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=====In These U.S. Cities, Heat Waves Will Kill Hundreds More as Temperatures Rise===== | |||
[https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05062019/heat-deaths-cities-climate-change-paris-agreement-half-degree Inside Climate News 6/05/2019] | |||
The number of heat deaths becomes staggering if you try to project them out to a global scale, with hundreds of millions of people expected to be exposed to potentially deadly heat by 2050, said Dann Mitchell, a climate researcher at the University of Bristol. The challenge for doing similar studies for big cities in Asia, Africa and Middle East is lack of reliable health data. | |||
=====Climate Change Has Made Droughts More Frequent Since 1900===== | =====Climate Change Has Made Droughts More Frequent Since 1900===== | ||
[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/climate-change-has-made-droughts-more-frequent-1900-180972087 Smithsonian 5/02/2019] | [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/climate-change-has-made-droughts-more-frequent-1900-180972087 Smithsonian 5/02/2019] | ||
