Saturday, June 10, 2017

India’s Punishing Heat Waves More Deadly With Warming

Heat waves in India have become more extreme and significantly more deadly even with the relatively moderate amount of human-driven warming that has occurred over the past few decades, new research shows.
Coming on the heels of President Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the landmark Paris agreement, which seeks to limit that warming to 2°C above preindustrial levels, the study lays bare how even meeting that goal could translate to major health impacts in developing countries like India with large, vulnerable populations.
That rising global temperature will lead to more, and more intense, extreme heat events is one of the clearest findings of climate science. Several studies have already found the fingerprints of the nearly 2°F (1°C) of warming over the past century in today’s heat waves.
Climate change has helped shift the odds of extreme heat.

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