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PLANET LETTER. The warmer the Earth gets, the more intense the heat waves. And the more humid the extreme heat, the more dangerous it is.
By Mathilde Gardin
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“IBreathable”, “suffocating”, “suffocating”… Since the deadly heat wave of 2003, the French have become accustomed year after year to living with summer heat waves that put the body to the test. The past seven years have been the hottest on record on Earth. And the year 2022 seems set to join them.
While France was experiencing its hottest month of May on record, with an average temperature of 17.8°C, one degree higher than the previous record set in May 2011, and several local records broken according to Météo-France, the northern India and Pakistan were crushed by a heat wave of exceptional duration and earliness, which began in mid-March, even before the monsoon. In Pakistan, temperatures reached…
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