UCS Documents Rise Of Lethal Heat, Boosting Calls For Climate Policy

July 19, 2019
As large swaths of the country face a record-breaking heat wave, environmentalists are warning that unchecked climate change will cause extreme and deadly heat across the country and bring “unprecedented” health risks, underscoring their calls for deep cuts in carbon emissions as well as to take major steps to adapt to the threat. Researchers at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) released a July 16 report , “Killer Heat in the United States: Climate Choices and the Future of Dangerously...


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