hit.
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Climate scientists have long said that climate change should bring an increase in extreme events like dry spells and heat waves.
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Climate change makes marine heat waves worse because the ocean absorbs 93% of the extra heat greenhouse gases trap on Earth.
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Amazon said at the time that it took emergency actions during heat waves and subsequently installed cooling systems in its warehouses.
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The number of marine heat waves has doubled over the last four decades, the report says, and they're growing more intense.
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Swathes of forest, grass, and brush are just sitting there, parched by a series of record or near-record heat waves.
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Extreme weather patterns associated with heat waves and droughts are raising the risks of global food shortages, two studies have found.
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Monster hurricanes flooded the Gulf and Caribbean, fires burned millions of acres in the West, and heat waves scorched the country.
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The future will also bring further sea level rise, stronger hurricanes, storm surges, droughts, heat waves and wildfires beyond historical precedent.
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The worst heat waves in Europe over the last 500 years, for instance, have all come in the last 17 years.
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The worst heat waves in Europe over the last 500 years, for instance, have all come in the last 17 years.
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Every additional degree means more coastal area lost to the sea, more crop failures, more deadly heat waves, more human misery.
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It's proven effective: in 2015, when heat waves killed over 2,500 people across India, Ahmedabad reported fewer than 20 heat-related deaths.
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Experts have predicted everything from deadly heat waves and devastating floods to falling crop production and even increased political instability and violence.
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At places like Washington's Reagan National Airport, New York's LaGuardia Airport, and Dubai International, the real trouble will come during heat waves.
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Another predator is the last thing the struggling shellfish population needs after combatting fatal marine heat waves caused by increasingly warm currents.
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In July heavy rain, flooding, and landslides killed 225 people, while that same month heat waves claimed the lives of 138 people.
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Think melting polar ice caps, rising sea levels and extensive flooding, killer heat waves, bleached coral reefs, food shortages, and deadly diseases.
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The Pour Wine producers are grappling with a maelstrom caused by a warming planet: heat waves, droughts, cold snaps, wildfires and more.
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Severe heat waves are a major concern in Europe, particularly since a 2003 heat wave helped to kill as many as 70,000.
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That increase has already contributed to significant polar ice melt and led to a rise in wildfires, droughts and epic heat waves.
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"The number and duration of heat waves will also increase and, again, high temperature records will be broken more frequently," said Weisenmiller.
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The most easily-predicted results, record-breaking heat waves and historic wildfires, are manifesting globally, as well as more complex atmospheric changes.
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Well, the grid has gotten more vulnerable to weather, which itself is getting weirder, with more heat waves, and more extreme events.
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Prolonged and expansive heat waves have altered daily life in Europe, causing train cancellations and transforming typically verdant terrain into yellowed lands.
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It turns out that heat waves can have a direct impact on how much workers produce and earn on a particular day.
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"Mortality increases sharply during heat waves, mostly because people don't drink enough to compensate for their increased fluid losses," Dr. Maughan said.
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With the summer heat waves still weeks away, the country's fire season is expected to be one of the worst on record.
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Heat waves, hurricanes, and other climate-change-related consequences like sea-level rise can exacerbate competition for natural resources and ethnic tensions.
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Heavy rainfall, which causes flooding, is expected to increase over the rest of the century, and heat waves will become more frequent.
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Warming temperatures also bring an increase in the frequency, intensity and duration of extreme weather events like storms, droughts and heat waves.
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The connection between global warming and heat waves is the best understood and least controversial of any type of extreme weather events.
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How it works: Marine heat waves can trigger large-scale changes in marine ecosystems, killing some species or forcing them to move.
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The big picture: Such heat waves could both threaten lives and dampen economic output in the region, where 400 million people live.
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"These findings highlight issues that may arise when [heat index] values are used to recommend fan use during heat waves," they wrote.
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The bureau says rainfall has been decreasing in the south and that there have been longer and more frequent marine heat waves.
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MELBOURNE, Australia — For millenniums, ecosystems have withstood fires, floods, heat waves, drought and even disease by adapting and rebuilding their biodiverse communities.
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California is suffering through the worst wildfires the state has seen — as well as drought, extreme heat waves and poor air quality.
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Some residents were reluctant to leave their homes during heat waves or mistakenly thought that cooling centers were just for homeless people.
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The study also looked at statistics that the department had compiled from newspaper reports and other sources about deaths during heat waves.
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Consequent heat waves, droughts and other events are increasingly tied to human migration and warfare by the Department of Defense and others.
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When I think of adulthood, I see my home being flooded, I see deathly heat waves, droughts, famine and intense, deadly storms.
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Climate scientists have warned for years that global warming would manifest itself in Australia through heat waves and worsened bush-fire seasons.
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Almost 90% of these respondents believe "extreme heat waves", "destruction of ecosystems" and "health impacted by pollution" will be aggravated in 2020.
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We haven't even hit one degree of warming yet, and are already facing record heat waves, intense wildfires, and rapidly melting ice.
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Winter storms and freezes caused $1 billion in insured losses last year, while wildfires, heat waves and drought produced another $1 billion.
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Rising temperatures are also helping to supercharge heat waves, like the one that roasted Europe in late July before migrating over Greenland.
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"The Arctic Ocean was extremely warm over the winter, and there was a very impressive series of heat waves," Dr. Serreze said.
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A panel of lawmakers also warned this week that "killer heat waves" would become more common in Britain because of climate change.
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The heat waves occur when the daily sea surface temperature exceeds the local 99th percentile of the temperature between 1982 and 2016.
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One, with Nadja Popovich, looks at the increasing number of ocean heat waves and the damage they are doing to marine life.
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With more heat energy in the system, everything's going to get crazier — more heat waves, more giant rainstorms, more droughts, more floods.
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Many experts consider 2°C of warming to be unacceptably high, increasing the risk of deadly heat waves, droughts, flooding, and extinctions.
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Scientists reported last year that climate change has made heat waves similar to the 2018 heat wave in Europe five times more likely.
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Why it matters: Heat waves are one of the clearest manifestations of global warming, and extended episodes can be particularly deadly and costly.
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When we moved it to a nearby reef and grew it in coral nurseries, the nubbins performed better and survived heat waves more.
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Here, Cornell University scientists crossbreed domesticated crops with their wild ancestors to propagate superhardy strains that better withstand droughts, heat waves, and freezes.
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In Germany, where prior heat waves have caused asphalt on highways to bulge, drivers should be extra vigilant, the nation's weather service advised.
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Climate scientists have warned that heat waves such as this one are becoming more frequent and increasingly severe because of the climate crisis.
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Other studies published in the same month also found links between global warming and heat waves in Australia and China, among other locations.
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Under Obama, the CDC began working with states and cities to address health problems related to climate change, like heat waves and pollution.
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Climate change will pose new threats to our environment and health, from rising sea levels to heat waves and more destructive natural disasters.
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"Prolonged heat waves and desert dust storms can render some regions uninhabitable, which will surely contribute to the pressure to migrate," he added.
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Data on direct crude consumption during the heat waves of July and August will only become available in September and October (tmsnrt.rs/2bz12lM).
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"The weather conditions are bouncing from extreme to extreme — from excessive wetness to record setting heat waves," said Brad Rippey, a USDA meteorologist.
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Why it matters: The way we experience global warming is largely through extreme events, from heat waves to heavy precipitation events to wildfires.
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While specific meteorological events are not caused by climate trends, extreme heat waves are predicted to become more common in a warming world.
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But temperatures are going up everywhere, not just in the Arctic; cities are especially hard-hit and heat waves are becoming more frequent.
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"The impacts of long-term global warming are already being felt — in coastal flooding, heat waves, intense precipitation and ecosystem change," Schmidt said.
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At 1.5-2 degrees C, a World Bank report predicts an increase in extreme weather events, deadly heat waves and severe water stress.
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India has experienced a 250 percent increase in the number of heat waves that killed more than 100 people between 1960 and 2009.
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Earth's Northern Hemisphere experienced a scorching summer, with 90-degree temperatures in Arctic reindeer country and heat waves toppling records around the globe.
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We've rounded up some of our favorite recipes for cool and refreshing summer salads to get you through all the impending heat waves.
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Recent fatal heat waves were a result of a 0.8 degree Celsius rise in temperatures from pre-industrial levels, the UK study said.
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As average temperatures rise, the frequency and duration of heat waves will go up, and so will deaths and illness associated with them.
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The Paris Agreement seeks to cut emissions to limit a rise in temperatures to avert heat waves, floods, storms and rising sea levels.
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This has become an annual problem at U.S. nuclear plants, especially during prolonged heat waves, which are when demand for electricity is highest.
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It also suffered by lower demand over the past two summer travel seasons, as major heat waves led many Britons to stay home.
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But it turns out that heat waves are often most dangerous not necessarily where it's hottest, but where it's hardest to cool off.
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Why it matters: Intense, long-lasting heat waves are one of the most robust signs of global warming, according to numerous scientific studies.
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What we're watching: The new study goes a long way toward attributing trends in marine heat waves and projecting what may lie ahead.
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"The overall trend over decades to more intense and more frequent heat waves is definitely a signal of global warming," Mr. Swain said.
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Mornings are chilly, but afternoons can get as hot as July heat waves — but blasting your AC all day is not the answer.
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The city of Geneva sent out 13,000 brochures to people over age 75 with advice on how to keep safe during heat waves.
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"Burning fossil fuels is making our weather worse right now," with greater likelihood of deadly heat waves, wildfires, droughts and floods, she said.
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Ocean warming: A new study has found that underwater heat waves are becoming more common, killing off the species that underpin many ecosystems.
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Occasional heat waves could push temperatures in Europe toward 120 degrees unless there is a dramatic slowdown in global warming trends, he said.
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Heat waves, extreme weather and other conditions can impact reliability, and a stronger transmission system is essential in helping us manage these challenges.
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Supercharged wildfires are devastating California, heat waves are killing more people and more crops, cities are struggling to adapt to strange new climates.
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As a member of World Weather Attribution, Dr. Karoly helped with the study of the recent heat waves, which took about two weeks.
