U.S., China meet on climate as world temperatures near record highs
were soaring to historic highs as the world’s two biggest carbon emitters, the United States and China, sought on Monday to reignite talks on climate change.
With scientists saying the target of keeping global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius of pre-industrial levels is moving beyond reach, evidence of the crisis was everywhere.Wildfires in Europe raged ahead of a second heat wave in two weeks that was set to send temperatures as high as 48C.And nearly a quarter of the U.S. population fell under extreme heat advisories, partly due to a heat dome that has settled over western states.
Prolonged high temperatures in China are threatening power grids and crops and raising concerns about a repeat of last year’s drought, the most severe in 60 years. Typhoon Talim was gaining strength and due to make land at night along China’s southern coast, forcing the cancellation of flights and trains in the regions of Guangdong and Hainan.In South Korea, torrential rains left 40 people dead as river levees collapsed causing flash floods. They followed the heaviest recorded rain in the capital Seoul last year.
An anticyclone nicknamed Charon – who in Greek mythology was the ferryman of the dead – could cause Europe to break its highest recorded temperature of 48.8C, possibly on the Italian island of Sardinia, according to Italy’s Air Force weather service.The high temperatures are especially risky for people like teenage sisters Matilde and Angelica Aureli from Rome, who during extreme heat can only venture outside after 9 p.m. because of their albinism.
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