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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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Dissecting the ocean's unseen waves to learn where the heat, energy and nutrients go

2015-05-11 07:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: Beyond the pounding surf loved by novelists and beachgoers alike, the ocean contains rolling internal waves beneath the surface that displace massive amounts of water and push heat and vital nutrients up from the deep ocean. Internal waves have long been recognized as essential components of the ocean's nutrient cycle, and key to how oceans will store and distribute additional heat brought on by global warming. Yet, scientists have not until now had a thorough understanding of how internal waves...

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