Bad news for people living in Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea, and Central America.
of the world during the last decade. As climate change continues to wreak havoc, there is no end in sight—and could even get worse. A new study now shows us which parts of the world might experience the most scorching outcomes thanks to record-breaking heat waves in the future., spells bad news for people living in Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea, and Central America.
To be clear, this new study isn’t saying these will be the hottest parts of the world, or are even the most likely to be struck by a record-breaking heatwave. But they are the parts of the world that are the most underprepared for heatwaves, in part because they have yet to really experience such high summer temperatures and are, therefore, less tested.
“As heatwaves are occurring more often we need to be better prepared,” lead study author Vikki Thompson from the University of Bristol said in a press release. “We identify regions that may have been lucky so far—some of these regions have rapidly growing populations, some are developing nations, some are already very hot. We need to ask if the heat action plans for these areas are sufficient.”
Part of the new findings also caution against the belief that the rest of the world will be fine. Thompson and her co-authors emphasize that statistically implausible extreme heat events can happen anywhere. These kinds of unlikely events have already occurred in nearly a third of the regions assessed where data has been reliably taken since 1959.
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