Deadly hot summers &#39;to become the norm&#39;
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Blisteringly hot summers similar to the one in 2003 when thousands of people in continental Europe died of heatstroke will become commonplace because of climate change, a study has found.
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Human activity has raised the risk of more heatwaves like last year's, which gave Europe probably its hottest summer since 1500, scientists said on Wednesday.
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The European Environment Agency reported global climate change, including frequent floods, droughts and heat waves, are severe and will continue to worsen.
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This week&#39;s issue of Nature features the first study to demonstrate a link between greenhouse gas emissions and an extreme weather event - in this case, the unusually high temperatures in Europe during the summer of 2003 that led to 14,000 deaths more
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COPENHAGEN -- Rising sea levels, disappearing glaciers in the Alps, and more deadly heat waves are coming for Europeans because of global warming, Europe's environmental agency warned yesterday. The European Environment Agency said much more needs to be done -- and fast. Climate change &quot;will considerably affect our societies and environments for decades and centuries to come,&quot; its 107-page report ...
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The deadly hurricanes that have battered the Southeast and the Caribbean this year may be a sign of things to come as climate change heats up the tropical oceans where such storms are born, scientists warned Thursday.
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The Earth's rapid warming has pushed temperatures to their hottest level in nearly 12,000 years and within a hairbreadth of a million years, a study by the US space agency showed.
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Human activity has raised the risk of more heatwaves like last year&#39;s, which gave Europe probably its hottest summer since 1500, scientists said on Wednesday.
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By LUCIE VAN DEN BERG  WITH stories of Ireland becoming the new Mediterranean due to global warming, many could be forgiven for thinking it has already happened.   The country bathed in the warmest weather of the year at the weekend as the mercury rose to balmy 25 degrees.
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Global warming may cost Spain many of its famous beaches and could push summer temperatures over 50 degrees Celsius by the end of the century, according to research released on Tuesday.
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BBC News website readers in the US and Europe have been describing the extreme heatwaves sweeping their regions.
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MADRAS, India, Dec. 26 -- On a balmy Sunday morning at Marina Beach, Brajita Poulose, 45, her husband, two sons and four other relatives strolled along the shore in the sunshine, enjoying the ocean breeze. Young men were playing cricket, joggers trotted past food vendors, fishermen hauled in their nets. Then, without warning, the placid ocean turned violent.
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A deadly heatwave could be imminent, but global warming may mean fewer temperature-related deaths in the UK, a report says.
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The heatwave which killed thousands in Europe in 2003 could soon seem cool, UK climate scientists say.
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Up to 500 people in Hungary have died in a heatwave in the past week, a top health official says.
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Heat waves in Chicago, Paris, and elsewhere in North America and Europe will become more intense, more frequent, and longer lasting in the 21st century, according to a new modeling study by two scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
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At least 25 deaths were blamed on an excessive eight-day heatwave in Southern California that finally started to cool on Wednesday.