Nearly 5 billion people lived under extreme temperatures in June, study finds
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Nearly 5 billion people lived under extreme temperatures in June, study finds

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy More than 60 per cent of the world’s population endured extreme heat driven by the climate crisis over nine days in mid-June, according to a new study. Approximately 5 billion people lived in extreme temperatures that were made at least three times more likely due to the climate crisis. “The heatwaves popping up around the world this summer are unnatural disasters that will become more common until carbon pollution stops.” In India, which recorded its longest-ever heatwave this summer, at least 619 million people, over half of the population, experienced severe heat, with maximum temperatures approaching 50C and night-time lows of 37C. “Loss of life and harm to people’s wellbeing will only increase if systemic emitters don’t rapidly rein in the fossil fuels driving dangerous heat spikes and other extreme weather events.”

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Climate extremes in 2024 wreaked havoc on global water cycle
2 days, 10 hours ago

Climate extremes in 2024 wreaked havoc on global water cycle

India Today  

The 2024 Global Water Monitor Report, led by The Australian National University, reveals alarming trends in the global water cycle, driven by unprecedented temperature increases. According to the report, 2024 marked the hottest year on record, with air temperatures over land rising by 1.2 degrees Celsius since the beginning of the century and approximately 2.2 degrees Celsius since the Industrial …

UN declares ‘decade of deadly heat’, calls for action against climate breakdown
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1 week, 2 days ago

UN declares ‘decade of deadly heat’, calls for action against climate breakdown

Hindustan Times  

The world has endured a “decade of deadly heat”, with 2024 capping 10 years of unprecedented temperatures, the UN has said. 'I can officially report that we have just endured a decade of deadly heat,' says UN chief In his new year message, UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres said the 10 hottest years on record have happened in the last decade, …

Decade of deadly heat ends with record year as world warned of ‘road to ruin’
1 week, 3 days ago

Decade of deadly heat ends with record year as world warned of ‘road to ruin’

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The world has endured a “decade of deadly heat”, with 2024 capping 10 years of …

Human impact exposed: 41 days of ‘dangerous’ heat linked to climate change in 2024, says report
1 week, 5 days ago

Human impact exposed: 41 days of ‘dangerous’ heat linked to climate change in 2024, says report

Live Mint  

Human-caused climate change added an average of 41 days of dangerous heat in 2024, harming human health and ecosystems, an analysis for a year-in-review has found. Among other key findings, the report revealed that climate change intensified 26 of the 29 weather events studied by World Weather Attribution that killed at least 3700 people and displaced millions. The result highlights …

'Dangerous new era': climate change spurs disaster in 2024
1 week, 5 days ago

'Dangerous new era': climate change spurs disaster in 2024

Raw Story  

From tiny and impoverished Mayotte to oil-rich behemoth Saudi Arabia, prosperous European cities to overcrowded slums in Africa, nowhere was spared the devastating impact of supercharged climate disasters in 2024. World Weather Attribution, experts on how global warming influences extreme events, said nearly every disaster they analyzed over the past 12 months was intensified by climate change. - Floods - …

Climate change led to 41 additional days of extreme heat in 2024: new report
1 week, 6 days ago

Climate change led to 41 additional days of extreme heat in 2024: new report

The Hindu  

Due to climate change, the world experienced an average of 41 more days of extreme heat in 2024, a new report said on Friday. A yearly review report by two groups of climate scientists — World Weather Attribution and Climate Central — said the world saw an average of 41 more days of dangerous heat in 2024. "It is likely …

Climate change added 41 days of dangerous heat around world in 2024
1 week, 6 days ago

Climate change added 41 days of dangerous heat around world in 2024

Associated Press  

People around the world suffered an average of 41 extra days of dangerous heat this year because of human-caused climate change, according to a group of scientists who also said that climate change worsened much of the world’s damaging weather throughout 2024. “The finding is devastating but utterly unsurprising: Climate change did play a role, and often a major role …

Climate change adds 41 extra days of dangerous heat globally in 2024
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1 week, 6 days ago

Climate change adds 41 extra days of dangerous heat globally in 2024

India Today  

People around the world suffered an average of 41 extra days of dangerous heat this year because of human-caused climate change, according to a group of scientists who also said that climate change worsened much of the world’s damaging weather throughout 2024. “The finding is devastating but utterly unsurprising: Climate change did play a role, and often a major role …

Why do so many people ignore major threats like climate change?
1 month ago

Why do so many people ignore major threats like climate change?

