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This article hardly even BEGINS to mention all the droughts over the world.
How about Brazil and other countries in South America?
How about Palestine, Syria, Egypt, Iran (countries that no American publication can mention in a sypathetic light)?
From Kevin Hester -
"You know we are in deep trouble when the zoo is feeding it's prisoners frozen food to keep them alive when hundreds of millions of people around the world are starving and thousands dropping dead when they hit their wet bulb temperature limit. Billions of us will soon start dropping like flies and no one will pay attention until they are white and like now it will be too late to do anything productive."
6
Devastating Heat Waves Hitting the Planet
23
June, 2015
Need
proof that we’re having the hottest
year on record?
Scorching heat is searing parts of the world, sparking
wildfires
and claiming lives due to heat stroke and dehydration.
A
young boy in Calcutta, India keeps himself cool amid a relentless
heat wave that has killed thousands of people in his country. Photo
Credit: Saikat Paul
/ Shutterstock.com
1.
India.
The
relentless heat since mid-April has claimed about 2,330
lives,
overwhelming hospitals and devastating the country. As we
previously reported,
officials have blamed the heat on global warming.
“It’s
not just another unusually hot summer—it is climate
change,”
said Dr. Harsh Vardhan, India’s Minister of Science and Technology
and Earth Sciences. “Let us not fool ourselves that there is no
connection between the unusual number of deaths from the ongoing
heatwave and the certainty of another failed monsoon.”
Temperatures
have neared 122 degrees Fahrenheit (50 degrees Celsius), causing
roads
to literally melt
in New Delhi.
Heat wave in India is literally melting the roads with temps up to 48 °C / 118 °F.http://t.co/TNMvePI5Dj pic.twitter.com/j8gx5DYOz7
— Imgur (@imgur) May 26, 2015
2.
Pakistan.
India’s neighboring country is also suffering from the horrible
heat, with the city of Karachi experiencing temperatures of 113
degrees Fahrenheit (45 degrees Celsius). According to BBC
News,
the weather has led to the deaths of nearly 700 people, mostly poor
and elderly.
Making
matters worse, with Pakistanis observing the holy month of Ramadan
and fasting during daylight hours, an increased
use of electricity
for air conditioning has caused outages on their already-unstable
grid.
In Video: As deadly heat wave hits Pakistan, Al Jazeera speaks to families of victimshttp://t.co/nk8VX7H62A pic.twitter.com/McYpZQCD18
— AJE News (@AJENews) June 22, 2015
3.
The U.S. Southeast.
Over
on our shores, temperatures in the American South are about 5-15
degrees higher than usual with temperatures ranging between 100 and
115 degrees Fahrenheit, AccuWeather
noted. Southerners, especially in southern Georgia and Florida,
are also sweltering in the extreme humidity (in the upper 60s and
70s), making it feel even hotter, Weather.com
reported.
A dangerous heat wave will persist across the South this week. http://t.co/F8yA3t07Hfpic.twitter.com/9fQ1W6wu63
— AccuWeather.com (@breakingweather) June 22, 2015
Those
on the West Coast should also brace for extreme heat and wildfires
later this month, due to a shift
in the jet stream pattern.
4.
Alaska.
Not only are glaciers
rapidly melting,
the northernmost U.S. state experienced record heat at the end of May
where parts of Alaska recorded
temperatures higher than in Arizona.
Unseasonably
high temperatures, unpredictable winds and low humidity have been the
perfect storm for wildfires to break out in the state, and as of last
Sunday, more
than 100 new fires
have ignited across the state.
5.
Israel.
Temperatures
recently reached 113 degrees Fahrenheit (45 degrees Celsius) in some
parts of the country, causing
fires
to break out.
In
the photo below, animals kept in Israeli zoos are being fed frozen
treats to help cool off.
IN PICTURES: Heat wave washes over Israel http://t.co/KtVtKrNKZhpic.twitter.com/Bvw6hOrlhK
Last
month, a 20-year-old tourist from Florida died after taking a fall
while hiking the desert fortress of Masada on one of the hottest days
of the year. The scary part? According to the Associated
Press,
she didn’t die from injuries from the fall, but from dehydration.
6.
Japan.
The East Asian country has been shattering their temperature records.
According to the Weather
Channel,
in the city of Otsu in Hokkaido, its April high of 89.4 degrees
Fahrenheit (31.9 degrees Celsius) smashed the usual high of 50.9
degrees Fahrenheit (10.5 degrees Celsius). And just this month,
roughly 780 people across the country were admitted into hospitals
due to a heat wave, Sputnik
reported. So far, two people have been reported dead due to the heat.
While the current rainfall must be a welcome reprieve, several prefectures have issued warnings of possible landslides and flooding, according to Sputnik.
— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) June 16, 2015
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