Small Increase in Mean Temperatures Linked to Big Jump in Deadly Heat Waves

Yale e360
Jun 8, 2017, 1:11 pm147 pts
A temperature increase of just 0.5 degrees C — 0.9 F — is enough to have more than doubled the probability of deadly heatwaves in India over the last 50 years, according to research published in the journal Science Advances. That raises worrying implications for many other countries that could…

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