Salon  

Earlier last month, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service announced that Earth’s average temperature in 2024 had been on average 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial levels. “For too long now, scientific and media communications have presented the subject of climate change in ways that have failed to trigger an adequate threat warning among readers and viewers, and have also …

Young people are dying of heat and their risks could grow, study finds
1 month ago

Young people are dying of heat and their risks could grow, study finds

NPR  

Young people are dying of heat and their risks could grow, study finds toggle caption Ulises Ruiz/AFP via Getty Images Extreme heat puts stress on everyone's bodies. "Young people are disproportionately vulnerable to heat," says Andrew Wilson, an environmental scientist at Stanford University and an author of the new analysis. But "sometimes we forget to talk about this population in …

Terrifying study predicts exactly how many people will DIE from climate change by 2100
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Terrifying study predicts exactly how many people will DIE from climate change by 2100

Daily Mail  

A terrifying new study has predicted exactly how many people will die from climate change by 2100. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry used advanced numerical simulations to estimate the mortality attributable to air pollution and extreme temperatures. Their analysis indicates that a staggering 30 million people could perish by the end of the century thanks to climate …

A shadow ‘financial crisis’ has cost the world $2 trillion
1 month, 4 weeks ago

A shadow ‘financial crisis’ has cost the world $2 trillion

CNN  

CNN — Last month, two major storms, Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton, caused a total of between $51.5 billion and $81.5 billion of property damage, mostly to Southeastern US states, according to estimates from CoreLogic. The report from the International Chamber of Commerce, which comes as the United Nations Climate Change Conference begins in Azerbaijan this week, estimated that the …

Health risks of climate change reach record-breaking levels
2 months, 1 week ago

Health risks of climate change reach record-breaking levels

China Daily  

By Jonathan Powell | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2024-10-31 21:02 Children play at an improvised soccer field in the dry area of Lake Tefe, amid what the national disaster monitoring agency Cemaden has already called Brazil's worst drought since at least the 1950s, in Tefe, Amazonas State, Brazil October 18, 2024. People worldwide faced an unprecedented 50 extra days of health-threatening …

United Nations urges nations to adopt several proposals aimed at reducing heat deaths; asks to care for vulnerable people
5 months, 2 weeks ago

United Nations urges nations to adopt several proposals aimed at reducing heat deaths; asks to care for vulnerable people

The Hindu  

After three of Earth's hottest days ever measured, the United Nations called for a flurry of efforts to try to reduce the human toll from soaring and searing temperatures, calling it “an extreme heat epidemic.” “If there is one thing that unites our divided world, it's that we're all increasingly feeling the heat,” United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said …

UN chief calls for action to stem ‘extreme heat epidemic’
5 months, 2 weeks ago

UN chief calls for action to stem ‘extreme heat epidemic’

Al Jazeera  

Antonio Guterres urges countries to shift away from fossil fuels to tackle the climate crisis driving extreme heat. Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Antonio Guterres said billions of people around the globe are experiencing “an extreme heat epidemic” fuelled by climate change. “Extreme heat is increasingly tearing through economies, widening inequalities, undermining the Sustainable Development Goals, and killing people,” the …

Humans caused climate change. Amid the suffering, now they must solve it
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Humans caused climate change. Amid the suffering, now they must solve it

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Climate change is driving extreme weather By all accounts, …

Extreme heat and weather threaten health at nearly every stage of life, WHO says
7 months ago

Extreme heat and weather threaten health at nearly every stage of life, WHO says

LA Times  

As the planet continues its streak of record-breaking heat, the World Health Organization has issued urgent new warnings about the ways in which climate change is affecting the most vulnerable members of society at almost every stage of life. In fact, the United Nations Children’s Fund, or UNICEF, has found that half of the world’s children are at extremely high …