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Heat waves now kill on average over 600 Americans each year, a figure expected to reach 11,000 by 2030 because of climate change.
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In Davos, executives tend to speak about automation as a natural phenomenon over which they have no control, like hurricanes or heat waves.
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The Indian Meteorological Department's seasonal outlook noted that the years that followed previous El Niños brought above-normal temperatures, including severe heat waves.
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Researchers compared spawning behavior in years prior to the marine heat waves that struck two-thirds of the reef in 2016 and 2017 against what happened immediately following the heat waves, also referred to as coral bleaching events for their tendency to turn corals a ghostly white as heat stress causes organisms to kick out symbiotic algae that gives corals their vibrant colors.
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The big picture: The heat waves, which have touched every state and territory in the country, began in November and have extended through January.
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The future is going to have stronger heat waves, more wildfires, heavier rain storms, and a greater number of very intense hurricanes, Titley says.
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As the Earth's climate undergoes a 1 to 3 degree Celsius warming over the next half-century, extreme heat waves will hit more frequently.
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As hot air from Africa gets pushed up north, meteorologists are expecting heat waves every couple of weeks through the end of the summer.
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Record-high temperatures were reported across the globe during the month as heat waves swept across parts of North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
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The summer of 2017 was the hottest on record across the state, and numerous record-shattering heat waves occurred that further dried out vegetation.
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Researchers evaluated the likely impact of more frequent and more severe heat waves on 741,22060 hydropower and 103,210 thermoelectric power plants around the world.
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Researchers evaluated the likely impact of more frequent and more severe heat waves on 24,515 hydropower and 1,427 thermoelectric power plants around the world.
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Already facing water shortages and blackouts due to droughts and heat waves, many developing countries are starting to reconsider where they get their power.
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The Australian Open is renowned for being plagued by heat-waves and for tournament organizers' much-criticized reluctance to suspend matches despite extreme conditions.
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Image: Wikimedia CommonsClimate change is bad—it's causing sea levels to rise, it's exacerbating heat waves, it's damaging coral reefs, the list goes on.
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Combined with prolonged heat waves, decades-long megadroughts, and windblown desert dust, these environmental conditions would be intolerable for humans, forcing many to migrate.
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Abroad, melting ice, heat waves, reef die-offs and desertification are signs of an international crisis that threatens the world's poorest people the most.
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These are often neighborhood libraries, recreation centers, and senior centers that are repurposed during heat waves to offer the public access to air conditioning.
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Heat waves have also increased in frequency, rising from an average of two per year to six per year in the last five decades.
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Already, scientists have become much less reticent in tying the likelihood and severity of certain extreme events directly to global warming, particularly heat waves.
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The agricultural sector is being hammered by weeks of heat waves that have scorched grazing land, forcing livestock owners to kill or sell animals.
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They're seeing the extreme weather events, the devastating forest fires, the heat waves and droughts and the winter storms that are growing more intense.
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Across the globe, it's as if summer weather is on steroids, with searing heat waves, deadly flash floods, and massive fires affecting many areas.
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The West Coast is on fire, the Northeast is flooding, drought is hitting the Midwest, and record-breaking heat waves are sweeping the nation.
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Since the 1960s the average number of heat waves in 50 major US cities has tripled, according to the US Global Change Research Program.
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And as heat waves become more common, hospitalizations and deaths due to changes in temperatures are poised to increase overall in the coming century.
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In 2017, 157 million vulnerable people were exposed to heat waves globally, and 153 billion hours of labor were lost due to heat exposure.
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Watts highlighted a recent study suggesting that the 251 heat waves across Europe were made twice as likely as a result of climate change.
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" Shepherd also said that we often overlook the impact that cities have on the intensity of heat waves, through the "urban heat island effect.
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Similarly above-average melting was observed in Switzerland — glaciers there lost 800 million tons of ice during the heat waves of June and July.
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Heat waves, for example, are expected to become more common, intense and longer because of the increase in heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere.
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Heat waves in recent years have become more intense, a consequence of global warming, he said, raising the possibility of ever-deadlier fire seasons.
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Alaska has been seeing urban heat waves, and a sharp rise in wildfires and coastal erosion, a trend that is expected to further exacerbate.
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From coral reefs to kelp forests to sea grass beds, researchers found that these heat waves were destroying the framework of many ocean ecosystems.
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That goal, which scientists have identified as vital to avert catastrophic heat waves and other extreme weather events, is nowhere close to being met.
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But plans written so far are insufficient, raising the risks of heat waves, floods, the collapse of polar ice caps and other potential calamities.
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Again, it will mean more heat waves, more crop losses, more water shortages, more inundated coastal cities, more disease and conflict, millions more suffering.
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With summer heat waves rolling in and the holiday weekend on the horizon, it's the perfect time to try out the sober curious trend.
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Climate change increases the frequency and intensity of droughts, flooding and heat waves, which can irreversibly destroy natural ecosystems and lead to food shortages.
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"The science is showing that the likelihood and the magnitude of these heat waves is likely to be exacerbated by climate change," he said.
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"When you have these heat waves, the residents in the area of course are using more air-conditioning than they would otherwise," he said.
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Much of India will eventually become uninhabitable, but killing heat waves and droughts will take a deadly toll well before that point is reached.
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Even 2 degrees warming above pre-industrial levels will have severe consequences for sea level rise, heat waves, ice melt, and extreme weather events.
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At the beginning of the century, scientists were only just starting to link climate change to individual disasters, mostly to droughts and heat waves.
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A recent study found that 30 percent of people worldwide are already subject to lethal heat waves for at least 20 days a year.
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Look at it, and almost immediately the entire surface starts to quaver, as if heat waves were rippling off a bonfire on the floor.
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In 27 and 260, California lost a huge chunk of its supply of natural gas (Aliso Canyon) just as it faced record heat waves.
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More intense and longer-lasting heat waves are one of the clearest effects of a warming planet due largely to human emissions of greenhouse gases.
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As heat waves are rolling in, staying cool and remaining protected from the sun is very important not only for us but, for our pets.
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Yet a survey by the WMO in 2015 found that around one-third of countries still lacked criteria for defining and reacting to heat waves.
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The influences of climate science on extreme weather have been made very apparent this summer, as rising temperatures have enhanced heat waves and hotter weather.
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When heat waves strike, the elderly are most vulnerable, and the toll is highest when the heat and humidity don't ease off much after sundown.
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The increase in observed heat waves might actually be due to natural temperature swings in the ocean, as opposed to a consequence of global warming.
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As a result, the United States and rest of the planet are being hit by extraordinary heat waves, droughts, floods, forest fires and extreme storms.
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Heat waves, which scientists believe are already being exacerbated by climate change, can cause sunburns, dehydration, and heat stroke, according to a NOAA fact sheet.
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In late January, Richmond, California, became the latest city to file a suit, listing damage from sea level rise, droughts, heat waves, and extreme rainfall.
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Drought, heat waves and other climate-related disasters may be fueling armed conflicts in countries where ethnic groups are sharply divided, scientists in Germany said.
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Many of those nations are already suffering from extreme weather, including a rash of heat waves last week throughout the Arabian Gulf and North Africa.
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These increases in temperatures are already unleashing changes in weather that are dangerous to human health and wellbeing: droughts, heat waves, stronger storms, and wildfires.
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"Such intense and widespread heat waves carry the signature of man-made climate change," according to Johannes Cullmann, director of WMO's climate and water department.
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The threat is especially pronounced in the Northeast, where "the frequency, intensity, and duration of heat waves is expected to increase" due to climate change.
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They'll look at how best to handle "fuel management," or the removal of flammable plant matter desiccated by climate change-powered heat waves and drought.
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Bloomberg reports that a slowing jet stream might be causing longer-lasting storms and heat waves, according to a study published in Nature this year.
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The analysis used methods that have also been used to analyze other extreme weather and climate events, including record heat waves and extreme precipitation events.
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Extreme weather patterns exacerbated by changing climate trends include higher rates of coastal storm damage and more frequent and severe droughts, wildfires and heat waves.
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It was so hot that day, the heat waves radiated off the ground and the air was heavy with the odor of dusty cow shit.
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Temperatures are forecast to rise by 2.53 degree Celsius on average in France with heat waves expected in some regions over the next 24 hours.
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Verhoosel blamed a combination of dry spells, heat waves and flooding for the new crisis, which the U.S. State Department said was the government's fault.
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Any warming beyond that target, which is looking less and less achievable, drastically increases humankind's exposure to deadly heat waves, flooding, diseases, drought, and famine.
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As heat waves become more severe, parents and coaches "may not realize that the children are more exposed and therefore more vulnerable," Dr. Sarfaty said.
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The news this week that California is facing record-shattering heat waves, and already on the verge of yet another drought, illustrates this point powerfully.
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Those threats range from heavier rainfall and deadlier heat waves to increased coastal flooding, transformed agricultural growing patterns and potentially severe reductions in economic growth.
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Studies show that climate change is already increasing the odds and severity of some types of extreme weather events, particularly heat waves and precipitation extremes.
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The panel, in a report last year, predicted that the number of heat waves in the city would double by 83, with more extreme weather.
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The climate crisis is playing out before our eyes in ways it never has before, with unprecedented heat waves, flooding, and storms around the globe.
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Warming temperatures globally, rising sea levels, more frequent heat waves and increased numbers of forest fires are evidence of the changing climate, the report stated.
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Scientists believe these heat waves are at least twice as likely to occur because of climate change, according to a study from World Weather Attribution.
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In 85033 Australia also suffered one of its worst heat waves ever recorded, with temperatures reaching 120 degrees Fahrenheit in many parts of the country.
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In the last three months, the state's extreme wildfires and heat waves have endangered millions of residents' health and safety, and killed at least eight.
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Heat waves paralyze cities worldwide with record-setting temps Major cities across the globe in June experienced some of the warmest temperatures in recorded history.
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According to Dr. Cope, cases in Minnesota and other places have followed heat waves or a number of days where the temperature was above 20133.
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Consider some of the records that have been set so far during what now ranks as one of Southern California's all-time hottest heat waves.
