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In an open letter to Rudd, the scientists said unless the rise in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was halted soon, many millions of people would be at risk of heatwaves, drought, fire and floods. Global warming is expected to give London and its surrounding area longer, hotter summers as well as warmer, wetter winters with the added problems of more frequent heatwaves, droughts and flash floods from rising sea levels and downpours. The 2003 European heatwaves caused 35,000 excess deaths, 15,000 of which occurred in France (Grynszpan, 2003; Stott, Stone, & Allen, 2003; Le Tertre et al. |
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