People in cities have faced huge increase in heat exposure since 1983

The world’s city dwellers collectively experienced 119 billion days above 30°C in 2016 – a 199 per cent increase on the equivalent 1983 figure of 40 billion days

People in cities have faced huge increase in heat exposure since 1983
Environment 4 October 2021

By Krista Charles

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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Extreme vigor has been a acold greater challenge for municipality populations astir the satellite implicit the past 40 years.

Cities are susceptible to vigor due to the fact that of some clime alteration and thing called the urban vigor land effect – a improvement wherever municipality areas are overmuch hotter than surrounding agrarian regions owed to their higher attraction of built infrastructure and quality activities.

Cascade Tuholske astatine the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his colleagues utilized worldwide municipality colonisation information combined with planetary fine-resolution maximum aerial somesthesia and comparative humidity …

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