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Irrigation tends to lower air temperatures, but increase evaporation — with the net effect of making heat waves more intense and intolerable for the human body.
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So another record-setting year will likely lead to more heat waves around the world, along with drought and drying vegetation, contributing to massive wildfires.
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As the climate changes because of greenhouse gas emissions, heat waves around the world are occurring more often, and they are hotter and last longer.
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Heat waves are bound to get more intense and more frequent as emissions rise, scientists have concluded, threatening basic necessities like food supply and electricity.
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More people will die as heat waves become more common, the scientists say, and a hotter climate will also lead to more outbreaks of disease.
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Studies have shown that the increase in the frequency of heat waves and the rise in global temperatures is symptomatic of human-caused climate change.
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And with summer heat waves potentially becoming more dangerous in the coming decades, the potential for loss of life will likely only grow from here.
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That's because heat waves are increasing in both frequency and duration, with the highest level of maritime heat wave activity occurring in the North Atlantic.
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Climate change is acting as a force multiplier for wildfires, heat waves, sea-level rise, infectious disease and other impacts that increase federal budget costs.
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Southeast -- 61% of major cities are exhibiting some aspects of worsening heat waves, which is a higher percentage than any other region of the country.
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" He said that they knew how to deal with anomalies, but that if intense heat waves became permanent, "We'll have to plant bananas and pineapples.
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Several vineyards have sprouted up around the Negev Desert to study how grapes can grow in a world with more frequent droughts and heat waves.
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While such measures can help, they won't be enough in the long term to offset ever more extreme heat waves, scientists and climate activists say.
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The Australia experience suggests that climate denial will persist come hell or high water — that is, through devastating heat waves and catastrophic storm surges alike.
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Between 1997 and 2016, more than 520,000 people died in over 11,000 extreme weather events including storms, floods and heat waves worldwide, the index said.
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The number of people projected to experience heat waves, water stress and other climate events by 2050 rises sharply as the global mean temperature increases.
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In fact, it turns out heat waves tend to be more dangerous in cooler climates, where high temperatures are a larger deviation from the norm.
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The apocalyptic changes that are coming — bigger storms, higher seas, longer heat waves, more insect-born disease — remain, for now, a task for the imagination.
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"Increasing hot and dry conditions will mean more droughts and heat waves affecting the koalas' habitat," Dr Valentina Mella, a postdoctoral researcher, said in a statement.
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Current government pledges to cut emissions are too weak to achieve the 2C goal, meant to avert more droughts, more powerful storms, downpours and heat waves.
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Weather refers to conditions that occur locally and over short periods of time -- from hours to days -- such as rain, snow, heat waves and cold snaps.
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The long-term global warming trend has exacted a severe toll from extreme heat, with eight of the world's 10 deadliest heat waves occurring since 1997.
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The album is a collection of jams that move with a languidness that feels appropriate for the heat waves covering most of the country this summer.
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The heat, particularly the relentless heat waves that struck the Golden State in September, played a crucial role in setting the stage for the devastating fires.
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Climate change is already having an impact on our health, by exposing people to dangerous heat waves and more extreme weather, according to a new study.
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Now that the heat waves have passed (fingers crossed), better days are ahead... or, at the very least, a better, more temperate end to the season.
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Heat waves are one of the surest signs of human-caused global warming, with studies showing a sharply increased risk of such events around the world.
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Since 2014, researchers at the World Weather Attribution project have been publishing assessments of heat waves, droughts, floods, and other events often weeks after they occur.
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His team estimated a loss of more than three billion tons of cereal production from 1964 to 2007 as a result of droughts and heat waves.
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Like all of today's toppled high-temperature records, Earth's relentlessly warming climate doesn't create heat waves or warm weather events — but it boosts or enhances them.
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Lives at risk as the climate warms Experts say that heat waves like this one are only made worse by the ongoing impact of climate crisis.
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The threat is especially pronounced in the Northeast, where "the frequency, intensity, and duration of heat waves is expected to increase" due to the climate crisis.
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Adding relevance, researchers increasingly say that greenhouse gas emissions have raised the risks of individual extreme events, from heat waves in Europe to downpours in India.
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Marine heat waves, defined as at least five days with temperatures far above average, are caused by heat from blazing sunshine and by shifting warm currents.
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Plus, these events are becoming increasingly common as pollutants pour into waters and climate change intensifies heat waves and the water cycle of drought and deluge.
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In 20163, for instance, heat waves and drought in California led to the worst wildfires in state history and the bankruptcy of utility company PG&E.
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The Australian government appears determined to suppress the climate movement, even as heat waves, drought and fires make the country's vulnerabilities to climate change ever clearer.
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Heat waves "consistent with what we expect from climate change" scorched Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, France and Britain with new national temperature records last week.
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PG&E's history of constantly replacing hundreds of residential electricity transformers that fail during heat waves instead of installing new technology is a case in point.
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Using data from 783 lethal heat waves in 164 cities and across 36 countries, the researchers discovered a common threshold where the heat wave becomes deadly.
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Climate change is leading to higher temperatures and record-setting heat waves, drier and more arid conditions in the Southwest, and more frequent and severe droughts.
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Today's 'heat waves' will become ongoing temperatures, with people unable to survive long-term in the kinds of heat we now regularly see around the world.
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The body of evidence shows that the world will face longer, more intense heat waves as average temperatures go up, and that they will be deadly.
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"The impacts of long-term global warming are already being felt — in coastal flooding, heat waves, intense precipitation and ecosystem change," said Schmidt, in a statement.
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Much of the state of Florida would be lost to the sea, and extreme heat waves would become the norm rather than the exception each summer.
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Without a drastic course correction, we will face deadly heat waves, rampant wildfires, food insecurity, water shortages, violent storms, rising sea levels and disappearing coral reefs.
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The MIT study shows that the risk of deadly heat waves is significantly increased because of intensive irrigation in this relatively dry but highly fertile region.
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While the current heat continues to cause problems for Australians now, scientists warn that without coordinated action on climate change, heat waves will become more likely.
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The study, published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change, looked at the impact of marine heat waves on the diversity of life in the ocean.
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Even seabirds did not emerge from marine heat waves unscathed, most likely because their food sources either died off or moved in response to the warming.
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As the climate changes because of greenhouse gas emissions, heat waves around the world are occurring more often, and they are hotter and last longer. Prague.
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The government has warned that one of the country's longest and most intense heat waves in decades might continue with the delayed arrival of monsoon rains.
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In a year marked by a surge of extreme weather like heat waves, hurricanes and wildfires, we used explanatory video to help explain the underlying science.
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He stressed that there is no question that warming temperatures have led to severe droughts, meaning more dry fuel, as well as more intense heat waves.
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The visible heat waves and gray puffs of smoke slowly lifting toward me from the street were sometimes so thick that they rendered taxi markings illegible.
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INTERNATIONAL An article on Tuesday about record heat waves around the world this year referred incorrectly to an instance in which Riaz Soomro's father fell ill.
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In July, floods and landslides killed more than 200 people in the west, followed by heat waves that took an additional 130 lives across the country.
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The researchers found that, compared with the period from 82.83 to 1984, southern and western India experienced 50 percent more heat waves from 1985 to 2009.
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In Texas, as in other parts of the world, that seemingly small average warming leads to a much greater chance of extreme heat waves, scientists say.
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Several heat waves have been linked to human-caused climate change, and many more are likely to scorch temperate zones like northern Europe in the future.
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Unless countries develop more ambitious plans, the experts say, the world could ultimately suffer profound consequences, including debilitating heat waves, food shortages and fast-rising seas.
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Strange clouds belonging "as much to the earth as to the sky," constantly "smeared and befogged with heat waves," provides the narrative with a sultry feel.
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And heat waves in the ocean are expected to become 173 to 50 times more frequent this century, depending on how much greenhouse-gas emissions increase.
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While the government in Britain has acknowledged the growing risk of deaths connected to heat waves, not much headway has been made in mitigating the dangers.
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Failure to heed these warnings and take drastic action to reverse emissions means we will continue to witness deadly and catastrophic heat waves, storms and pollution.
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Catastrophic sea-level rise, heat waves that make major population centers uninhabitable, and more are now looking more likely than not, and sooner rather than later.
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That includes island nations like the Bahamas facing rising seas and fiercer storms like Hurricane Dorian, or countries in Southeast Asia suffering from extreme heat waves.
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Greenhouse gas emissions, by warming the atmosphere, can enhance drought in places that are normally dry, "ripening conditions for wildfires and heat waves," the researchers say.
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Heat waves can be linked to climate change in several ways: Increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hold more of the sun's heat, raising temperatures globally.
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Florida, by contrast, could face major losses, as deadly heat waves flare up in the summer and rising sea levels eat away at valuable coastal properties.
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For the disciples of global warming, in 2030 summers (years) there have been 225 heat waves as bad or worse than current-this has happened b21!
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So far, though, the biggest disruptive impact of climate change in most peoples' lives has come through extreme events, from heat waves to floods and wildfires.
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Mr. Srivastava said that imminent storms would bring down temperatures in some areas, but that heat waves might pick up again until the monsoon rains arrive.
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As average temperatures rise, heat waves strike and rainfall disappears, the soil and plants are drying out faster, raising the long-term risk of wildfires, scientists say.
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But they also pointed out current deadly impacts from the 1°C, or 1.8°F, of warming so far — including more severe and longer lasting heat waves.
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Deaths from extreme heat seem to be on the rise — the peaks below correspond to heat waves in Russia in 2010 and across southern Europe in 2003.
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The deadliest heat waves tend to be both intense and prolonged, with very warm nights that don't give people without air conditioning a chance to cool off.
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Days after Exxon's petition, city councilors in Los Angeles introduced a motion to prepare a similar lawsuit, citing the recent devastating wildfires, heat waves, floods, and mudslides.
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Between the lines, via Axios science editor Andrew Freedman: Heat waves of exceptional magnitude and duration are one of the clearest manifestations of human-caused global warming.
