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DISASTERS: HEAT WAVE :
ENVIRONMENT: GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE :
COUNTRIES: INDIA:
The Heat and the Death Toll are Rising in India.
Is this a Glimpse of Earth's Future?
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The Heat and the Death Toll are Rising in India.
Is this a Glimpse of Earth's Future?
Global warming could also have a shattering impact on our ability to feed
ourselves
A man covers his head in Hyderabad. Indians have been advised to wear
sunhats and cool cotton clothes as temperatures remain close to 50C.
Photograph: Noah Seelam/AFP/Getty Images
Catherine de Lange
Saturday 30 May 2015 19.01 EDT
The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/31/the-heat-and-the-
death-toll-are-rising-in-india-is-this-a-glimpse-of-earths-future
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/nbocxh7
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Roads have twisted in the heat. Hospitals are overwhelmed by thousands of
dehydrated people, the poor, the elderly and children among the worst hit.
Urgent instructions to wear wide-brimmed hats and light-coloured cotton
clothes, use umbrellas and drink lots of fluid have been issued by the
government.
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India is struggling to cope with one of the deadliest heatwaves to hit the
subcontinent. And its attempt to do so is raising a question for the whole
planet how can humans cope with the kinds of temperatures that scientists
fear may become ever more common?
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In only 10 days, the death toll is reported to have reached around 1,800,
a 20-year high. The brunt of the burden has fallen on the southern state
of Andhra Pradesh, where 1,300 people have died, the highest loss of life
due to heat the state has known, according to officials. By comparison,
447 people in the state died from the heat last year.
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Recent research shows that heatwaves are currently five times more
frequent than they would be in the absence of human-caused warming, and
the chance of any particular heatwave being caused by climate change is
80%, a spokesperson for Greenpeace said, adding that unless efforts are
made to cut carbon emissions, heatwaves are forecast to be 12 times more
likely by 2040.
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These trends will push the capabilities of the human body beyond the
limits of the cooling systems it has evolved and raise serious questions
about the future of food production and farming. Globally, more than half
of all working hours outside the home are spent outdoors, mainly in
agriculture.
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As the heatwave in India shows, those who have to work outside in hot
conditions are at the greatest risk of heat exhaustion and heatstroke.
There are reports that construction workers in the Indian city of Gurgaon
had no choice but to continue working all last week in temperatures higher
than 43C, in order to earn their wage of 200 rupees a day (about 2).
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If everybody had the same lifestyle as Europeans and Americans, it wouldnt
be so much of an issue, but most of the food that is generated and grown
in south-east Asia, Latin America and parts of Africa comes from small
landholders, said Mark Maslin, professor of climatology at University
College London (UCL).
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In the south of the US people in air-conditioned tractors are farming vast
areas in an industrial way, but most of the world works on smallholders
producing enough food to feed themselves and enough surplus to provide
food for the local towns and cities.
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This problem is exacerbated by the fact that humidity in the areas most
affected by climate change poses an insurmountable challenge to the way
the human body deals with heat.
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