Climate change caused 26 extra days of extreme heat in last year: report
7 months, 1 week ago

Climate change caused 26 extra days of extreme heat in last year: report

The Hindu  

The world experienced an average of 26 more days of extreme heat over the last 12 months that would probably not have occurred without climate change, a report said on May 28. They concluded that "human-caused climate change added — on average, across all places in the world — 26 more days of extreme heat than there would have been …

How much worse will extreme heat get by 2050? New report outlines worrisome future
7 months, 2 weeks ago

How much worse will extreme heat get by 2050? New report outlines worrisome future

LA Times  

The next quarter of a century will bring considerable climate danger to millions of Americans living in disadvantaged communities, who will not only experience increased exposure to life-threatening extreme heat but also greater hardships from reduced energy reliability, a new nationwide report has found. Under a moderate-emissions scenario — one in which current fossil fuel consumption peaks in the coming …

Charge of the climate brigade: Women and activists are suing governments for failing to protect their right to life
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Charge of the climate brigade: Women and activists are suing governments for failing to protect their right to life

Hindustan Times  

India’s Supreme Court has, for the first time, weighed in on climate change, ruling that citizens have a right to lead a life safe from its adverse effects. Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg talks with Rosmarie Wydler-Walti, of the Swiss elderly women group Senior Women for Climate Protection The apex court was hearing a petition filed by wildlife activist M.K. …

Two years to save the world from climate catastrophe
8 months, 4 weeks ago

Two years to save the world from climate catastrophe

Live Mint  

“Two years to save the world.” As far as opening lines of speeches go, that would be dramatic in most contexts. In fact, there’s growing disquiet among climate scientists that it is possible that the rate of climate impacts may have been understated—the world seems to be heading for runaway temperature rise; and climate “tipping points” that had seemed far …

Climate crisis may kill 14.5 million people and inflict USD 12.5 trillion economic loss by 2050
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Climate crisis may kill 14.5 million people and inflict USD 12.5 trillion economic loss by 2050

New Indian Express  

The analysis is based on scenarios developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on the most likely trajectory for the planet’s rising average temperature -- 2.5°C to 2.9°C over pre-industrial levels.Shyam Bishen, Head, Centre for Health and Healthcare and member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum, warned: “Over the next decade, the failure to mitigate and adapt to …

"Nobody and nowhere will be safe": Experts say we can't hide from climate change
11 months, 4 weeks ago

"Nobody and nowhere will be safe": Experts say we can't hide from climate change

Salon  

In science fiction movies that imagine a climate catastrophe, characters are often driven to flee disastrous conditions and retreat to a safer place to live. Whether seeking the mysterious territory of Dryland in "Waterworld" or fleeing from all northern latitudes in "The Day After Tomorrow," pop culture foregrounds the notion that one can somehow "run away" from climate change. The …

2023 confirmed as hottest year ever as climate records ‘tumbling like dominoes’
11 months, 4 weeks ago

2023 confirmed as hottest year ever as climate records ‘tumbling like dominoes’

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The findings are hardly surprising, but a global gut-punch nonetheless: 2023 has been confirmed as …

How does climate change threaten where you live? A region-by-region guide.
1 year, 1 month ago

How does climate change threaten where you live? A region-by-region guide.

Raw Story  

This story was originally published by Grist. “Whether it’s wildfires or floods or drought, whether it’s extreme heat or storms, we know that climate change has made its way into our lives and it’s unfolding as predicted.” The report outlines steps every level of government can take to combat the climate crisis. — Akielly Hu Northwest Idaho, Oregon, Washington Climate …

Planet Earth Is On Life Support, Scientists Warn
1 year, 2 months ago

Planet Earth Is On Life Support, Scientists Warn

Huff Post  

If Earth were a human, it would already be in the emergency room. An international team of scientists on Tuesday issued a new assessment of planetary health that says the world has entered “uncharted climate territory” and that “life on planet Earth is under siege.” The report, published in the journal BioScience, found that 20 of 35 identified “vital signs” …

