Sentences with phrase «seen deadly heat waves»
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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.
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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.