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Why it matters: The heat waves, and ongoing severe flooding in northeastern Queensland, are the types of events climate scientists have tied to human-caused climate change.
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Repeated, record heat waves sent temperatures soaring into the triple-digits as late as October, drying out vegetation that is now serving as fuel for the fires.
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The consequences of increasing average temperatures, rising seas, more rainfall and heat waves, and drier forests that fuel wildfires have already proved to be costly and deadly.
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Heat waves are one of the most certain impacts of human-caused global warming, since as average temperatures increase, the likelihood of heat extremes jumps even more.
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"Only the rapid reduction of greenhouse gases paired with large economic investment in adaptation will help us escape the health risks of heat waves," the paper concludes.
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Heat waves caused by a further increase of 0.7 degrees - if the world sticks to its 1.5 degree Celsius limit - could be even more severe, it warned.
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The North China Plain, which is home to about 400 million residents, could see the deadliest heat waves on the planet by the end of the century.
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Summer temperatures in the US will keep rising, and much of the western and central US will see a reduction of soil moisture, which exacerbates heat waves.
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"But if we don't do anything, we are going to have [more than] 70% of the population affected by these heat waves, which is terrible," said Mora.
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Researchers said that as the earth warms, the U.S. should expect intensifying heat waves and more powerful hurricanes, declining snowpacks and more extensive droughts in the West.
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This summer dozens of people have died in wildfires and heat waves from the US to Asia, giving the world an insight into what could lie ahead.
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Most longer-term, seasonal forecasts, which look at weather probabilities a month or more in the future, do not focus on heat waves or other extreme events.
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During June, severe heat waves swept across North America, including a deadly event in Quebec that featured the hottest temperature on record in Montreal on June 29.
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This is already happening in the American West, where a clear trend toward sizzling heat waves and larger wildfires and a longer fire season has been detected.
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Scientists link the new frequency and intensity of the state's fires to climate change, which is also a driver of record-breaking heat waves around the world.
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Climatologists say that it is hard to connect any single weather event to climate change, but that heat waves and extreme swings in precipitation are expected effects.
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As Britain and Ireland have sweltered, heat waves have also struck Scandinavia, the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada, the Caucasus and southern Russia, and other regions.
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Because while you may not be suffering yet, climate change is here, and it's already killing people by way of supercharged wildfires and hurricanes and heat waves.
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In the first few months of 2016, severe droughts and heat waves spread across much of southern Africa, triggering local food and water shortages that affected millions.
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Consider that extreme heat waves or cold snaps claim more lives every year than many other "traditional" disasters, and plan to take care of one another accordingly.
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Scientists say the possible new record (final data will be released Monday) would be the result of the intense heat waves that have punished Europe this summer.
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The spike in temperatures has been linked to the rising frequency and intensity of heat waves, wildfires, hurricanes, and floods — events that all broke records in 2019.
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In fact, in 2016 and 2017, successive marine heat waves killed off around half of the coral on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest reef habitat.
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These marine heat waves typically occur when weather causes the ocean to absorb more heat than usual, or if certain conditions prevent the ocean from releasing heat.
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That was because heat waves were increasing in both frequency and in duration, with the highest level of maritime heat wave activity occurring in the North Atlantic.
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Marine heat waves, she said, are an "emerging issue" and this is the first time that the United Nations body has dedicated so much study to it.
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Ocean heat waves are growing more common, and it's likely extreme El Niño and La Niña systems will form, leading to more extreme weather around the globe.
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The studies are the latest in a series of analyses that search for the fingerprints of climate change on individual weather events like storms or heat waves.
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According to a study on the 20193 heat events, we've entered "a new climate regime," featuring "extraordinary" heat waves on a scale and ferocity not seen before.
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While the heat waves have continued, the number of immediate heat deaths has significantly declined since then — 375 were recorded in 2017, and only 20 in 2018.
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As greenhouse gas emissions lead to a rise in global temperatures, heat waves around the world are occurring more often, and they are hotter and last longer.
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In March, Indian forecasters warned that heat waves are getting longer and more intense — and the periodic Pacific Ocean warming trend known as El Niño hasn't helped.
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New Delhi (CNN)At least 36 people have died this summer in one of India's longest heat waves in recent history, according to the country's disaster management officials.
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With imagery of the Arizona desert already planted into my imagination, the lilac surface stretches out, at times oscillating like heat waves on sand baked by the sun.
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We've been seeing the impacts, in the form of hotter and longer-lasting heat waves as well as sea-level rise and more frequent coastal flooding, for years.
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Along with fires, unprecedented heat waves have smothered California this summer, shattering records in normally temperate northern cities like San Francisco, which hit 106 degrees Fahrenheit on Friday.
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The overall rise and often extreme temperatures, coupled with little to no precipitation, led to lengthy heat waves in regions worldwide and put some cities in a drought.
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But he cautions that this data set (1982-2016) covers too short a time period to say that the uptick in heat waves is due to climate change.
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Droughts, heat waves and other "climate disasters" enhance the risk of war and conflict in parts of the world with "high ethnic diversity," according to a new study.
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Premature U.S. deaths from heat waves can be expected to rise more than 27,000 per year by 2100, from a 1990 baseline, one scenario in the study said.
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Australia's scorching and widespread heat waves throughout this summer propelled the national average temperature to a new all-time high for the season, according to its weather bureau.
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The first major attribution studies were done on heat waves, like the ones that killed tens of thousands of people in Europe in 2003 and Russia in 2010.
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Some marine wildlife is mobile and could in theory swim to cooler waters, but ocean heat waves often strike large areas more rapidly than fish move, he said.
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Soon enough, the rest of us will be as well in our own ways, be it heat waves or sea level rise or melting ice or monster storms.
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France's weather service also made the link, issuing a warning that without serious carbon dioxide reductions, heat waves could become more intense and frequent than in the past.
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For example, by understanding how marine heat waves change weather, scientists were able to predict the 2016/2017 Somalian drought, and mitigate some of the loss of life.
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As I logged mile after mile in heat waves, driving rain or snowstorms, I would listen to that same sermon on "dreams" over and over and over again.
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The foundational idea is that weather patterns carry in masses of hot summer air, but the added heat produced by human-caused climate change amplifies modern heat waves.
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Over 22 percent of the heat trapped on Earth ultimately collects in the oceans — and repetitive marine heat waves have already proven dire to vast swathes of coral.
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The scientists said marine heat waves were "emerging as forceful agents of disturbance" that could "restructure entire marine ecosystems", disrupting livelihoods and food supplies for millions of people.
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"Every time we visit the producers they're always reporting issues of drought or excessive rain or weird heat waves, and that is definitely having an effect," says McLaughlin.
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While it can be difficult to attribute some weather events, like hurricanes, to human-caused climate change, the case is much clearer when it comes to heat waves.
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West African nations are expected to face severe food shortages as heat waves cause crop production to plummet, and low-lying Pacific islands are threatened by rising seas.
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Mr. Obama scrutinized reports like the 2014 National Climate Assessment, which tied climate change to events like flooding in Miami and longer, hotter heat waves in the Southwest.
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Carbon dioxide is the main man-made greenhouse gas blamed for trapping heat, stoking disruptions to world water and food supplies with heat waves, floods, storms and droughts.
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Extreme heat waves, such as the several torching the Northern Hemisphere this week are frequently cited as one of the most direct effects of man-made climate change.
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Human-caused climate change has been shown to contribute to rising seas, stronger storms, deadlier heat waves, extinction in the natural world, crop failures and more severe drought.
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"The land is warming much quicker than the ocean," he said, highlighting the increased number of heat waves people experience today and the extreme vulnerability of older people.
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Europe also grappled with two separate heat waves this summer, which has broken all-time temperature records in multiple countries and killed at least nine people in total.
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Scientists have linked global warming to accelerating sea-level rise, shrinking sea ice, glacier retreat and extreme events like heat waves, the U.N. agency noted in its report.
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The earth's climate has already warmed 22 degree Celsius from preindustrial levels, unleashing a cascade of super-charged heat waves, wildfires, hurricanes, storms, water shortages, migrations, and conflicts.
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Why it matters: These are the deadliest wildfires in Greece since 2007, when three consecutive heat waves resulted in more than 3,000 fires across the country, killing 84.
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The negative effect on fertility was not confined to beetles that directly experienced the heat waves—their offspring also suffered from higher rates of infertility and shortened lifespans.
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So 200 million pounds could require as much as 54 billion liters of water, which means droughts or heat waves can have devastating consequences on the avocado industry.
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The planet has already warmed by 22017 degree Celsius since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, which has caused rising seas and more frequent and intense heat waves.
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The number of heat waves in France has doubled in the past 34 years and is expected to double again by 623, while their intensity has also increased.
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Weather catastrophes from floods to hurricanes to heat waves have cost the United States $1.1 trillion since 1980, and the report warns that such phenomena may become common.
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Scientists generally agree that algae blooms are getting worse and more widespread, and are exacerbated by the warmer water, heat waves and extreme weather associated with climate change.
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Issues like heat waves, hurricanes and flooding are interconnected, and they might continue to come in combination if the effects of climate change are unchecked, the research suggested.
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But the pattern of heat waves being more extreme and expanding into normally cooler regions is in keeping with what we expect to see as the climate warms.
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Now the consequences are being felt: a three-month-long flood in the Florida Keys, wildfires across a record hot and dry Australia, deadly heat waves in Europe.
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Each of those notches on the global thermometer, when unpacked across this vast planet of ours, has far-reaching impacts on ice melt, drought, heat waves, and extinctions.
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While portions of the US might be mired in a deep freeze, many other parts of the planet are seeing record-breaking heat waves (like Australia last week).
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In some cases, it will be oceans inundating coastal cities or widespread crop failures or deadly heat waves or disease outbreaks — or some fiendish combination of the above.
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Northern India, with its expanses of farmland and desert, is more accustomed to heat waves than dangerous cold fronts, both of which have been linked to climate change.
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He listed this year's disasters that he said were fueled by climate change: heat waves and floods in India, "unprecedented" wildfires in Australia and hurricanes around the globe.
