INQUIRER.net: Too late to stop extreme heat waves – study

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Too late to stop extreme heat waves – study Aug 14th 2013, 23:46 PARIS – Climate change will trigger harsher and more frequent heat waves in the next 30 years regardless of the amount of Earth-warming carbon dioxide we emit, a study said Thursday.   But targets adopted today for curbing greenhouse gas emissions will determine whether the pattern stabilizes thereafter, or grows even worse.   High temperatures and heat waves in the last decade are widely blamed on climate change that occurred over the last 50 years – amounting to global warming of about 0.5 degrees Celsius (0.9 deg Fahrenheit), said the study in the journal Environmental Research Letters.   And they are predicted to become harsher and more freque... Keep on reading: Too late to stop extreme heat waves – study Media files: japan-heat-wave.jpg (image/jpeg)

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