Global & Disaster Medicine

A recent World Bank report concluded, rising temperatures in SE Asia could diminish the living standards of 800 million people.

July 18th, 2018

NYT

2017 Was the Second Hottest Year on Record

“……a recent analysis of climate trends in several of South Asia’s biggest cities found that if current warming trends continued, by the end of the century, wet bulb temperatures — a measure of heat and humidity that can indicate the point when the body can no longer cool itself — would be so high that people directly exposed for six hours or more would not survive……..”

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