Half a degree and rapid socioeconomic development matter for heatwave risk

Climate extremes, exposure and vulnerability all contribute to global difference in heatwave risk. Here the authors investigated the inequality in global heatwave risk under both 1.5 and 2 °C scenarios and found that heatwave risk for the poor under 1.5 °C scenario exceeds that risk for the rich und...

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Main Authors: Simone Russo, Jana Sillmann, Sebastian Sippel, Monika J. Barcikowska, Claudia Ghisetti, Marek Smid, Brian O’Neill
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/674b4242c7f844c58af38a024ffe420b
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