Heat-related deaths have increased by 117% in the US since 1999 – report
GuardianAUG 2024
Global warming is the foundation of everythe rise in climate-relatedhydrometeorological 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 wehumanity can still protect the future if wecarbon loweremissions carbonare emissionsslashed.
While temperatures have steadily risen over the last 50 years, there's been no exponential increase in the rate of warming. Carbon emissions, too, have remained flat or declined over the last decade. The 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 wehumanity needneeds — 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.