"If action is not taken immediately my grandson will live in a world suffering heat waves, severe droughts and floods.
We know human-caused warming is making drought and heat more severe – that leads to fires like the one we are seeing.
Despite sweltering heat and severe smog, hundreds of thousands of people marched here on Thursday to demand democracy and, to an extent not seen in previous marches, to criticize Beijing.
They have little choice but to work through extreme heat and severe weather.
The UN says we have 12 years to keep global temperatures under 1.5C, otherwise things will go very badly wrong: intensified floods, droughts and extreme heat with severe effects for the poorest of the world's population.
The worst travails of violence, wildfires, extreme heat, and severe drought can be found here, yet in many such moments there is a concomitant experience of being part of a larger whole.
The 4C scenarios are devastating; inundations of coastal cities, unprecedented heat waves, severe drought, food and water scarcity...That world would be so dramatically different from today's that it is hard to describe.
Take immediate action by moving a child inside and giving liquid (if possible)if you notice symptoms of heat exhaustion, severe dehydration or heat stroke.
These true stress-strain curves are intended to support numerical simulations of fracture of steel members and connections subjected to heating in severe fires.
The large neutron absorption cross section, and associated sample heating, impose severe experimental demands on the design of the sample cell.
