Sentences with phrase «dangerous levels of heat»

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Some clear steps include monitoring the internal temperature of rubble piles and scattering them before heat from fermentation builds up to dangerous levels.

Drinking lots of water during a very long race in the heat, for example — this can even lead to a dangerous condition called hyponatremia, where blood sodium levels drop too low.

• Time is critical — It takes just minutes for the interior of a vehicle to heat up to dangerous levels, which can result in brain damage or death for the animal.

As the forests burn, and the crops fail, the dangerous buildup of greenhouse gases will continue to fuel the planet towards record heating, catastrophic sea level rise, and mass methane release.

Researchers two years ago predicted that extreme heat and humidity could make some parts of the planet uninhabitable if drastic steps were not taken to cut fossil fuel combustion, and the greenhouse gas emissions that are amplifying surface air temperatures to dangerous levels.

As if sweltering heat weren't bad enough, Europeans also suffered through a higher - than - normal number of days with dangerous smog levels that year.6 Smog — with ground - level ozone as the main component — forms when sunlight reacts with chemicals such as volatile organic compounds, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and water vapor.

The 2007 IPCC report found that the cost of actions to stabilize concentrations of heat - trapping emissions at a level that gives us a good chance of avoiding dangerous warming would amount to less than a 0.12 percent reduction in average annual global gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate in 2050.

To help avoid the most dangerous consequences of climate change, ranging from extreme heat, droughts, and storms to acidifying oceans and rising sea levels, the United States must play a lead role and begin to cut its heat - trapping emissions today — and aim for at least an 80 percent drop from 2005 levels by 2050.

The scientist leading the research said that unless emissions of greenhouse gases were cut, the planet would heat up by a minimum of 4C by 2100, twice the level the world's governments deem dangerous.