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But the nation has suffered devastating droughts and deadly heat waves in recent years, putting an unprecedented strain on water supplies and boosting competition for the scare resources.
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The summer of 2019 had brought no relief; July was the hottest month on record for the planet, with scorching heat waves setting record-high temperatures across Europe.
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And this "climate attribution" science helps the public answer questions about how climate change is making storms, heat waves, floods and the like different -- and often more dangerous.
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Ocean heat waves are growing more common, and it's likely more extreme El Niño and La Niña systems will form, leading to more extreme weather around the globe.
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While casualties resulting from heat waves receive wide publicity, deaths from bouts of extreme cold rarely do, and those resulting from ordinary winter weather warrant virtually no attention.
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Heat waves will likely become more frequent, with annual daily highs at airports worldwide projected to go up 7 to 14 degrees by 2080, according to the study.
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"The observations show ... similarly frequent heat waves would have likely been about 4C cooler a century ago," said the report by the World Weather Attribution group of scientists.
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But if you start talking about weather variability," like warmer winters or heat waves, "or if on the coast you talk about sea level rise it doesn't stop immediately.
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With extreme weather here to stay, from recent heat waves to unseasonable Thanksgiving cold snaps, drastic temperature swings will continue to wreak havoc on the U.S.' antiquated electricity grid.
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Under Obama, the CDC started looking at climate change as a public health issue, working with states and cities to address health problems related to heat waves and pollution.
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Scientists have said a U.S. withdrawal from the deal could speed up the effects of global climate change, leading to heat waves, floods, droughts, and more frequent violent storms.
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Heat waves emanate from an exhaust pipe of a city transit bus as it passes an American flag hung outside the Los Angeles County Hall of Justice in 2013.
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The most serious effects are heat waves and water scarcity, and we are currently coming to the end of one of the worst El Niño periods in two decades.
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"It's now much more common to have 'cooling centers' in large cities gripped by heat waves," noted Bob Henson, a meteorologist at Weather Underground, in an email to Gizmodo.
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The research found heat waves are becoming more frequent, more prolonged, and more severe, with the number of heat wave days tripling in the past couple of years studied.
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A key point to remember is that while we talk about climate change in terms of averages, buried in those averages are extremes: more frequent and intense heat waves.
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Georgia Tech climate scientist Kim Cobb said the link between climate change and fires isn&apost as strong as it is with heat waves, but it is becoming clearer.
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The dangers include a proliferation of heat waves with record-high temperatures that kill vulnerable people and the spreading of tropical diseases such as the Zika virus, he said.
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Even so, Seattle reached a peak temperature of 94 degrees Fahrenheit, and Portland, unaccustomed to severe heat waves, stewed in a smoky, hazy 105-degree day on Aug. 3.
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Heat waves are the deadliest form of extreme weather, responsible for more deaths in the US every year than the combined effects of hurricanes, lightning, tornadoes, earthquakes, and floods.
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In recent decades, a decline in monsoon rainfalls and a rise in extreme heat waves has resulted in severe droughts, lower agricultural yields, and reduced access to fresh water.
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But just this week, a report from the Environmental Audit Committee in the United Kingdom warned that deadly heat waves are projected to become a bigger problem going forward.
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Unfortunately, many of these parts of the world are less able to adapt to worsening heat waves as well, with limited access to air conditioning and unreliable electrical grids.
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Countries would have to do far more to curb fossil fuel use and deforestation to avoid the droughts, superstorms, deadly heat waves and coastal floods associated with global warming.
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The accord seeks to limit rising temperatures that have been linked to increasing economic damage from desertification, extinctions of animals and plants, heat waves, floods and rising sea levels.
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During the decade ending in 2010, they said, 136,000 deaths were caused by heat waves, an increase of 2,300 percent over the 6,000 deaths recorded in the previous decade.
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Heat waves are said to be especially dangerous and deadly early in the summer season because people haven't had time to adapt to the higher temperatures, Weather Underground notes.
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While portions of the US might be mired in a deep-freeze, many other parts of the planet are seeing record-breaking heat waves (like Australia at the moment).
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Some heat waves have been especially lethal, like the one in Chicago in 1995 when more than 700 people, most of them old or infirm, died over five days.
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Last month, almost 200 governments agreed a deal in Paris meant as a turning point from fossil fuels, blamed for causing more heat waves, downpours and rising sea levels.
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He cited the "extreme heat waves, wildfires, storms, and floods" that are already "leaving a trail of death and devastation" around the world as portents of runaway climate change.
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We must reckon with the likelihood of even worse storms, heat waves, fires, and droughts as the Earth warms — because scientists expect even this "new normal" to get worse.
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Recent studies have shown that the frequency of marine heat waves has increased in the past several decades, but a lot has remained unknown about these events, until now.
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According to France's national weather agency, the number of heat waves in the country has doubled in the past 34 years and is expected to double again by 2050.
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Amid heat waves, wildfires, droughts and Arctic ice melt, President Trump has taken aim at the two central pillars of his predecessor's ambitious efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
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As we pump more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and the Earth traps more heat, scientists predict that the severity and frequency of heat waves will continue to increase.
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An earlier study by some of the same researchers found that, from 1925 to 2016, marine heat waves became, on average, 34 percent more frequent and 17 percent longer.
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Read: Record heat waves might have made July the hottest month on record Mottram said Greenland's warm weather is set to continue for the next few days, perhaps longer.
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A paper published in a respected scientific journal describes the effects of climate change on heat waves, wildfires, sea level rise, hurricanes, flooding, drought and shortages of clean water.
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Tree leaves also absorb and filter local air pollution — a crucial benefit, since heat waves can worsen urban smog, sending people to the hospital with asthma and other illnesses.
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Most of the debate is about the extent of those impacts — how high the seas may rise, or how intense and frequent heavy storms or heat waves may be.
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Then, back-to-back marine heat waves in 2016 and 2017 killed about half of the corals on the Great Barrier Reef, along with many others around the world.
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Several heat waves have been linked to human-caused climate change — and in the years ahead, they say, many more are likely to scorch temperate zones like northern Europe.
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The 28-nation EU, where floods and heat waves of recent years have been increasingly linked to climate change, says it wants to be at the forefront of action.
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Scientists have warned that global warming of 2 degrees Celsius will result in more frequent and dangerous heat waves, rising sea levels and declining crop yields around the world.
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The study also suggests that measurements analyzing humankind's role in producing incidents such as heat waves and floods could underestimate the contribution people make to such extreme weather events.
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These bushfires have been amplified by profoundly parched forests, brush, and grasslands — dried-out by a triple-whammy of record-breaking heat waves combined with drought and unrelenting winds.
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Not long ago it was all too common to read articles about heat waves, floods and droughts that seemed to go to great lengths to avoid mentioning climate change.
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Such consequences would include high amounts of sea level rise that could swallow coastal cities worldwide, to sharp upticks in heat waves, floods, and drought events in many areas.
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Ocean heat waves are not only destroying this natural wonder but compromising its ability to recover -- raising the risk of "widespread ecological collapse," a separate study this year found.
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It repeatedly points out that heat waves are predictable, sometimes days and weeks in advance, and that city officials, and, sometimes private employers, can take steps to save lives.
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It repeatedly points out that heat waves are predictable, sometimes days and weeks in advance, and that city officials, and, sometimes private employers, can take steps to save lives.
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These temperature increases have led to an increase in droughts, heat waves, floods and biodiversity losses and make the chaos of 2 or 3 degrees' additional warming seem inconceivable.
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Here's what we learned from the heat waves, hurricanes, wildfires, and droughts that befell America last year, and the lessons they offer for how to prepare for the future.
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Intense heat waves and rising seas have taken a toll around the world as atmospheric carbon dioxide continues to rise to levels unseen in the history of human civilization.
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But buried in these averages are extreme weather events — heat waves, severe rainstorms, and droughts — that will be much more damaging and dangerous than the smaller shifts in averages.
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The predatory sunflower sea star, whose limbs can stretch 4 feet across, is rapidly disappearing due to infectious disease outbreaks worsened by marine heat waves, a comprehensive new study found.
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Given the more frequent heat waves and dire future predictions, capping a rise in global temperatures could very well turn out to be India's most important challenge in decades ahead.
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European public health bodies are trying to prevent a repeat of last year, when heat waves resulted in deaths in Spain and Portugal and drought conditions in Germany and Sweden.
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For utilities, TES can alleviate the grid stress caused by air conditioning demand by shifting it to off-peak times, reducing the possibility for brown- or blackouts during heat waves.
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In fact, the US is already experiencing rising temperatures, more flooding in coastal zones, and an increase in the number of extreme weather events like heat waves and heavy rain.
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I've got days of heat waves ahead of me, and I'm going to need to start the day with a black tea mixed with refreshing, tart lemonade for awhile still.
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By the end of this century, "midday temperatures" on warm days could reach a staggering 50 degrees Celsius, with heat waves potentially occurring 10 times more than they do today.
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All efforts to fight climate change face the money test: Are the benefits of stopping global warming — and avoiding sea level rise, heat waves, and wildfires — greater than the costs?
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Climate scientists warn that heat waves that are now considered exceptional events will become the norm in coming decades if emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases are not sharply curtailed.
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In any case, we can expect to see plenty more signs of a changing climate in 2017, from retreating Arctic sea ice to extreme droughts to record-smashing heat waves.
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Those increasingly higher levels are helping to destabilize parts of Antarctica and Greenland, raise sea levels around the world, and cause more frequent and intense heat waves in many regions.
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"There will be more and more conflicts," he said, over defining policies to curb local air pollution and help wider aims to limit droughts, mudslides, heat waves and rising seas.
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Thousands More Americans Will Die in Heat Waves Unless We Meet Paris Climate GoalsThe world is heating up and no one is safe, even in the richest country on Earth.
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Researchers found that deaths caused by heat waves in India more than doubled after the country's temperature increased by nearly one degree Fahrenheit since 1960, the New York Times reports.
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Scientists warn that the world should expect more scorching heat waves due to climate change and that current temperature highs are in line with predictions made over a decade ago.
