Labor heat comparison India (IMAGE)

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Labor heat comparison India

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With 2 degrees Celsius of warming, the population of South Asia will experience more than double the exposure to unsafe labor temperatures (left) and will have almost three times the exposure to temperatures that cause lethal heat stress (right).

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Saeed et. al/ Geophysical Research Letters/AGU

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