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According to a recent report by the World Bank, some 800 million people in South Asia currently reside in areas where rising temperatures and erratic rainfall are threatening livelihoods and reducing living standards.
But this is an impossible choice; while the science of heat-related health damage is in its infancy, studies have linked exposure to extreme temperatures with kidney disease, micronutrient deficiencies, and even cognitive damage.
Despite years of dire forecasts, the international community has been unable to halt the steady climb in global temperatures, and it is the world’s poorest who are paying the heaviest toll.
Water supplies in many refugee camps, in both Jordan and Lebanon, have been cut to a minimum – a decision that affects millions of people who are already enduring scorching temperatures.
They studied how much light green beans need to thrive; which wavelengths produce the most delicious tomatoes; what temperatures cause basil to flourish; and which combination of nutrients creates the healthiest cauliflower.
Every peer-reviewed study has shown that this is not because of rising temperatures, but because more people live in harm’s way.
It was, of course, nice that world leaders could agree that it would be bad to risk the devastation that could be wrought by an increase in global temperatures of more than two degrees Celsius.
For example, rising temperatures and altered precipitation patterns are already driving up the price of coffee.
Meanwhile, global temperatures in recent months have been at their highest levels in records that go back 130 years.
For almost $20 trillion, temperatures by the end of the century will have been reduced by a negligible 0.05ºC.”
They are also highly effective at combating the “urban heat island effect,” which can result in dangerously high summer temperatures.
Meanwhile, rising temperatures are increasing the likelihood of pests and crop diseases, jeopardizing agricultural productivity and subjecting the population to increasingly frequent heatwaves.
And higher ocean temperatures are leading to more frequent and dangerous cyclones, endangering the country’s coast.
By 2040, projections indicate that an average rise in temperatures of 0.5º Celsius could destroy 8-10% of Pakistan’s crops.
Although precipitation may be affected, higher temperatures would enable agricultural production in colder regions, and CO2 is known to bolster plant growth, even in dry areas.
Both the number and strength of hurricanes are most likely increasing as a result of rising sea-surface temperatures caused by man-made global warming.
Warmer temperatures will boost agricultural production and improve health.
Climate summit after climate summit has failed to affect global temperatures for a simple reason.
Geoengineering can literally reduce temperatures in a matter of hours and days.
Rust thrives when it rains often and temperatures are unusually warm – conditions that are occurring more frequently in these coffee-growing regions.
One more thing: even if we managed to do all this (which we obviously cannot), the impact on global temperatures would be hardly noticeable by 2050.
According to the best-known climate-economic model, this vast undertaking would likely wind up reducing global temperatures by just one-tenth of one degree centigrade (one-fifth of one degree Fahrenheit), while holding back sea-level rises by only one centimeter (less than half an inch).
Other children load and transport items in the markets, where they must pull carts weighing 60-70 kilograms and carry boxes weighing 15 kilograms in temperatures of 50 degrees centigrade.
For many children, even when they do attend school, the collapse of infrastructure, the unavailability of electricity and water, and high temperatures in the summer are hardly conducive to successful study.
Likewise, warming temperatures cause soils to release more CO2, causing yet more warming.
The good news is that if we somehow stopped all emissions today, temperatures would continue to rise only for a decade or so, before stabilizing.
April marked the 400th consecutive month of global temperatures above the twentieth century average.
From Russia to Switzerland, temperatures have been elevated by 4-5º Celsius, and the weather patterns look set to remain highly unusual in 2016.
Indeed, recent assessments by the British Antarctic Survey suggest that temperatures over the Antarctic have increased 3.6 degrees since the early 1970’s, and that warming is taking place far faster than researchers had hitherto believed.
Run on a standard climate model, this would reduce temperatures so trivially – about 0.00002oC in the year 2100 – that it is the equivalent of postponing global warming by the end of the century by a bit more than seven hours.
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