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Gayatri Pariwar

A new study has found that 30 percent of the world’s population is currently exposed to potentially deadly heat for 20 days per year or more-and like a growing forest fire, climate change is spreading this extreme heat. Without major reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases such as CO2, up to three in four people will face the threat of dying from heat by 2100. However, even with reductions, one in two people at the end of the century will likely face at least 20 days when extreme heat can kill, according to the analysis, published on Monday (19th June, 2017) in Nature Climate Change.
“Lethal heatwaves are very common. I don’t know why we as a society are not more concerned about the dangers,” says Camilo Mora of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the study’s lead author.
[ Reported By Stephen Leahy (Ref: National Geographic – Climate Change, Published on June 19, 2017) ]