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Quoting the article "Pakistan, India reel under intense heat wave" from https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistan-india-reel-under-intense-heat-wave-2
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Quoting the article "Pakistan, India reel under intense heat wave" from https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistan-india-reel-under-intense-heat-wave-2022-04-29/ https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistan-india-re... : "More than a billion people are at risk of heat-related impacts in the region, scientists have warned, linking the early onset of an intense summer to climate change."
"Extreme temperatures in major Latin American cities could be linked to nearly 1 million deaths / An increase of 1°C could mean thousands of additional deaths on very hot days, according to a new study" - https://www.science.org/content/article/extreme-temperatures-major-latin-american-cities-could-be-linked-nearly-1-million https://www.science.org/content/article/extreme-temperatures...
"The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human tolerance" - https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aaw1838 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aaw1838 : "The southern Persian Gulf shoreline and northern South Asia are home to millions of people, situating them on the front lines of exposure to TW extremes at the edge of and outside the range of natural variability in which our physiology evolved (36)."
"Increases of extreme heat-humidity days endanger future populations living in China" - https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac69fc/meta https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac69fc/... : "Many urban population centers in eastern China are expected to frequently experience the extreme heat-humidity events featured by the TWmax well beyond the survivability threshold of 35 °C by the end of this century under SSP5-8.5 scenario"