Sentences with phrase «died from extreme heat»

The issue returned to the spotlight earlier this month when it emerged that 2400 sheep died from extreme heat during a voyage from WA to the Middle East in August 2017.
The risk of dying from extreme heat has declined for decades and by now «this should be rather unsurprising as it has been demonstrated over and over again,» they said.

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«Kids don't have to suffer heat injuries or in extreme cases, die from heatstroke.
Jones says that according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, around 650 to 700 Americans die each year from extreme heat.
When it comes to extreme weather Japan's population have more on their minds than a repeat of last summer's record - breaking temperatures, when some 170 died from heat stroke.
As the ejected material rammed into the cloud, some energy from its motion could have been converted into light and heat, powering the dying star's extreme and persistent brightness.
In the lab, protein amyloids, like those that clog up the brains of people who died from Alzheimer's disease, are impervious to just about anything, including extreme heat and cold and powerful detergents.
Older people are at much higher risk of dying during extreme heat events.136, 50,241,233 Pre-existing health conditions also make older adults susceptible to cardiac and respiratory impacts of air pollution25 and to more severe consequences from infectious diseases; 257 limited mobility among older adults can also increase flood - related health risks.258 Limited resources and an already high burden of chronic health conditions, including heart disease, obesity, and diabetes, will place the poor at higher risk of health impacts from climate change than higher income groups.25, 50 Potential increases in food cost and limited availability of some foods will exacerbate current dietary inequalities and have significant health ramifications for the poorer segments of our population (Ch.
People are dying from heat stroke, starvation, and extreme weather events.
More than 370,000 people died during the decade as a result of extreme weather and climate conditions — heat, cold, drought, storms and floods, according to data from the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters.
As Australia saw temperatures in excess of 120 degrees Fahrenheit, as kangaroos collapsed and 100,000 bats fell from the sky due to extreme heat — many dying on impact and the rest perishing slowly — we in Tennessee rushed to insulate pipes and set up emergency shelters.
While the De Bilt weather station near Utrecht recorded a high of «only» 95 ° F (35 ° C), 6 1,000 to 1,400 more people died from the heat than in an average summer, and the two - week stretch of extreme heat in August claimed 400 to 500 lives.6
As for lying, I have observed many scientists seem to have no difficulty with lying when they connect, without a shred of evidence, supportive modeling or any data or often even any theory such things as extreme weather is getting worse or is linked to CO2, wet areas will get wetter and dry areas will get drier, that the ocean swallowed the «missing heat», using a proxy upside down doesn't matter, the models are still adequate for policy even after such a huge divergence from reality, coral die - back is due to manmade warming rather than fishing, all warming must be bad rather than beyond a certain threshold, etc, etc, etc..
extreme heat; or b) a nuclear winter; or most likely c) extreme heat followed by a nuclear winter — Joe Neubarth writes: «The program is running and we are rushing to an abrupt end... Global Average Surface Temperature (GAST) is going up to 17ºC in the next few years — this will kill @ 7 billion people... When about 6 billion people have died from global heating, they will use nuclear weapons to refreeze the Arctic...»
Those data that show that the more people died due to extreme heat than other cause, narrowly beating out flash floods, and that more people die from heat than cold - related events.
Right now it seems that: It's more likely that Summer Arctic Sea Ice extent will disappear before 2025 It's more likely that 2 C will occur nearer to 2033 than 2040 It's more likely that 4 C will occur closer to 2050 than 2100 It's more likely that more people will die from heat stress, disease, or severe clean water and food shortages than extreme weather events.
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