<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px;" class="">Nature Editorial.<span class="m_-4833183846076883875gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>June 22, 2017</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px;" class=""><b class="">Concluding<span class="m_-4833183846076883875gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>paragraphs</b></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><p class="m_-4833183846076883875gmail-p3" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 23.9px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="m_-4833183846076883875gmail-s1" style="font-kerning: none;">From extreme rainfall to rising sea levels, global warming is expected to wreak havoc on human lives. Sometimes, the most straightforward impact — the warming itself — is overlooked. Yet heat kills. The body, after all, has evolved to work in a fairly narrow temperature range. Our sweat-based cooling mechanism is crude; beyond a certain combination of high temperature and humidity, it fails. </span></p><p class="m_-4833183846076883875gmail-p3" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 23.9px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="m_-4833183846076883875gmail-s1" style="font-kerning: none;">To be outside and exposed to such an environment for any length of time soon becomes a death sentence.</span></p><p class="m_-4833183846076883875gmail-p3" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 23.9px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="m_-4833183846076883875gmail-s1" style="font-kerning: none;">And that environment is spreading. A death zone is creeping over the surface of Earth, gaining a little more ground each year. </span></p><p class="m_-4833183846076883875gmail-p3" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 23.9px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="m_-4833183846076883875gmail-s1" style="font-kerning: none;">As an analysis published this week in <i class="">Nature Climate Change</i> shows, since 1980, these temporary hells on Earth have opened up hundreds of times to take life (C. Mora <i class="">et al.</i> <i class="">Nature Clim. Change</i> <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3322" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3322&source=gmail&ust=1552434598058000&usg=AFQjCNFxdj6w4RkRSttPm0kYib8zFhC9rw" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><span class="m_-4833183846076883875gmail-s2" style="font-kerning: none; color: rgb(92, 121, 150);">http://dx.doi.org/10.<wbr class="">1038/nclimate3322</span></a>; 2017). At present, roughly one-third of the world’s population lives for about three weeks a year under such conditions. If greenhouse-gas emissions continue to rise unchecked, that figure could climb, exposing almost three-quarters of the population by the end of the century.</span></p><p class="m_-4833183846076883875gmail-p4" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 23.9px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="m_-4833183846076883875gmail-s3" style="font-kerning: none;">The analysis also reveals that even aggressive reductions in emissions will lead the number of deadly heatwaves to soar in the coming decades. Cities including London, New York, Tokyo and Sydney have all seen citizens die from the effects of excessive heat. By 2100, people in the tropics could be living in these death zones for entire summers. It’s true that warmer winters will save lives further north. And those living in urban environments may find ways to adapt to the new norm of extreme heat.<span class="m_-4833183846076883875gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="m_-4833183846076883875gmail-p3" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 23.9px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="m_-4833183846076883875gmail-s1" style="font-kerning: none;">But, if the researchers are correct, the politics of Pruitt and those who try to hold him to account will seem quaint and anachronistic to our grandchildren. For they will live in a world in which most will see the environment less as something to protect, and more as something to protect themselves and their families from.</span></p><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: small; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><span class="m_-4833183846076883875gmail-s3" style="font-kerning: none;"><i class="">Nature</i> <b class="">546,</b> 452 (22 June 2017) doi:10.1038/546452a</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: small; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><span class="m_-4833183846076883875gmail-s3" style="font-kerning: none;"><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: small; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><span class="m_-4833183846076883875gmail-s3" style="font-kerning: none;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" 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; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">**********************************</div><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; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">"No one wanted to pay attention to the implications of a world four degrees warmer… It's too horrendous to think about. And no one talked about it. Then a few scientists said let's have a conference and actually talk about it. They held this conference in Oxford and I went along. As the conference started, there was a kind of suppressed emotional intensity, except in the coffee breaks. It was then that I would buttonhole a couple of scientists and say: 'Well, you know we're speculating about this. But what do you really think is the situation?' And one of them just looked at me and said: 'We're f--ked.'" — Clive Hamilton </div><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; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"> <br class="">Paul Kennedy. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Thursday September 07, 2017<br class=""><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/are-we-f-ked-decoding-the-resistance-to-climate-change-1.4277614" class="">http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/are-we-f-ked-decoding-the-resistance-to-climate-change-1.4277614</a></div><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; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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