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And number three, our computer climate simulations indicate that the greenhouse effect is already large enough to begin to affect the probability of extreme events such as summer heat waves.
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The group's research also suggests that heat waves will become more frequent and annual maximum daily temperatures at airports will increase by 4-8 C (7.2-14.4 F) by 2080.
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Heat waves often have natural causes but the report said "there is growing confidence that the observed intensification is due to human activities", led by the burning of fossil fuels.
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A report by Australia's Climate Council estimated that in 753, nearly 3,500 people died in India and Pakistan from heat waves - defined as three exceptionally hot days in a row.
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"When shooting from so far away and trying to zoom in, the heat waves coming off the city caused a dramatic loss in detail and sharpness," he told The Verge.
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A study released in August found that deaths from heat waves could increase by up to 2,000 percent in certain parts of the world by 2080 because of climate change.
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As extreme weather events like killer heat waves and hurricanes become more common, all levels of governments must develop common sense plans to better protect those whom they lock up.
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As scientific projections of the effects of climate change become more robust, the threats posed by extreme storms, catastrophic flooding, heat waves, and droughts have gotten clearer and more frightening.
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That would increase the likelihood of extreme drought in the Mediterranean, reduce rainfall across Southern Africa, and causing longer and more frequent heat waves in many parts of the globe.
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As Mass points out, accuracy is everything, often the difference between life and death, given that extreme weather — tornadoes, flash floods, heat waves — kills more than 500 Americans each year.
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Because there have been significant changes in extreme weather that have large impact—hurricanes, heat waves, and floods—that it doesn't make any sense to rebuild to the old standard.
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Since the hot summer sun turns particles like those emitted from cars into ozone, air pollution makes the effects of heat waves— already deadlier than earthquakes and hurricanes — even worse.
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A 2018 study published in Demography modeled 80 years of birth data in the US, and found that heat waves correlated with decreased birth rates nine to ten months later.
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As the world's climate changes, heat waves may become difficult for people to tolerate in certain parts of the world — and this could have an impact on the global economy.
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One analysis of extreme weather data found that human-caused climate change was a "significant driver" of 21 out of 27 extreme weather events, including droughts, floods and heat waves.
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While wildfires occur throughout the West every year, scientists see the influence of climate change in the extreme heat waves that have contributed to the intensity of fires this summer.
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Across the United States, every element of the country's energy infrastructure, like oil wells and nuclear power plants, will be stressed by droughts, heat waves, rising seas and fiercer storms.
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Even in 2019, humanity's sins are starting to bear their rotten fruit, in the form of scorching heat waves, relentless flooding, and brutal storms, all made harsher by climate change.
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The bottom line: Climate change is like diabetes for the planet, which when left unchecked (like the path we're on) can worsen emergencies like flooding and crises like heat waves.
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Many of the reef systems were found to be full of complex species that created distinctive structures and were functioning in spite of deadly marine heat waves in recent years.
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The survey is particularly important amid increasingly unpredictable and extreme weather across the planet, including "watermelon snow," wildfires inside the Arctic Circle and deadly heat waves in nations like India.
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has cautioned that warming past 1.5 degrees Celsius would increase both the frequency and intensity of climate impacts like heat waves and storms.
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Australian heat waves have been examined in the past, most recently in several studies that showed a clear link between climate change and a period of torrid weather in 2013.
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In Europe, heat waves in June and July shattered temperature records, with six different countries seeing all-time high temperatures -- Belgium, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
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In addition to global climate patterns, the new research zeroes in on some more local phenomenon (such as heat waves and tropical storms), simulating them more realistically than ever before.
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Blistering heat waves like the one that scorched the Southwest in June will make it harder for aircraft around the world to take off, according to the report published Thursday.
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Almost three-quarters of the world's coral reefs were affected by those heat waves and experts say warmer oceans mean these sorts of die-offs will become much more common.
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Similarly, California is suffering through the worst wildfires the state has ever seen, as well as drought, extreme heat waves and degraded air quality that threatens the health of residents.
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India's heat waves have grown particularly intense in the past decade, as climate change has intensified around the world, killing thousands of people and affecting an increasing number of states.
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Neither is it to assume that we won't suffer in the coming years from heat waves, storms and floods — or from elected officials who disregard the urgent need for action.
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Working with the Natural Resource Defense Council, Georgia Tech, and other institutions, Ahmedabad developed an early-warning system and a strategy for mobilizing the city in advance of impending heat waves.
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"The future of heat waves is looking worse even with significant mitigation of climate change, and much worse without mitigation," said Elfatih Eltahir, a professor of hydrology and climate at MIT.
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South Asia, the world's most disaster-prone region according to the United Nations, has suffered widespread droughts, heat waves and cyclones leading to crop failures in recent years, the report said.
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Heat waves are some of the most direct manifestations of climate change, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and Europe is certainly not the only place feeling the heat.
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At their current pace, the average global temperature is projected to rise to levels that scientists say could bring dangerous conditions, including deadlier heat waves and the inundation of coastal cities.
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Over that same time period, the state has endured a record-breaking drought and relentless heat waves, which have dried out vegetation and produced the conditions that have fed monstrous wildfires.
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After testing what ended up being hundreds of formulas, we've finally narrowed our vanities down to the very best, the products that stuck around through snowstorms and heat waves, 3 a.m.
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The season of heat waves might not come to mind as perfect tattoo weather, but once you see the designs that are currently trending online, you may just change your tune.
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With heat waves and wildfires scorching the western US, meteorologist Kelvin Droegemeier, an expert on extreme weather, has been nominated to lead the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
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They found that droughts cut a country's crop production by 10 percent, and heat waves by 9 percent, but that floods and cold spells had no effects on agricultural production levels.
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You may remember that July saw exceptional heat waves around the world, with punishing, corn sweat-fueled temperatures of above 48.8 degrees Celsius (120 degrees Fahrenheit) across the central United States.
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Meyer said businesses, mayors, cities and other groups were also stepping up actions to limit greenhouse gas emissions that scientists link to more droughts, heat waves, floods and rising sea levels.
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If successful, it would be the biggest single measure to limit global warming since governments adopted the Paris Agreement last December, seeking to limit heat waves, floods, droughts and rising seas.
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Heat is the deadliest form of extreme weather in the US. Because of global warming, the world is likely to see hotter, longer, and more frequent heat waves like this one.
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The World Meteorological Organization reported that heat-related deaths and illnesses have risen steadily since 21984, and now 22012 percent of the world's population lives in regions vulnerable to heat waves.
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And the problems emerging now — fires, cyclones, heat waves, drought, shifts in sea life and the death of the Great Barrier Reef — have been predicted in the public record for years.
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Heat waves are said to be especially dangerous and deadly early on in the summer season, because people haven't had time to adapt to the higher temperatures and lower air quality.
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It is foremost an issue of great human tragedy with lives, homes and habitats lost to extreme heat waves, droughts, fires, floods, hurricanes, sea level rise, storm surges and coastal erosion.
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But the combination — plus the basic fact that since the Earth is warming, heat waves ought to become more intense on average anyway — makes a darned strong case for global warming.
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Deadly summer heat waves in the eastern United States may be predictable nearly two months before they occur, giving emergency planners and farmers more time to prepare, scientists reported on Monday.
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The World Meteorological Organization says that heat-related deaths and illnesses have risen steadily since 1980, and now 30 percent of the world's population lives in regions vulnerable to heat waves.
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In 2015, the Lancet report says, an additional 175 million people over the age of 65 were exposed to heat waves, when compared with broad trends of the past 20 years.
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In areas such as the South Central United States, South Australia, and the Middle East, where heat waves tend to be relatively dry, fans might not be advisable, the authors wrote.
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" It draws our attention to the "broad scientific consensus" that greenhouse gas emissions are causing major changes to the planet, "manifesting as extreme weather conditions, heat waves, droughts and intense storms.
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The details: Twenty-three Indian states are expected to be hit by heat waves this year, up from nine in 2015, according to an official at the National Disaster Management Authority.
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Australia's heat waves, now an annual ordeal, have been expanding into areas that hadn't normally experienced them before, said David Rissik, deputy director of the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility.
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Surprises can also come from compound extreme events like droughts, floods, heat waves, hurricanes and wildfires that may occur in multiple places at the same time, or sequentially in one place.
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The combination gives us the sort of persistent weather extremes we've seen affecting the US and Europe in recent summers, including many of the unprecedented heat waves, floods, droughts, and wildfires.
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Trilobites Global warming caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases is having clear effects in the physical world: more heat waves, heavier rainstorms and higher sea levels, to cite a few.
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"Imagine … by hiding in caves and shelters deep underground, small, but illustrious groups have survived the Apocalypse — climate wars, heat waves, mass extinction," read a text handed out at the entrance.
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Those small changes in averages lead to big changes in extremes as heat-trapping gases increase the thermal energy in the atmosphere, leading to more intense, frequent, and longer heat waves.
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Among the worst heat waves in the region on record, the 2015 heat wave in India and Pakistan reached temperatures up to 120 degrees and resulted in at least 4,000 deaths.
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Brutal heat waves have hit many parts of the world this week, and heat indices reaching the mid-triple digits have forced people to find ways to cope with the excessive weather.
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However, by making it harder for Americans to prepare for global warming-induced phenomena, such as heat waves and sea level rise, the Trump administration is effectively putting people at greater risk.
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Climate change is the cause of more frequent and severe flooding, droughts, storms and heat waves, as average global temperatures reach record highs, ice melts in the Arctic and sea levels rise.
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While warming has resulted in more frequent, intense, and longer heat waves in most land areas, specific regions, like much of Africa and South America, have also been hit by worsening droughts.
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Frustrated by the heat waves and mudslides wreaking havoc on her neighbors, Mgogwana speaks at schools all over her city about climate change, inspiring many even younger than her to become activists.
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Western Europe, like other parts of the globe, has been seeing more frequent and intense heat waves in recent years in a trend that scientists have tied to human-caused global warming.
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New research published in Climatic Change shows that, as temperatures around the world increase, and as heat waves occur with more frequency, airlines will be confronted with this problem on the regular.
