Heavy study confirms: Heat waves are getting longer and harder
Climate change means that heat waves move more and more slowly. As a result, people are exposed to extreme temperatures for longer and longer periods of time, according to a new study. This is reported by several media.
The researchers have analyzed heat waves over four decades and measured their movements over time to be able to determine how fast the warm air moved, writes TT.
The conclusion is that the speed slowed down by around 8 kilometers a day during each decade between 1979 and 2020.
The heat also has economic consequences when work stops and harvests shrink.
- It has a very big impact on public health, says Wei Zhang, climate scientist at Utah State University and one of the people behind the study, to the New York Times.
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The state of the world economy
IMF predicted to revise up global growth: "Lucky stroke"
Global growth is expected to be revised up slightly during the IMF's and the World Bank's spring meeting, which begins on Monday, writes Bloomberg.
The news agency's economists have raised the forecast for 2024 to 2.9 percent, compared to 2.7 percent in December, which is clearly lower than an average year.
"Given expectations that the price of taming rampant inflation would be a series of recessions, a year of moderately slower global growth looks like a stroke of luck," writes economist Tom Orlik in a commentary.
Another series of economic reports will be released when finance ministers and central bankers meet in Washington, writes Reuters.
One question on the agenda is whether the central banks have won the inflation battle or not. At the same time, the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East contribute to pushing up oil prices and worsening inflation, writes Bloomberg.
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Local politics in Stockholm
S-toppen: "Stockholm is an enormously segregated city"
The socio-economic gaps in Stockholm have increased since the turn of the millennium, writes Dagens Nyheter. Individuals with different backgrounds meet each other less often, many do not feel like part of social development and voter turnout decreased in 2022 for the first time in 20 years.
Finance councilor Karin Wanngård (S) believes that there are "two different Stockholms".
- Stockholm is an enormously segregated city.
At the same time, there are positive trends according to the follow-up that the city has now done on a report from 2015. Overcrowding has decreased, the percentage of employed people has increased and sickness absence has decreased.
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