2.2 billion people could face heat waves beyond survival limit: Study
1 year, 2 months ago

2.2 billion people could face heat waves beyond survival limit: Study

Hindustan Times  

India and the Indus Valley will experience the first deadly moist heat waves and, subsequently, substantial increases in accumulated hot hours per year, a new paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has said. The paper led by Penn State College of Health and Human Development and the Purdue College of Sciences and Purdue’s Institute for a …

Climate change ‘dystopian future already here’
1 year, 3 months ago

Climate change ‘dystopian future already here’

Al Jazeera  

Climate change is causing human rights emergencies around the world, the United Nations human rights chief says, specifically highlighting Iraq’s “spiralling damage” from global warming. In view of the record global temperatures this year, Guterres last week called for much more ambition in the fight against climate change to prevent “the worst climate chaos”. At last year’s UN COP27 climate …

CLIMATE GLIMPSE: Here's what you need to see and know today
1 year, 5 months ago

CLIMATE GLIMPSE: Here's what you need to see and know today

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Tropical Storm Khanun's path toward the Korean Peninsula raised …

UK’s 40C summer of 2022 ‘will seem cool’ as extreme weather events become frequent, Met Office warns
1 year, 5 months ago

UK’s 40C summer of 2022 ‘will seem cool’ as extreme weather events become frequent, Met Office warns

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The sweltering 40C summer in Britain last year “will be considered cool” by the turn …

Playing with fire: We are not just breaking heat records, we are smashing them
1 year, 5 months ago

Playing with fire: We are not just breaking heat records, we are smashing them

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The frequency and intensity of recent …

Human-induced climate crisis responsible for killer heatwaves sweeping planet, scientists say
1 year, 5 months ago

Human-induced climate crisis responsible for killer heatwaves sweeping planet, scientists say

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The researchers evaluated the role of climate crisis in these extreme heat events using peer-reviewed methods, weather station data …

World unlikely to limit temperature rise to 2C, warns climate scientist
1 year, 5 months ago

World unlikely to limit temperature rise to 2C, warns climate scientist

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A leading climate scientist has said he is “very pessimistic” about the world reducing emissions …

Our 'Scorched Planet' is getting hotter, and no one is immune to rising temperatures
1 year, 5 months ago

Our 'Scorched Planet' is getting hotter, and no one is immune to rising temperatures

NPR  

Our 'Scorched Planet' is getting hotter, and no one is immune to rising temperatures Author Jeff Goodell warns a new climate regime is coming: "We don't really know what we're heading into and how chaotic this can get." And one of the scary things that's happening right now - not just with heat, but heat is the clearest expression of …

Extreme heat contributed to more than 60,000 deaths in Europe last year
1 year, 5 months ago

Extreme heat contributed to more than 60,000 deaths in Europe last year

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “The findings of the current study, with over 61,000 estimated heat-related deaths, further support the evidence that heatwaves have …

World Environment Day: What is the human cost of inaction?
1 year, 7 months ago

World Environment Day: What is the human cost of inaction?

Live Mint  

When we talk about the cost of the climate crisis, the implications are almost always depicted in financial terms. “For every 0.1ºC of warming above present levels, about 140 million more people will be exposed to dangerous heat,” said Professor Tim Lenton, director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter, and one of the co-authors of the …

Explained: how a temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius impacts billions
1 year, 7 months ago

Explained: how a temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius impacts billions

The Hindu  

Published : May 24, 2023 16:00 IST - 5 MINS READ About two billion people will live in hazardous heat conditions by the end of the century if climate policies continue on their current trajectory, according to new research published in the Nature Sustainability journal. “It invariably distorts value away from human lives and towards centres of wealth,” Ashish Ghadiali, …

How a temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius impacts billions
1 year, 7 months ago

How a temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius impacts billions

Hindustan Times  

About 2 billion people will live in hazardous heat conditions by the end of the century if climate policies continue on their current trajectory, according to new research published in the Nature Sustainability journal. Limiting warming to the lower Paris accord target of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels would still expose 400 million people to dangerous heat levels by …