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Go deeper: The future of our cloud forests is clearer Global warming is pushing the Great Barrier Reef to the brink In hot water: Global warming amplifies risk of marine heat waves
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It's already helped cause more scorching summer days in many areas of the world, especially in cities, and it will undoubtedly lead to more periods of extreme weather, such as heat waves.
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"Heat waves tend to bring the most severe impacts when the overnight lows are well above normal because there is no relief for people's bodies or homes to cool down," he said.
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By the year 2100, 74% of people on Earth may be exposed to deadly heat waves if nothing is done to address climate change, according to a new study published in Nature.
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Global average temperatures have hit record highs in each of the past three years, and warming is projected to cause worsening droughts, sea level rises, floods, heat waves and extinctions of wildlife.
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Heat waves like the ones currently gripping the United States, Europe and elsewhere are likely to become more frequent, according to a report released this week by the Union of Concerned Scientists.
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Despite signs of climate action the report said "we are not making progress fast enough" to limit a rise in temperatures linked to more floods, heat waves, wildfires and rising sea levels.
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The National Weather Service (NWS) said this will likely be one of the most intense heat waves seen in many years across desert Southwest, including parts of California, Arizona, Nevada, and Utah.
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"We can pretty confidently attribute heat waves to climate change in many cases," said Marvel, noting the first major attribution event found a human fingerprint in an earlier European heatwave, in 2003.
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This year was no exception, with wildfires consuming well over a million acres in British Columbia, and breaking out amid searing heat waves in Spain, Italy, and other parts of southern Europe.
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With summer heat waves still several weeks away, 1,500 firefighters were battling 70 fires across New South Wales, mostly north of Sydney, where massive clouds of smoke drifted east, turning skies orange.
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Although the United States is the biggest cumulative emitter, China recently overtook it as the biggest annual emitter of gases blamed for causing heat waves, droughts, species extinctions and rising sea levels.
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With record heat waves, costly fire seasons, rising sea levels, and superstorms wracking our planet, it is clear that human-caused climate disruption is causing major problems for all of Earth's inhabitants.
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Meanwhile, the Indian Met Department's prediction that the entire country could be abnormally hot in May and June, with longer and more severe heat waves, has unnerved many people in the Bundelkhand.
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The signs are all around us with rising seas, blistering heat waves, collapsing coral reefs and global systems destined to go disastrously wrong if we don't do something about it and soon.
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At 5 °C (9 °F) of warming, countries like Greece could see heat waves in which the peak temperatures are 9 °C (16.2 °F) higher than they are now, the study found.
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What they found: The study's findings are grim, as they indicate that global warming is already sharply raising the risk of marine heat waves, and this is likely to get significantly worse.
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They based their answer on three widely used academic models that tried to quantify the harm to things like human health and coastal property as heat waves increased and sea-levels rose.
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Heat waves claim more lives than any other natural hazard, and in 11 of the country's largest school districts, in addition to countless smaller ones, many schools do not have air-conditioning.
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The atmosphere is warming because of greenhouse gas emissions linked to human activity, and climate change is already contributing to extreme weather globally, including stronger storms, more extensive flooding and heat waves.
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Warmer global temperatures, driven by the greenhouse gases emitted from human activity like burning coal and driving cars, has led to droughts as well as more extreme heat waves that last longer.
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Between 2016 and 2017, half of all corals on the Great Barrier Reef died due to stress and starvation caused by back-to-back heat waves that were amplified by climate change.
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City workers will come to your house to plant trees — for free — as a natural way to keep cool against the kind of heat waves that swept across Europe over the summer.
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The Indian government created a national prevention and management response plan for heat waves, but experts say that extreme heat in India and beyond still poses disproportionately high risks for the poor.
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Meanwhile, the much-maligned Northern California utility Pacific Gas and Electric is using UrbanFootprint to see how heat waves affect their infrastructure and distribution network, according to a statement from the company.
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The unexpected bloom comes amid growing concern around the world about global warming and summer heat waves that are triggering intense forest fires and powerful super storms fueled by rising sea temperatures.
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Given the increased likelihood of more severe and long-lasting heat waves around the world, stemming from human-caused global warming, we might need to get used to games like Wednesday night's.
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Previous heat waves have claimed thousands of lives across a region where people are not used to such weather, many structures are not designed for it and few homes have air conditioning.
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Previous heat waves have claimed thousands of lives across a region where people are not used to such weather, many structures are not designed for it and few homes have air conditioning.
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Climate change and fierce heat waves have dried the landscape into swaths of tinder, and all it takes is a single spark to unleash wildfires so powerful, they create their own weather.
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Current agriculture models, for instance, don't have a good sense of what will happen to crops if increased heat waves, droughts, new pests and diseases, and other changes all start to combine.
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But such geo-engineering may be "economically, socially and institutionally infeasible," according to a draft obtained by Reuters covering hundreds of pages on risks of droughts, floods, heat waves and more powerful storms.
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Thresholds for heat waves, therefore, differ across the country -- in the capital New Delhi, a heat wave is declared after two consecutive days of temperatures of at least 45 degrees Celsius (2000 Fahrenheit).
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Mosquito-borne diseases tend to get worse during heat waves, and increasing temperatures make the bloodsuckers more infectious by allowing them to carry more viruses, such as Zika or West Nile, Peterson said.
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In another blow to Trump's conviction the weather somehow disproves climate change, the report noted scientists are increasingly able to link extreme weather events like heat waves, storms and droughts to rising temperatures.
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"Heat waves are on the rise," Stefan Rahmstorf, co-chairman of Earth system analysis at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and professor at Potsdam University in Germany, said in a statement.
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Trump has rejected the scientific evidence proving that human activities, such as burning fossil fuels, are causing the planet to warm, thereby worsening extreme weather events like heat waves and heavy precipitation events.
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Update (April 2018): Although you can largely blame underwater heat waves for the majority of coral reef bleaching, evidence shows that enough of the damage comes from the hazardous chemical ingredients in sunscreen.
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"The underlying theory can be applied to other wave phenomenon including acoustic and heat waves," said Yang Hao, professor of antennas and electromagnetics at Queen Mary University of London, who led the study.
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Scientists think that global climate change, if left unchecked, could bring withering droughts, more intense storms, devastating sea level rise, and more frequent and severe heat waves to many parts of the globe.
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This includes changes in the distribution of rainfall, an increase in the frequency and severity of heat waves, more hydrological extremes such as droughts and floods, and greater amounts of sea level rise.
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A new study in the magazine Science Advances predicts that a cocktail of heat and humidity will cause deadly heat waves in South Asia before the end of this century, potentially impacting millions.
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That has dragged down demand growth in Asia, despite inflated purchases ahead of U.S. sanctions on Iran and increased imports from Japan and South Korea as they struggle with record-setting heat waves.
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Climate change caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases is wreaking havoc on our planet — from heat waves to heavy rainstorms to higher sea levels, the consequences of global warming are far-reaching.
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Indian Hindu devotees cover their faces to protect themselves from a dust storm and heat waves as they return after taking a holy dip at Holy Sangam in Allahabad on April 225, 22016.
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Forest tracts that span large gradients in rainfall, elevation and other environmental factors give species the opportunity to migrate or find local refuges during heat waves, fires, storms and other extreme weather conditions.
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Of course, no one, including the IEA's experts, can be sure how future extreme manifestations of global warming like the severe heat waves recently tormenting Europe and South Asia could change such projections.
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From financial health to an increase in the quantity and intensity of hurricanes, heat waves, droughts, and more, researchers say much of the planet will be uninhabitable in the future without serious changes.
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As far as we're concerned, heat waves and action flicks are a match made in heaven, not least because ever-expanding blockbuster run times mean more time luxuriating in movie theater air conditioning.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The effects of climate change mean the world can expect higher temperatures and more frequent heat waves, climate experts have warned, with poor communities likely to be worst affected.
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Scientists say climate change likely played a role in the severe polar vortex event that engulfed North America, the deadly summer heat waves in Europe, and the devastatingly slow movement of Hurricane Dorian.
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EPA that clear evidence — some of it produced by the government's own scientists — demonstrated that carbon emissions cause global warming, which in turn causes dangers such as smog, deadly heat waves, and hurricanes.
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Although the report has not been peer reviewed in a scientific journal, its conclusions are supported by other scientific studies warning of intolerable heat waves that could be life-threatening for outdoor workers.
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Climate change is already impacting the health of millions around the world, from expanding the range of disease-carrying mosquitoes to worsening chronic kidney disease to increasing the frequency of deadly heat waves.
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We're already witnessing the effects of human-caused global warming — catastrophic hurricanes, droughts, heat waves and forest fires among them — and the window to prevent even worse weather, scientists say, is quickly closing.
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The WMO linked heat waves, flooding and extreme weather to climate change, and detailed the impacts of human-caused climate change on oceans, which store carbon and absorb heat from the Earth's atmosphere.
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"There's this large social and behavioral component to heat waves that doesn't get nearly enough attention," said Jalonne L. White-Newsome, a senior program officer at the Kresge Foundation who led the study.
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This will make the demise of the world's coral reefs, the inundation of most low-lying island nations, incessant heat waves and fires and misery for millions—perhaps billions—of people equally unavoidable.
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From wildfires to droughts, heat waves to intensifying hurricanes, the destabilizing impacts of climate change are growing more apparent to states on both sides of the political divide, especially after this sizzling summer.
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Global climate change is driving trend of maritime heat waves The heat wave has had a direct effect on the aquatic ecosystem there, with many fish highly sensitive to even small temperature changes.
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Just in Europe and the US, deaths from unprecedented heat waves since 22019 are in the tens of thousands, a number likely to be far higher in less developed parts of the globe.
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Beyond the domestic impact, Cummings quoted Director of National Security Daniel Coats' assessment that heat waves, droughts and floods are likely to fuel competition for resources, social discontent, migration and tension between states.
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"This summer we are seeing the true face of climate change, in the form of record floods, droughts, heat waves and wildfires," Michael Mann, a climate scientist at Pennsylvania State University, told me.
