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‘How did we miss this for so long?’: The link between extreme heat and preterm birth

Grist

Basu analyzed 60,000 summertime births — those taking place between May and September — from 1999 to 2006, across 16 California counties. Astrid Riecken / The Washington Post via Getty Images As human-caused climate change continues, the number, intensity and duration of heat waves will only get worse.

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When Extreme Weather Reigns, Disinformation Pours

DeSmogBlog

Accusing people of alarmism has long been a favorite tactic of climate deniers and those who oppose climate action. In Italy, daily newspaper Il Mattino published multiple interviews with climate deniers saying the record heat is “influenced by the sun’s cycles” and “isn’t news.” Changing Extremes.

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Cities need to act on climate adaptation now

Unsustainable

The impacts of climate change are already being felt in South Asia in the form of erratic rainfall patterns predicted by climatologists. In 2006, flooding in Surat left more than 75 percent of the city underwater, causing major economic and other losses. trillion in net benefits between 2020 and 2030.

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Corporate Action on Climate Change Has to Include Lobbying

Andrew Winston

This article is what led to my larger piece about climate leadership which went up on HBR last week. The business world has recently started acting on climate change in earnest. In 2006, some of these same NGOs formed the U.S. First, climate change is real and affecting businesses today.