Nights are getting way too hot to handle
by Justine Calma from The Verge - All Posts on (#62C9K)
The sunset viewed from Saint Endellion, on July 17th, 2022, in Cornwall, England, after the Met Office issued a red alert warning for extreme heat for the first time. | Photo by Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images Summer nights are getting increasingly dangerous thanks to climate change. By 2100, the risk of death from excessively hot nights is expected to grow six-fold compared to 2016 - even under the most optimistic predictions of future global warming, according to a new study published in the journal The Lancet Planetary Health.
Hot nights are becoming both more frequent and way more intense, the study authors found. We don't know just how much the planet will heat up in the future, but scientists have estimates for best- and worst-case scenarios. When looking at a more middle-of-the-road forecast for future climate change, hot nights become 75.6 percent more frequent by the end of the century. The average intensity of a sweltering night...