<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="article-meta" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Nature Climate Change 19 June 2017</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""></span><h1 style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><a href="http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/nclimate3322" data-mod_name="featured" data-action="clickthrough_homepage" data-destination="link:Global risk of deadly heat" data-webtrack="true" style="text-decoration: none; display: inline; margin-top: 0px; font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Global risk of deadly heat</font></a></h1><div style="margin: 0.25em 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.4em; overflow: hidden; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Camilo Mora <i class="">et al</i>.</div><div class="standfirst" style="margin: 0.25em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate3322.html" class="">https://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate3322.html</a></div><div class="standfirst" style="margin: 0.25em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class=""></div><div class="standfirst" style="margin: 0.25em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Excerpt from the abstract <b class="">[bold added]</b></div><div class="standfirst" style="margin: 0.25em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class="standfirst" style="margin: 0.25em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14.495px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;" class="">"Around 30% of the world’s population is currently exposed to climatic conditions exceeding this deadly threshold for at least 20 days a year. <b class="">By 2100, this percentage is projected to increase to ~48% under a scenario with drastic reductions of greenhouse gas emissions</b> and ~74% under a scenario of growing emissions. An increasing threat to human life from excess heat now seems almost inevitable, but will be greatly aggravated if greenhouse gases are not considerably reduced."</span></div><div class="">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br class="">“How does one justify trying to cope with what may be intractable problems? <br class="">The very nature of the question belies its origins in the assumption of science <br class="">that one has to believe that all problems are solvable.”<br class=""><br class="">Seymour Sarason. The Nature of Problem Solving in Social Action. <br class="">American Psychologist. April, 1978<br class=""><br class="">----------------------------------------------------------------------<br class="">" ‘Triage’ is a dirty word in some conservation circles, but like many dirty words, <br class="">it describes something common. Whether they admit it or not, conservationists <br class="">have long had to make decisions about what to save.<br class=""><br class="">"As more and more admit it, open discussion about how the decisions are best made <br class="">— by concentrating on particular species, or particular places, or absolute costs, or any <br class="">other criterion — becomes possible. Whichever criteria come into play, one thing <br class="">remains constant. The decisions have to be made quickly."<br class=""><br class="">Emma Marris, "What To Let Go."<br class="">NATURE November 8, 2007</div>
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