Sentences with phrase «lethal heatwaves»

Researchers warn that more areas of the world will swelter more often in potentially lethal heatwaves unless greenhouse gas emissions are drastically curtailed.

Without drastic action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, potentially lethal heatwaves will threaten most people by the century's end.

LONDON, 19 June, 2017 — By 2100, if nations continue to burn fossil fuels at the current rates, three out of four people will be at risk from lethal heatwaves.

From this mass of information they found 783 lethal heatwaves in 164 cities across 36 countries, with most cases recorded in developed countries at mid-latitudes since 1980: in cities such as New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, London, Beijing, Tokyo, Sydney and São Paulo.

Lovelock predicts that unless bold action is taken today to limit global warming, «intolerable and lethal heatwaves» and rising sea levels that could «threaten every coastal city of the world» will occur.

As a consequence, deserts will spread and lethal heatwaves will become more frequent.

Not exact matches

But all three also point to the same bleak conclusion: human impacts on the atmosphere promise only the choice between a dangerous future, and a catastrophic one, as the planetary thermometer rises, glaciers and icecaps melt, the oceans become more acidic and more likely to flood coastal communities, hurricanes and typhoons become more intense and destructive, heatwaves become more lethal and droughts become more devastating.

Some aspects of the two - degree world — for instance, European heatwaves similar to the lethal 2003 event — are already emerging.