At the same time, he says scientists shouldn't shy away from painting «scary scenarios» — such
as deadly heat waves in New York City and a dried - up Mississippi River as possible results of global warming — to get a message across.
Not exact matches
A new study shows that without significant reductions in carbon emissions,
deadly heat waves could begin within
as little
as a few decades to strike regions of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
However, under business -
as - usual scenarios, without significant reductions in carbon emissions, the study shows these
deadly heat waves could begin within
as little
as a few decades to strike regions of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, including the fertile Indus and Ganges river basins that produce much of the region's food supply.
The
deadly bufadienolides are known to be
heat stable, but because they aren't water soluble, the new research shows that other tough but
as yet unidentified toxins in the cane toads» arsenal must also be involved.
Those rates can change if the group is affected by disease or other
deadly conditions (such
as accidents, natural disasters, extreme
heat or war and other sources of violence).
And with blazing
heat becoming the new norm, the number of
deadly heat waves, and therefore fatalities, are expected to increase
as the climate warms.
As the events leading up to the American Revolution
heat up in the North, Spanish forces plan to take control of Louisiana in the South — but they have yet to reckon with Aveline, a
deadly Assassin who will use every weapon and ability in her arsenal to win freedom for her land and her people.
Hailing from the distant windswept dunes of the east, The Shieldbreaker is
deadly as a viper, her iron will has been forged in the
heat of the blazing desert sun.
Dogs can't beat on the windows or wave at people
as the
heat becomes
deadly.
However, when you are aware of the early signs of
heat stroke and you treat your cat appropriately
as described above, you can avoid this
deadly condition.
Hailing from the distant windswept dunes of the east, The Shieldbreaker is
deadly as a viper, her iron will has been forged in the
heat of the blazing desert sun.
While heatwaves are an annual occurrence in India, global warming has meant recent
heat waves are hotter and
as a result more
deadly.
At four degrees, the
deadly European
heat wave of 2003, which killed
as many
as 2,000 people a day, will be a normal summer.
The poorest — the 1.3 billion in developing countries who depend on wood and dried dung
as primary cooking and
heating fuels, smoke from which kills 4 million and temporarily debilitates hundreds of millions every year — will be condemned to more generations of poverty and its
deadly consequences.
The California and Nevada
heat wave of 2006,
as well
as the record - setting
heat wave of late June 2013 in the Southwest were both
deadly and costly for the local population.
An
as yet unpublished paper by NASA climatologist James Hansen and others makes the case that recent extreme
heat events, such
as Russia's 2010
deadly heatwave and last year's extreme drought in Texas, are directly linked to our warming planet.
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None of these disasters has been
as deadly as the August 2003
heat wave that killed
as many
as 70,000 in Western Europe, and one has to be careful in ascribing specific
heat waves to climate change, but the temperatures we're seeing, coupled with the projections from climate scientists, should be setting off alarm bells.
It is also widely agreed that the world has seen a spate of extreme
heat events in recent years, such
as the 2011 Texas
heat wave and drought and the
deadly 2010
heat wave in Russia, and that global warming made some of these events more likely to occur and more severe.
They've gathered data they say shows that the 2011 Texas and Oklahoma
heat wave —
as well
as a
deadly Moscow
heat in 2010 — were «a consequence of global warming because their likelihood was negligible prior to the recent rapid global warming.
The
heat wave was surely largely only a
deadly event in the statistics in so far
as it affected people already weakened severely by other factors, and even that only because of inadequate air conditioning, which might consume a lot of energy, but would do an awful lot more good than trying to lower Northern European summer temperatures through lower CO2.