Heatwaves in the U. S. and floods in western Europe have dominated the news cycle recently, forcing us to re-examine the relationship between climate change and extreme weather. Other catastrophes are going unnoticed.In the past week, 380,000 people have been evacuated due to floods in China...
Widespread drought led to record heat extending over much of the lower 48 states, with several distinct heat waves leaving few parts of the country untouched. In late June, a broad upper-level ridge began to migrate eastward from northwestern Mexico, bringing excessively warm temperatures aloft (...
A new report from scientists at Climate Central, the Red Cross, and World Weather Attribution found that climate change added nearly a month’s worth of extremely hot days over the last year. Florida, Arizona, and Hawaii felt some of the biggest increases in heat waves driven by climate chan...
Black Mambo, Exxus and Woozy. The song Psylla was included in the CD of their first album ZABA . This song is about the nature. “Psylla is a genus of sap-sucking insects.”which is so true as to what's being talked about in the s...
As heat waves continue to ravage(损坏) the planet, air conditioners are becoming more and more common. However, these "active" cooling devices are posing problems because the electricity consumption which most people are concerned about and the release of ozone damaging chemicals worsen the greenhous...
1 In the next 30 years, we could see more heat waves like___ now occurring in the US or the kind that swept across Europe in 2003 that caused tens of thousands of deaths. A. those B. that C. this D. the one 2 In the next 30 years, we could see more heat waves like___ ...
Anderson, G. B. & Bell, M. L. Heat waves in the United States: mortality risk during heat waves and effect modification by heat wave characteristics in 43 U.S. communities.Environ. Health Perspect.119, 210–218 (2011). ArticlePubMedGoogle Scholar ...
over seven hundred people had perished-more than twice the number that died in the Chicago Fire of 1871, twenty times the number of those struck by Hurricane Andrew in 1992-in the great Chicago heat wave, one of the deadliest in American history.Heat waves in the United States kill more ...
How heat waves can kill – and how to stay safe Worldwide, June 2019 was the hottest June ever, according to more than a century of weather records How to stay safe in this week’s heat wave How your health is at risk during a heatwave GO...
As the extreme heat waves now affecting parts of Europe, Asi a and the US make clear,homes in any are a of the would badly need to be changed to help deal with a hotter climate.The quickest, simplest solution is to equip (安装) air conditioning. But this would lead to a huge increa...