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Heat Waves: Exposure to Increase 4-Fold by 2050
2015-05-18 23:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: With climate change causing much of the world's hot extremes, heat waves are likely to become more common. Well, now new research shows that, at least in the United States, exposure to extreme heat could increase four- to six-fold by 2050, due to both a warming climate and a population that's growing especially fast in the hottest regions of the country. Surprisingly, extreme heat kills more people in the United States than any other weather-related event. And with blazing heat becoming the new...
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Studies: Climate change to bring more heat waves, stronger hurricanes
2015-05-18 22:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: Talk about your summer bummer. The number of Americans sweltering through stifling heat waves could well quadruple over the next few decades, according to a study Monday in the British journal Nature Climate Change. As if that weren't enough, a separate study in the same journal said hurricanes are likely to become more intense, even as their number declines. In the heat wave study, researchers said people living in Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas, Houston, Oklahoma City, Phoenix, Tampa and San...
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California facing extreme heat waves and rising seas
2015-04-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: A day after California imposed mandatory water restrictions to battle a four-year drought, a new study on global warming suggests the worst is yet to come. The average number of days with temperatures higher than 95 degrees Fahrenheit (35 degrees Celsius) may double or even triple by the end of the century, threatening one of the worlds richest agricultural regions. At the same time, $19 billion in coastal property will likely disappear as sea levels rise, the study found. The report is the...
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Graphene Meets Heat Waves
2015-03-20 04:52:10| rfglobalnet Home Page
EPFL researchers have shed new light on the fundamental mechanisms of heat dissipation in graphene and other two-dimensional materials. They have shown that heat can propagate as a wave over very long distances. This is key information for engineering the electronics of tomorrow.
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Summer heat waves may be linked to Arctic warming
2015-03-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Before the summer of 2010, Moscow had never recorded a triple-digit temperature, with records going back to 1879. But during a weeks-long heat wave that June and July, the city's temperatures soared well above normal, setting an all-time record high of 102°F on July 30. A new study suggests that Arctic warming could have helped trigger that epic heat wave. This map shows how much temperatures over Russia varied from normal between July 20-17, 2010, with redder colors showing much warmer than normal...
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