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To: Brumar89 who wrote (932231)	4/27/2016 11:53:54 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577883

We are trying to create a sense of urgency. The people who are panicked are the ones without food or water because of drought, or who are homeless because of flooding and fire, or who are watching relatives, friends, and total strangers die from heat. People like these... Marathwada's drought: How climate change has destroyed agriculture and ruined farmers firstpost.com BANGKOK— Record-high temperatures and severe drought are causing misery for hundreds of millions of people in Asia. “In Southeast Asia this heat wave joins the historical ones of 1960, 1983 and 1998, but as for duration, intensity and affected area it is definitely the strongest heat wave for Thailand, Laos and Cambodia,” said Maximiliano Herrera, a prominent climatologist who investigates world temperature records. Death toll from the heat expected to rise Last year’s India heatwave officially killed 2,422 people — the country's highest heat-related death toll in more than two decades. This year, more than 150 deaths in India are blamed on the heat over the past two weeks. “I am afraid the heat will persist and increase for the next weeks and unfortunately the death toll will surely rise,” Herrera told VOA. voanews.com