This article Extreme heat in PH made worse by climate change - study was originally published in GMA News Online. People shield their faces from the sun during a hot day in Manila, April 19, 2024 ...
Extreme heat has left hundreds of millions of people sweltering in record-breaking temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) over the past few weeks across a broad swath of Asia.
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Climate change played a role in the hotter-than-normal days seen in various parts of Asia, including the Philippines, in April, a group of scientists said. Guided by peer-reviewed methodologies, ...
In South Asia, which was the focus of two such studies in 2022 and 2023, abnormal heat was found to be 45 times more likely to occur, and to be 0.85C higher due to climate change.