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Sep 23, 2024 · With increasing temperatures, healthcare risks linked to protracted spells of intense heat are growing troublingly. The summer of 2024 saw over 2 billion people facing 30 or more days of extreme temperatures caused by climate change.
Sep 25, 2024 · This article provides an overview of the scientific background related to the subject of global warming. It considers the causes of rising near-surface air temperatures, the influencing factors, the process of climate research and forecasting, and the possible ecological and social impacts of rising temperatures.
Sep 12, 2024 · Even in a more optimistic 1.5°C warming scenario, about 80 million people may experience extreme heat conditions, with mean annual temperatures surpassing 29°C - a threshold considered the upper limit of the historically conserved human climate niche.
Sep 19, 2024 · An ambitious effort to understand the Earth’s climate over the past 485 million years has revealed a history of wild shifts and far hotter temperatures than scientists previously realized —...
Sep 11, 2024 · August 2024 set a new monthly temperature record, capping Earth’s hottest summer since global records began in 1880, according to scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. The announcement comes as a new analysis upholds confidence in the agency’s nearly 145-year-old temperature record.
Sep 24, 2024 · India must adopt better monitoring systems and set more ambitious climate targets to address global extreme temperatures, independent expert group Climate Crisis Advisory Group said on Monday.
Sep 10, 2024 · Last year was the Earth’s warmest on record, with the average global temperature for 2023 exceeding the preindustrial (1850–1900) average by 2.43 degrees Fahrenheit, according to scientists...
