Expect more deadly heat from climate change, study says

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Deaths related to extreme heat are expected to keep rising, even if most nations can contain global warming at agreed-upon levels, a new study reports.*

Nations supporting the 2015 Paris Agreement have pledged to limit global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels.

However, extreme heat events are expected to occur ever more often as the 2 degree Celsius limit is approached, researchers said.

An analysis of 44 of the 101 most populous "megacities" showed that the number of cities experiencing heat stress doubled with 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 F) of warming, researchers reported.

That trend would potentially expose more than 350 million additional people to heat stress by 2050, if population continues to grow as expected, the study authors said.
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The new study was published online March 27 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. - Phys.org

* Communicating the deadly consequences of global warming for human heat stress - Tom K. R. Matthewsa,1, Robert L. Wilbyb, and Conor Murphy

[greymattermom]

1. There are a lot of red areas in the middle of the country

that will be red for more than one reason this summer.

[MFM008]

2. Ass hat

Will overturn all the environmental protections tomorrow unless he dies in his sleep.