[MCN] Warming Will Put Millions More at Flood Risk in Next 20 Years

[Lance Olsen]

Warming Will Put Millions More at Flood Risk in Next 20 Years – Scientists <http://floodlist.com/climate/climate-change-millions-more-flood-risk>
11 JANUARY, 2018
ROME, Jan 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Unless countries urgently boost their flood defences, millions more people will be at risk from river flooding in the next 20 years as…
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“Building on Sun et al. (2014), Mueller et al. (2016) systematically examined the  occurrence of record hot summers since 1950 in many land regions. They found that human influence has made record high summer temperature at least 10 times as likely and projected that the historically hottest summers would become the norm for more than half of the world’s population within 20 years.”

Chao Li et al. Recent very hot summers in northern hemispheric land areas measured by wet bulb globe temperature will be the norm within 20 years.  

Earth’s Future, accepted article. Accepted online October 17, 2017.
 
Open access:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017EF000639/full
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