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Go deeper: 2018's global heat wave is so pervasive it's surprising scientists Global heat waves animation shows records broken in 2018 Special report: A 30-year alarm on the reality of climate change
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As fire experts pointed out before the blaze began, hot temperatures and heat waves had parched much of Northern California's vegetation to near-record levels of dryness, turning the land into fire-ready kindling.
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Also so far in 2018, "Australia and Argentina suffered extreme heat waves, whilst drought continued in Kenya and Somalia, and the South African city of Cape Town struggled with acute water shortages," he said.
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Bad news for beer fans — droughts and heat waves driven by global warming will hurt barley crops, likely doubling the price of beer in the coming decades, according to a study published on Monday.
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" The big picture: "Everything about global warming is changing how people grow their food, access their drinking water, and live in places that are increasingly being flooded, dried out, or blasted with heat waves.
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Multiple scientific assessments, including a major 2018 report from the Trump administration, have found that climate change is already harming Americans through hotter and longer-lasting heat waves, heavy precipitation events, and other impacts.
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Why it matters: Australia is one of the countries most impacted by climate extremes, suffering from heat waves, bushfires and coral bleaching events tied to long-term, human-driven increases in greenhouse gas concentrations.
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Droughts and heat waves wiped out nearly a tenth of the rice, wheat, corn and other cereal crops in countries hit by extreme weather disasters between 27 and 2007, according to a new study.
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Global warming is gradually increasing the average temperature of the oceans, but the new research is the first systematic global analysis of ocean heat waves, when temperatures reach extremes for five days or more.
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The researchers said ocean heat waves can have "major socioeconomic and political ramifications," such as in the northwest Atlantic in 2012, when lobster stocks were dramatically affected, creating tensions across the US–Canada border.
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A satellite focusing on disaster communications could be particularly beneficial to South Asia, home to about a quarter of the world's population and prone to tropical cyclones, heat waves, earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides and floods.
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Greenhouse gases at the time were only a fraction of those now blamed for trapping excessive levels of the sun's heat in the atmosphere, stoking more droughts, floods, heat waves and rising sea levels.
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The video features Republican front-runner Donald Trump and his two closest rivals, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, denying man-made global warming, juxtaposed with images of U.S. flooding, wildfires, droughts and heat waves.
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Health risks Heat waves pose serious health risks and can cause cardiovascular and respiratory systems to fail, resulting in premature death, Clare Heaviside, of the University of Oxford's Environmental Change Institute (ECI), told CNN.
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In January, the agency awarded $1 billion in grants to help communities prepare for natural disasters such as floods, heat waves and wildfires, which will grow more frequent and severe because of climate change.
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Cities such as Melbourne, Australia, and Seoul, South Korea, are creating new parks and green spaces that cool the streets during heat waves and provide recreational opportunities that help attract new residents and businesses.
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A draft report prepared by 13 government agencies says the U.S. is already enduring the impact of climate change, such as fewer cool nights and more extreme heat waves, the New York Times reports.
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Abrupt local spikes in temperatures, far less researched than heat waves on land, add to pressures on marine life such as over-fishing and plastic pollution, they wrote in the journal Nature Climate Change.
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Vimal Mishra, assistant professor at the Indian Institute of Technology in Gandhinagar, said heat stress and heat waves could lead to loss of productivity and earnings, livestock deaths, higher food prices and water shortages.
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That would be well beyond the 1.5 degrees Celsius threshold that the U.N. indicated earlier this year could have dramatic effects including worsening drought, flooding, heat waves and depletion of coral reefs and glaciers.
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The International Monetary Fund has estimated the total cost of fossil fuel subsidies worldwide at $5.3 trillion a year, including damage from air pollution or heat waves, floods and droughts stoked by climate change.
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An international team of researchers, led by Mora and the University of Hawaii at Manoa, analyzed hundreds of historic heat waves to quantify what weather conditions posed the greatest risk of death in humans.
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That is distinct from short-term weather trends like the heat waves that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued warnings about this week for much of the eastern half of the United States.
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On Wednesday, for example, the National Intelligence Council released a report finding that, by worsening heat waves, droughts and other extreme weather events, climate change is already helping to destabilize parts of the world.
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In the following months, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and U.S. government published their most dire climate assessments to date, their warnings underscored by deadly heat waves and headline-grabbing temperature records.
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These actions put the world at greater risk from the effects of climate change -- ranging from deadly heat waves, which Europe experienced last summer, to deadlier wildfire seasons, which California struggled with last year.
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A jump in the average number of people exposed to potentially lethal heat waves - some 125 million since the beginning of this century - exemplified climate change's fast-expanding cost to public health, said Guterres.
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How it works: Climate science studies show that as the world warms in response to human emissions of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, heat waves and wildfires are becoming more likely and severe.
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Why it matters: The heat is a sign of a warming world, scientists have said, with human-caused global warming raising the odds of heat waves as well as increasing their severity and duration.
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Earlier studies along with a separate new analysis released Thursday found the potential emergence of extreme heat waves — from China to West Africa to South Asia — that are far worse than those currently experienced.
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Currently, the world is on pace for around 3 degrees Celsius of warming or more, bringing far higher risks of deadly heat waves, floods, the collapse of polar ice caps and other potential calamities.
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And a study published last year warned that by 2040, heat waves in cities like Sydney and Melbourne could bring temperatures of 50 degrees Celsius: a dangerous and, yes, asphalt-melting 122 degrees Fahrenheit.
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In 2016 and 2017, marine heat waves caused by climate change resulted in mass bleaching, which killed about half of the corals on the Great Barrier Reef, along with many others around the world.
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Ms. Malarich said trees are also a public health issue, citing studies showing that more trees in a community correlates with lower asthma rates, reduced hospital visits during heat waves and improved mental health.
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It is astonishing that even at this late date, with devastating fires and heat waves spreading around the world, the Koch empire continues to put short-term profits over the livability of the planet.
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This is because several summer heat waves and poor crop performances have been linked to La Niña in the past, especially when coming off of a major El Niño phase as has recently occurred.
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Southeastern Australia has suffered through a series of brutal heat waves over the past two months, with temperatures reaching a scorching 113 degrees Fahrenheit in some parts of the state of New South Wales.
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Changes deep in the ocean or high in the mountains are not always as noticeable as some of the other hallmarks of global warming, such as heat waves on land, or wildfires and droughts.
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Rick Thoman, an Alaska climate specialist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, told The Hill that high atmospheric pressure resulting in less wind and increased sunshine can be a cause of the heat waves.
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The Australian Bureau of Meteorology warned last week that the summer, which runs from December through February, is likely to be hotter and drier than normal, increasing the chances of heat waves and bushfires.
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Last month, almost 200 nations agreed at a summit in Paris to phase out net greenhouse gas emissions this century to limit rising temperatures blamed for causing everything from more heat waves to downpours.
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The typhoon hit during a summer of meteorological misery for Japan, with floods and landslides killing over 200 people in western Japan in July, the same month that heat waves claimed about 130 lives.
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The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) is working with state health departments to create an early warning system that would notify millions of people by text message about ways to stay cool, when heat waves hit.
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According to Aslam, the officials even said that the growing use of solar panels was to blame for the more frequent and intense heat waves that Pakistan has experienced – something scientists say is entirely untrue.
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Climate change is already resulting in an uptick in extreme weather events, particularly heat waves and precipitation extremes, across much of the U.S., and coastal states are increasingly having to grapple with rising sea levels.
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"I think we should expect to see more frequent heat waves in the Arctic, particularly in the winter, due to less sea ice allowing the storms to more easily track into the Arctic," said Meier.
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Heat waves and droughts struck in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, where they worsened fires set to clear Indonesian rain forests for paper and palm plantations and shrouded the country in a choking haze.
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Raging wildfires, once-in-1,000-year storms, and lethal heat waves have become fixtures of the evening news—and all this after the planet has warmed by less than 1 degree Celsius above preindustrial temperatures.
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The threat of heat waves will become more serious across the globe and more widespread as the climate crisis continues, says Francesco Rocca, president of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
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While it may not be the first impact that comes to mind, the possibility that heat waves can cause air travel disruptions has been apparent to experts in the climate and transportation industries for years.
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If temperatures climb 2 degrees Celsius, low-lying islands would be wiped out as seas continue to rise, pushing many plants and animals toward extinction, increasing the intensity of droughts, floods, heat waves and storms.
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Deadly heat waves to become more common Many Portlanders took to social media to document some of the strange and outrageous ways they are keeping cool, including sticking their feet in a cooler of ice.
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Heat waves or droughts in the region could have an effect on a good chunk of the industry, whose contribution to the UK's economy has grown by 25% since 242584404, according to an industry body.
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Heat waves or droughts in the region could have an effect on a good chunk of the industry, whose contribution to the UK's economy has grown by 10% since 2016, according to an industry body.
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Working class Americans who lack air conditioning die in heat waves; higher temperatures in cities lead to cockroach infestations, which lead to high asthma rates; and scorching inner city heat islands lead to heat strokes.
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Coal-fired power generation is a major contributor to carbon and other emissions that scientists say are contributing to global warming, which is causing heat waves, rising sea levels, droughts and other extreme weather event.
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Beyond pollution, extreme weather itself is a stressor; mortality and disease among the most vulnerable among us — the young, the elderly, and those with chronic illness — has been shown to increase with prolonged heat waves.
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The big picture: "The impacts of long-term global warming are already being felt — in coastal flooding, heat waves, intense precipitation and ecosystem change," Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA GISS, said in a press release.
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The earthquake triggered landslides that buried houses and paralyzed Hokkaido with widespread power and transport cuts, the latest natural disaster to hit Japan after typhoons, floods and deadly heat waves in the past two months.
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Chan pointed to Hurricanes Katrina, Harvey and Irma as examples of climate change-related weather events that have affected children's health, along with extreme heat waves and emerging infectious pathogens such as the Zika virus.
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Extreme weather events featuring both heat waves and droughts will occur as often as every two or three years in the second half of the century if temperatures rise at current rates, the study said.
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