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I keep suggesting people stop moving to the US deserts, but it looks like #Brazil is in really deep trouble.

“5 Billion people will face extreme heat [for] at least a month each year by 2050”

https://wapo.st/3L5qYUs

#GiftArticle #ClimateEmergency #HeatWave

Graph: Days with highly dangerous heat in the sun, Wet-bulb globe temperature above 89.6 Farenheit Top axis, timeline: 2000, 2030, 2050 Left axis, number of days Data: Example cities, with number of days of dangerous heat for the 3 years, worst first. (Most of the following numbers are approximated from the visual graph.) Pkanbaru, Indonesia: 310-325-344 worst increase for Belém, Brazil: 48-149-223 Dubai, UAE: 165-180-189 Kolkata, India: 150-170-188 big increase for Nimule, South Sudan: 35-95-159 Phoenix, Arizona, USA: 60-85-102 or + 42 days Freetown, Sierra Leone: 10-45-92 or + 82 days Temperate cities farther north will be less impacted by highly dangerous heat. Washington DC: 1-6-10 Madrid, Spain: 0-4-9
#Brazil #HEATWAVE #climateemergency #giftarticle
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@skry For the convenience of users of SI units system : 89.6°F= 305.15°K = 32.0°C
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