{"id":9588,"date":"2024-05-15T16:47:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T16:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internationalpulse.net\/?p=9588"},"modified":"2024-05-15T16:47:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T16:47:01","slug":"asia-just-had-a-deadly-heat-wave-and-scientists-say-it-could-happen-again-heres-whats-making-it-much-more-likely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalpulse.net\/?p=9588","title":{"rendered":"Asia just had a deadly heat wave, and scientists say it could happen again. Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s making it much more likely."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Hundreds of people died across Asia in recent weeks as the region sweltered under blistering temperatures. And a new study determined a leading factor in how it all happened.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last month, many areas in India saw temperatures well above triple digits. The country&#8217;s meteorological service says that <span class=\"link\">heat waves<\/span> are not uncommon between March and June, with May being the &#8220;peak month&#8221; for the extreme weather event. In Bhagdora, India, last month, temperatures <span class=\"link\">hit nearly 115 degrees<\/span> Fahrenheit as the India Meteorological Department issued a red alert warning, meaning that severe heat was expected to persist for more than two days and there was a very high likelihood for heat-related illnesses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the country, it was so hot that schools were canceled, an issue that people also faced in the Philippines. People in Thailand were also asked by officials to stay indoors when possible to avoid the heat, as dozens of people had already died from heat-related illnesses. According to the\u00a0Associated Press, the April heat killed at least 28 people in Bangladesh, five in India and three in Gaza.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"newsletter_signup \">\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-newsletter-widget embed--float-none embed--size-large embed--type-iframe\" data-ads=\"{\" wordcount=\"\">\n<\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>And according to the organization World Weather Attribution, it all comes down to two words \u2013 <span class=\"link\">climate change<\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img alt=\"Daily Life During The Heatwave On The Outskirts Of Kolkata, India \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/05\/15\/59e703cd-33d0-4a86-b1ae-fea394501cad\/thumbnail\/620x413\/1b45e544eaeacf2424bad1790b64c59c\/gettyimages-2150030725.jpg?v=fc8d024e10db3fe720fa4908dcd79bea 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/05\/15\/59e703cd-33d0-4a86-b1ae-fea394501cad\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/99a043fd3211c4054734f34637e55171\/gettyimages-2150030725.jpg?v=fc8d024e10db3fe720fa4908dcd79bea 2x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\">An elderly person is bathing beside a road on a hot summer day on the outskirts of Kolkata, India, on April 28, 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Sudipta Das\/NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;The heat wave exacerbated already precarious conditions faced by internally displaced people, migrants and those in refugee camps and conflict zones across West Asia,&#8221; a new study from the organization said. &#8220;&#8230; The extreme heat has forced thousands of schools to close down in South and Southeast Asia.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Researchers said that while the kind of heat experienced during this time &#8220;is not very rare,&#8221; it&#8217;s only being amplified by climate change, which is fueled by <span class=\"link\">global warming<\/span> largely caused by the burning of fossil fuels.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>West Asia is anticipated to get an <span class=\"link\">extreme heat event<\/span> once a decade, and in the Philippines, that likelihood is even less, about once every 20 years when El Ni\u00f1o isn&#8217;t at play. In South Asia at large, extreme heat is not common.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img alt=\"Bangkok Battles Extreme Heat \" height=\"414\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/05\/15\/736d6f78-f74b-4ec4-903b-7b832c35c2e1\/thumbnail\/620x414\/6169b5da02220d875a4d2b8fb478c006\/gettyimages-2149984299.jpg?v=fc8d024e10db3fe720fa4908dcd79bea 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/05\/15\/736d6f78-f74b-4ec4-903b-7b832c35c2e1\/thumbnail\/1240x828\/6a82e5ab2ad20fd26627a0233201f780\/gettyimages-2149984299.jpg?v=fc8d024e10db3fe720fa4908dcd79bea 2x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\">A man unloads blocks of ice from a truck during high temperatures in Bangkok, Thailand, on Sunday, April 28, 2024.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Andre Malerba\/Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;An extremely warm April such as this one is a somewhat rarer event, with a 3% probability of happening in a given year \u2013 or once every 30 years,&#8221; researchers said, adding that observations and data models show that human-caused climate change creates a &#8220;strong increase in likelihood and intensity.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the Philippines, the change in likelihood is so large that the event would have been impossible without human-caused climate change,&#8221; they said. &#8220;In West Asia, climate change increased the probability of the event by about a factor of 5.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The average April temperatures in South Asia, which the group has studied twice in the last two years from other extreme events, &#8220;are now about 45 times more likely and 0.85 degrees Celsius hotter,&#8221; they found.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sounds like a broken record \u2013 yes! But heat is still underreported, underrecorded and extremely deadly,&#8221; Friederike Otto, who is part of the World Weather Attribution study, said on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FrediOtto\/status\/1790657429576790094\" target=\"_blank\">social media<\/a>. &#8220;The world is not prepared for today&#8217;s climate change, let alone the future.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Extreme heat is &#8220;becoming the silent killer,&#8221; Ko Barrett, deputy secretary-general of the World Meteorological Organization, said in April.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span class=\"link\">Heat-related mortality<\/span> is widely under-reported and so the true scale of premature deaths and economic costs \u2013 in terms of reduced labor productivity, agricultural losses, and stress on the power grid &#8211; is not accurately reflected in the statistics,&#8221; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The report from the World Weather Attribution came a day ahead of another report from the WMO that found this April was the warmest one on record and the 11th consecutive month of <span class=\"link\">record temperature worldwide<\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The average surface air temperature last month was 15.03 degrees Celsius, about 59 degrees Fahrenheit, more than 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial times. Scientists have warned that if the planet experiences persistent temperatures at that 1.5 threshold, it could cause significant impacts on weather events leading to global issues surrounding food and water availability, migration and <span class=\"link\">infrastructure<\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The record temperatures were accompanied by <span class=\"link\">high-impact weather events<\/span>\u00a0\u2014 including intense heat in many parts of Asia,&#8221; the WMO said. &#8220;The heat also had a large impact on agriculture, causing crop damage and reduced yields, as well as on education, with holidays having to be extended and schools closed in several countries, affecting millions of students.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It will take years of this continued breaching of 1.5\u00a0degrees above preindustrial levels for the planet to officially mean humans have failed to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement and launched the world into a more disastrous climate era. However, 11 months of record heat \u2013 and potentially beyond \u2013 indicates &#8220;early signs of getting perilously close to exceeding the long-term limit,&#8221; the United Nations says.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every fraction of a degree of warming matters. With every additional increment of global warming, changes in extremes and risks become larger,&#8221; the international agency says. &#8220;&#8230; We need to bend the global emissions curve \u2014 and the production and consumption of coal, oil, and gas &#8211; downwards, starting now. A wide range of solutions exist.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Arshad R. 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