Sentences with phrase «of killer heat waves»

Everyone has heard — especially after last summer — how human use of fossil fuels to produce energy will increase the frequency and severity of killer heat waves.

Originally posted on Open Mind: What with talk of killer heat waves, droughts, floods, etc. etc., this blog tends to get pretty serious.

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And when the next greenhouse - induced crisis comes — hurricanes in New York, killer heat waves in Delhi or the inundation of Pacific islands — they could be there to provide a blueprint for effective action.

My own approach is to show pictures of hospitals during the 2003 European killer heat wave and pictures of hurricane Katrina submergence and refugees, and to say that it is highly likely that there will be many more such scenes in the future (that is, scenes of mortality, flooding and environmental refugees), due to the probable increase in heat waves and flooding.

The year also brought outbreaks of cold air, and killer heat waves and floods.

According to one of the most extreme opinion expressed by former Vice President and now Noble Laureate Al Gore in his book entitled «An Inconvenient Truth», we can be certain to see catastrophic events such as droughts, floods, epidemics, killer heat waves, etc. as a result of global warming.

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.

To the long list of predicted consequences of global warming — stronger storms, methane release, habitat changes, ice - sheet melting, rising seas, stronger El Niños, killer heat waves — we must now add abrupt, catastrophic coolings.

If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet's climate system into a tail - spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced - a catastrophe of our own making.»

Many scientists say emissions of greenhouse gases must be cut 80 percent or more by 2050 to avoid heat waves and killer droughts from global warming.