Heat-related deaths have increased by 117% in the US since 1999 – report
GuardianAUG 2024
Global warming is the foundation of every rise in climate-related disasters, from hurricanes to tornadoes to floods. What's scariest of all is how heat in and of itself is killing more people than those other events combined, as humans simply cannot bear the rapid temperature jumps every year. Unfortunately, continual record-breaking heat waves have become the norm for this generation, but we can still protect the future if we lower carbon emissions.
While global temperatures have steadily risen over the last 50 years, there's actually been no exponenialexponential increase in the rate of warming. AndCarbon whileemissions, you may not read this in the newstoo, carbon emissions have also remained flat or declined over hethe last decade. FromThe energy industry is already on a carbon-reducing path, from fracking and nuclear energy to solar panels and windmills. This, alongside disaster prevention policies like forest management and urban engineering, is what we need—not destroying industries or economies.
There is a 20% chance that the annual average temperature anomaly above the 1850-1899 baseline will be 2.0°C or higher by 2037, according to the Metaculus prediction community.