<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=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px 6px 0px 0px;" class=""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.princeton.edu/news/2019/05/08/occurrence-back-back-heat-waves-likely-accelerate-climate-change&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioUMTM0NTYzMjEyMjUxMDk0MjU3NjkyGmJmNmVmOTBmZDkxYzExY2E6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNH14lad2fvuhvfppkfrrikGflwyfg" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?rct%3Dj%26sa%3Dt%26url%3Dhttps://www.princeton.edu/news/2019/05/08/occurrence-back-back-heat-waves-likely-accelerate-climate-change%26ct%3Dga%26cd%3DCAEYAioUMTM0NTYzMjEyMjUxMDk0MjU3NjkyGmJmNmVmOTBmZDkxYzExY2E6Y29tOmVuOlVT%26usg%3DAFQjCNH14lad2fvuhvfppkfrrikGflwyfg&source=gmail&ust=1558455292749000&usg=AFQjCNGCYuupESvuhxi56Sd0Bya0kaOGsw" style="color: rgb(66, 127, 237); display: inline; text-decoration: none; line-height: 20px;" class="">Occurrence of back-to-back <b class="">heat waves</b> likely to accelerate with climate change</a></span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""></span><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><div style="padding: 2px 0px 8px;" class=""><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><a style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Princeton University</font></a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(37, 37, 37); padding: 2px 0px 0px; line-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(37, 37, 37); padding: 2px 0px 0px; line-height: 18px;" class="">As the planet continues to warm, multi-day heat waves are projected to increase in frequency, length and intensity. <span style="color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">The additive effects of these extreme heat events overwhelm emergency service providers and hospital staff with heat-related maladies, disrupt the electrical grid, and can even cause delays in air travel.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(37, 37, 37); padding: 2px 0px 0px; line-height: 18px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(4, 4, 4); font-weight: 700;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.625rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(4, 4, 4); font-variant-ligatures: normal;" class="">But existing studies do not consider the increased loss of life and economic hardship that could come from back-to-back — or compound — heat waves, which bring cycles of sweltering temperatures with only brief periods of normal conditions in between.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.625rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(4, 4, 4); font-variant-ligatures: normal;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Princeton University researchers now have provided the first estimation of the potential damage wrought by sequential heat waves, according to </span><a href="https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2018EF000989" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(4, 4, 4); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(200, 200, 200);" class="">a paper published April 12</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> in the journal Earth’s Future. The authors used computer simulations of Earth’s climate to find that compound heat events will increase as global warming continues and will pose</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""> greater risks to public health and safety.</span></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></div></div></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div class="">^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<wbr class="">^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<wbr class="">^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<wbr class="">^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class="">A study led by Susan Solomon found that the CO2 we add to the atmosphere every day remains there for centuries, “<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">so that atmospheric temperatures do not drop significantly for at least 1,000 years.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class=""><<<a href="https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/106/6/1704.full.pdf" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/106/6/1704.full.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1558455292749000&usg=AFQjCNHy-EcyulhtrU_2_njq296Kp15G4w" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); background-color: transparent;" class="">https://www.pnas.org/<wbr class="">content/pnas/106/6/1704.full.<wbr class="">pdf</span></a>>>.” </div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class="">^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<wbr class="">^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<wbr class="">^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class=""><br class=""></div></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div style="font-family: Verdana;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">“You don’t listen to the science because you are only interested in solutions that will enable you to carry on like before.”<br class=""><br class="">Greta Thunberg’s invited address to the British Parliament<br class=""><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/23/greta-thunberg-full-speech-to-mps-you-did-not-act-in-time" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/23/greta-thunberg-full-speech-to-mps-you-did-not-act-in-time&source=gmail&ust=1558455292749000&usg=AFQjCNG-BSZLqC7lfE6H3Q2MZmBEvfy0jw" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">https://www.theguardian.com/<wbr class="">environment/2019/apr/23/greta-<wbr class="">thunberg-full-speech-to-mps-<wbr class="">you-did-not-act-in-time</a></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>