Tag: heat

“The equivalent of a global atomic war has indeed broken out on this planet, just in slow motion.”

Drought now covers 59 percent of the country as the warmest year on record runs into fall.

They identified 21,518 deaths during this period where heat was either the underlying or a contributing cause of death.

Shaping the twentieth century, baking the twenty-first century.

Economic inequality helps generate such wide temperature differentials.

"But equally there is no doubt that we can and should constrain the increasing likelihood of all kinds of extreme weather events by restricting greenhouse gas emissions as sharply as possible."

“In other words, it is not clear that we can survive big temperature increases like 6 and 10 degrees C.”