Global Warming Bringing More Extreme Heat Waves – More Extremely Hot Days Projected – 30 Large Cities Especially Vulnerable, Published August 25, 2009: “More extremely hot summer days are projected for every part of the country, detailed in a new report from the National Wildlife Federation and Physicians for Social Responsibility. To explain the bigger picture and provide recommendations for how to cope with projected changes and how to avoid the worst impacts of global warming, Report – More Extreme Heat Waves: Global Warming’s Wake Up Call, August 2009 details how:

• Global warming will bring more extreme heat waves
• Urban air pollution could be exacerbated by more extreme heat
• Heat waves disproportionately impact people who are poor, elderly, children, or have asthma or heart disease, or live in big cities
• Natural habitats and agriculture are also vulnerable to heat waves
• We can reduce the severity of heat waves and their impacts on vulnerable people.”
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