Scientists warn dangerous levels of heat will threaten two billion people
1 year, 7 months ago

Scientists warn dangerous levels of heat will threaten two billion people

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Climate inaction could expose more than two billion people to dangerous heat conditions, with the …

Climate crisis made April’s heatwave across Asia 30 times more likely
1 year, 7 months ago

Climate crisis made April’s heatwave across Asia 30 times more likely

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The blistering heatwaves experienced in April across a dozen countries in Asia were made “at …

The challenges and promises of climate lawsuits
1 year, 7 months ago

The challenges and promises of climate lawsuits

The Hindu  

Lawsuits against emissions-spewing governments and fossil fuel companies have established themselves as a key tool in the battle against climate change, but they aren't always successful Even the temperate, mountainous country of Switzerland isn't immune to climate change. "One of the reasons it's so important to look closely at these cases and the impact they're having is because their impact …

Window of opportunity to preserve liveable climate rapidly closing, says IPCC
1 year, 9 months ago

Window of opportunity to preserve liveable climate rapidly closing, says IPCC

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Scientists from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said there needs to be drastic and deep GHG emissions cuts …

Extreme weather events are becoming more severe, not less
55 years ago

Extreme weather events are becoming more severe, not less

Associated Press  

CLAIM: Climate, weather or meteorological events that we would classify as “extreme” have declined in severity over the last 20 or 30 years. Scientific research has documented how events including extreme precipitation, droughts and forest fires have become more frequent and severe as a result of climate change. THE FACTS: A podcast clip shared on Instagram this week falsely claims …

The UN’s climate handbook for a ‘liveable’ future
1 year, 9 months ago

The UN’s climate handbook for a ‘liveable’ future

Al Jazeera  

Hitting the 2015 Paris Agreement temperature goals will require a massive reduction in fossil fuel use and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society, IPCC reports say. Earth is hotter than it has been in 125,000 years but deadly heatwaves, storms and floods amplified by global warming could be a foretaste as planet-heating fossil fuels put a “liveable” future at …

Extreme heat is a health crisis, Columbia experts say
1 year, 10 months ago

Extreme heat is a health crisis, Columbia experts say

Associated Press  

The record-breaking heat Earth endured during the summer of 2022 will be repeated without a robust international effort to address climate change, a panel of scientists warned Monday. Radley Horton, a research professor at Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, stated that human-induced climate change has caused the global average atmospheric temperature to warm by about 2 degrees in the last several …

As Extinction Rebellion pauses disruptive tactics, what have its climate protests achieved?
1 year, 11 months ago

As Extinction Rebellion pauses disruptive tactics, what have its climate protests achieved?

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. That Halloween, hundreds of people gathered at UK Parliament to protest the government’s failure to tackle the climate crisis …

Editorial: 2022 brought more heat and pollution. We’re still careening toward climate disaster
1 year, 11 months ago

Editorial: 2022 brought more heat and pollution. We’re still careening toward climate disaster

LA Times  

New climate data show that 2022 was among the hottest years on record but that U.S. greenhouse gas emissions just keep rising. Another study showed the amount of heat being taken up by Earth’s oceans reached another record high last year. And it’s another stark reminder that despite some recent progress on climate policy, such as the passage of the …

90% of humans will suffer extreme heat, drought due to climate change: report
1 year, 11 months ago

90% of humans will suffer extreme heat, drought due to climate change: report

Salon  

If you are reading this article, there is a 9 out of 10 chance that you live somewhere that will experience future extreme heat weather events due to climate change. In an analysis published for the scientific journal Nature Sustainability, Oxford's Professor Louise Slater and Wuhan University's Dr. Jiabo Yin explain that as the planet's temperature continues to rise, there …

Is climate change affecting global health?
2 years, 1 month ago

Is climate change affecting global health?

The Hindu  

The story so far: Even as countries are meeting at the ongoing Climate Change Conference in Egypt, a recent report by Lancet, has traced in detail the intimate link between changing weather events and their impact on the health of people. The 2022 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change: Health at the Mercy of Fossil Fuels points out that …

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