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Climate change killed Europeans in 2003 heat
2016-07-09 15:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Hundreds of west European were killed in the 2003 heat wave by human-induced climate change, scientists say in a ground-breaking report. British researchers say climate change was responsible for the deaths of more than 60 people in London in 2003, and over 500 in Paris. In a rare instance of direct attribution of human mortality to warming temperatures, they say that year`s European heatwave raised the risk of heat-related death by 20% in London, and in Paris by 70%. Using both climate and mortality...
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Hundreds of Deaths in 2003 Heat Wave Linked to Climate Change
2016-07-08 20:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Heat Wave Linked to Climate Change A new study suggests that human-caused climate change could be responsible for a significant portion of the 70,000 deaths that occurred during the record-breaking 2003 European heat wave. The research, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, combined climate modeling with health data for hundreds of fatalities that summer. Climate change, the study found, increased the likelihood of heat-related losses by nearly 70 percent in Paris and 20 percent...
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Climate change plagues Madagascar's poor: 'The water rose so fast.'
2016-07-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Angenie, 21, lives in a country many people think of as an ecological paradise, home to a unique diversity of plants and animals. Yet within the past three years she has witnessed droughts and floods so severe she has had to flee her home to escape them twice. Angenie grew up in southern Madagascar where, as a child, she remembers things being green. But for the past few years a severe drought, blamed on the devastating effects of El Nio, has gripped the southern region. The land got dry,...
Climate Change to Blame for Deaths in 2003 Heat Wave, New Study Says
2016-07-08 14:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: The first attempt by scientists to assess the role of climate change in the deadly European heat waves of 2003 has attributed about half of the 1,050 deaths in Paris and London that summer to the effects of global warming. Tens of thousands of people, many of them elderly, died in France and other European nations in one of the most notable extreme weather events since the turn of the century. The implication of the study, published Thursday in the journal Environmental Research Letters, is that...
Miamis plan to deal with climate change: Make developers pay up
2016-07-08 12:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: It`s hard to ignore climate change in South Florida, what with the city streets that flood at high tide and the worsening storms that routinely claim waterfront homes. Speaking about climate change on a visit to the state last year, President Obama said, "Nowhere is it going to have a bigger impact than here in South Florida. Miami-Dade County has a plan to deal with all this: spend $400 million to build a system of valves, pumps, and raised roadways to lessen the impact of flooding. It`s far-reaching,...
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