Sentences with phrase «of deadly heat waves»

Many experts consider 2 °C of warming to be unacceptably high, increasing the risk of deadly heat waves, droughts, flooding, and extinctions.

increasing the risk of deadly heat waves, droughts, flooding, and extinctions.

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.

The summer of 2015 also produced one of the deadliest heat waves in history in South Asia, killing an estimated 3,500 people in Pakistan and India.

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Deadly heat waves projected in the densely populated agricultural regions of South Asia.

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Video: Deadly heat waves projected in the densely populated agricultural regions of South Asia

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.

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 new research, led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), could potentially enable forecasts of the likelihood of U.S. heat waves 15 - 20 days out, giving society more time to prepare for these often - deadly events.

In the deadly Chicago heat wave of 1995 those living on the top floor of a building with a black roof were most likely to die, according to subsequent analysis.

President William J. Clinton (archival): If we fail to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases, deadly heat waves and droughts will become more frequent, coastal areas will flood and economies will be disrupted.

The deadly heat stress associated with an August 2015 heat wave in Egypt was found to be 70 percent more likely, underscoring the heavy toll of climate change on humans.

In the past 3 - 4 decades, there has been an increasing trend in high - humidity heat waves, which are characterized by the persistence of extremely high night - time temperature.1 The combination of high humidity and high night - time temperature can make for a deadly pairing, offering no relief and posing a particular threat for the elderly.

Two separate deadly heat waves that occurred in India and Pakistan in the summer of 2015 «were exacerbated by anthropogenic climate change.»

Washington Post reporter Chelsea Harvey writes that MIT researchers have found that millions of people in South Asia could experience deadly heat waves by the end of the century.

The groundbreaking and far - reaching educational recommendations for climate change and health curricula aim to expand the numbers of health professionals equipped to recognize and respond to the health challenges of a warming climate, including deadly heat waves, flooding, air pollution, and wildfires; greater spread of disease vectors like ticks and mosquitos; and growing food and drinking water insecurity.

MIT researchers have found that by 2100, climate change could cause deadly heat waves in parts of South Asia, reports Chris Arsenault for Reuters.

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The report catalogued some of the disasters that have been visited around the planet since 2000: killer heat waves in Europe, wildfires in Australia, and deadly floods in Pakistan.

By 2010 impacts long predicted were turning up, sooner than many had expected — acidification of the oceans, unprecedented deadly heat waves, record - breaking floods and droughts, heat - related changes in the survival of sensitive species.

President William J. Clinton (archival): If we fail to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases, deadly heat waves and droughts will become more frequent, coastal areas will flood and economies will be disrupted.

From a deadly heat wave that killed hundreds in Chicago — with the South Side's predominantly African - American neighborhoods among the hardest hit — to the long - lasting devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the country's most vulnerable populations are hit first and worst by climate - related disasters.

Even if we meet the Paris goals of two degrees warming, cities like Karachi and Kolkata will become close to uninhabitable, annually encountering deadly heat waves like those that crippled them in 2015.

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.

That heat has contributed to deadly heat waves, more severe droughts and extended the reach of wildfires.

3) Nights are staying warmer than they used to — one of the reasons that the European heat wave in 2003 was so deadly.

New climate models suggest that parts of the Persian Gulf may experience waves of deadly heat that will eventually force humans to relocate.

«Deadly heat waves are going to be a much bigger problem in the coming decades,» warned CNN in a report last June, «becoming more frequent and occurring over a much greater portion of the planet.»

Heat waves are the most deadly of any weather related events — more than hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, and tornadoes combined.

Six months later, before any measures were taken, deadly fires burned across parts of Chile and Argentina following a record heat wave.

Cities in the Netherlands and throughout Europe suffered through an unprecedented and deadly heat wave in the summer of 2003.

Pierrehumbert: What kind of circulation change could lock Europe into deadly summer heat waves like that of last summer?

This study seems to conflict with Kunkel et al. (1996), which found that evaporation from corn agriculture significantly increased the «sensible heat» of Midwest summers, including the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave.

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.

However, she pointed out that the earliest French harvest ever recorded — 2003, when a deadly heat wave hit Europe and grapes were picked a full month ahead of the once - usual time — did not produce particularly exceptional wines.

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A streak of freak floods in the US, a deadly heat - wave across Central Russia, record drought in the Amazon, deadly floods in Colombia and Venezuela, record highs all over the globe, and a catastrophic flood in Pakistan that affected 20 million people: this is the year when the impacts of climate change no longer appeared hazily in an abstract future, but seemed to be knocking on our collective doorstep.

The changing climate also increases health risks, the most deadly being a rise in the frequency and severity of heat waves.

One study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, for instance, found that a deadly 2010 heat wave in Moscow would have been very, very unlikely to occur in the absence of global warming.

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.

The IPCC scientists predict that because of global warming the future will bring more and deadlier extreme weather of all kinds: more hurricanes, tornadoes, downpours, heat waves, droughts and blizzards.

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.

This would be the type of heat that would make deadly heat wave in Europe in 2003 that killed more than 70,000 people «look like a refreshing day or event,» said study co-author Jeremy Pal of Loyola Marymount University

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.

The deadly Russian heat wave of 2010 was due to a natural atmospheric phenomenon often associated with weather extremes, according to a new NOAA study.