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Articles | Volume 21, issue 15
Articles | Volume 21, issue 15
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-11889-2021
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-11889-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 21, issue 15
Research article
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10 Aug 2021
Research article |  | 10 Aug 2021

The effect of forced change and unforced variability in heat waves, temperature extremes, and associated population risk in a CO2-warmed world

Jangho Lee, Jeffrey C. Mast, and Andrew E. Dessler

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This paper investigates the impact of global warming on heat and humidity extremes. There are three major findings in this study. We quantify how unforced variability in the climate impacts can lead to large variations where heat waves occur, we find that all heat extremes increase as the climate warms, especially between 1.5 and 2.0 °C of the average global warming, and we show that the economic inequity of facing extreme heat will worsen in a warmer world.
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