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Growing risk of extreme heat and humidity

...zone. As water vapour rises from irrigated farmland, in heat extremes which are likely if humans go on burning ever-greater quantities of fossil fuels, then air temperatures and moisture conditions...
Posted On 06 Aug 2018
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Climate models forecast extreme rainfall

...extremes of torrential rain will increase accordingly, with the heaviest rainfall up to 15% more intense for every 1°C that the planet warms. If global temperatures increase by 4°C by...
Posted On 24 May 2017
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Grid Failures 0r Policy Failures.

...infrastructure, weatherization and disaster prevention. Furthermore, profit-driven energy companies are reluctant to invest in weatherization or renewable energy sources without regulation to force their hand. The...
Posted On 10 Jun 2022
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Summer 2023 was the hottest on record but don’t call it ‘the new normal’

...Hawaii, burned to the ground. As an atmospheric scientist, I get asked at least once a week if the wild weather we’ve been having is “caused” by climate change. This...
Posted On 12 Oct 2023
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2023 was the hottest year in history — and Canada is warming faster than anywhere else on earth

...weather events that impact societies around the world and across Canada. The atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane have continued to increase and reached record levels in 2023, reaching...
Posted On 13 Jan 2024
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Warmer, wetter world faces lethal future

...millions. The threat comes not just from the extremes of heat of the kind that in 2015 killed an estimated 3,500 in India and Pakistan. It comes from the deadly...
Posted On 03 Aug 2017
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Humans cause growing heat wave danger

...again that human-induced climate change has doubled the probability of record-breaking hot years in the last half century. Extremes of heat can be lethal: in 2003, a long and unprecedentedly...
Posted On 12 Nov 2017
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The Future of Construction in a Warming World

...in one piece in areas where forceful winds are a regular threat. What Are the Effects on Project Timeliness? Weather Predictability Uninterrupted construction work hinges on the weather’s cooperation. Heavy...
Posted On 12 Jan 2024
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