{"id":23463,"date":"2025-03-07T13:18:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T14:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=23463"},"modified":"2025-03-07T15:23:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T15:23:04","slug":"climate-change-made-south-sudan-heat-wave-more-likely-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=23463","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change Made South Sudan Heat Wave More Likely, Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Years of war and food insecurity in the region made the extreme heat especially dangerous.<\/p>\n

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After a blistering February heat wave in South Sudan\u2019s capital city caused dozens of students to collapse from heat stroke, officials closed schools for two weeks. It was the second time in less than a year<\/a> that the country\u2019s schools closed to protect young people from the deadly effects of extreme heat.<\/p>\n

Climate change, largely caused by the burning of fossil fuels in rich nations, made at least one week of that heat wave 10 times as likely, and 2 degrees Celsius hotter<\/a>, according to a new study by World Weather Attribution. Temperatures in some parts of the region soared above 42 degrees Celsius, or 107 degrees Fahrenheit, in the last week of February.<\/p>\n

The analysis used weather data, observations and climate models to get the results, which have not been peer reviewed but are based on standardized methods<\/a>.<\/p>\n

South Sudan, in the tropical band of East Africa, was torn apart by a civil war that led to independence from Sudan in 2011<\/a>. It\u2019s also one of the countries least responsible for the greenhouse gas emissions that are heating up the globe. \u201cThe continent has contributed a tiny fraction of global emissions, but is bearing the brunt of climate change,\u201d said Joyce Kimutai, a researcher at the Center for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Heat waves are one of the deadliest extreme weather events<\/a> and have become more frequent and more severe on a warming planet. But analysis methods connecting heat to mortality vary between and within countries, and death tolls can be underreported and are often unknown for months after an event.<\/p>\n

Prolonged heat is particularly dangerous for children, older adults and pregnant women. For the last three weeks, extreme heat has settled over a large region of continental Eastern Africa, including parts of Kenya and Uganda. Residents have been told to stay indoors and drink water, a difficult directive for countries where many people work outdoors, electricity is sporadic, access to clean water is difficult and modest housing means there are few cooling systems.<\/p>\n

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Years of war and food insecurity in the region made the extreme heat especially dangerous.After a blistering February heat wave in South Sudan\u2019s capital city caused dozens of students to collapse from heat stroke, officials closed schools for two weeks. It was the second time in less than a year that the country\u2019s schools closed to protect young people from the deadly effects of extreme heat.Climate change, largely caused by the burning of fossil fuels in rich nations, made at least one week of that heat wave 10 times as likely, and 2 degrees Celsius hotter, according to a new study by World Weather Attribution. Temperatures in some parts of the region soared above 42 degrees Celsius, or 107 degrees Fahrenheit, in the last week of February.The analysis used weather data, observations and climate models to get the results, which have not been peer reviewed but are based on standardized methods.South Sudan, in the tropical band of East Africa, was torn apart by a civil war that led to independence from Sudan in 2011. It\u2019s also one of the countries least responsible for the greenhouse gas emissions that are heating up the globe. \u201cThe continent has contributed a tiny fraction of global emissions, but is bearing the brunt of climate change,\u201d said Joyce Kimutai, a researcher at the Center for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London.Heat waves are one of the deadliest extreme weather events and have become more frequent and more severe on a warming planet. But analysis methods connecting heat to mortality vary between and within countries, and death tolls can be underreported and are often unknown for months after an event.Prolonged heat is particularly dangerous for children, older adults and pregnant women. For the last three weeks, extreme heat has settled over a large region of continental Eastern Africa, including parts of Kenya and Uganda. Residents have been told to stay indoors and drink water, a difficult directive for countries where many people work outdoors, electricity is sporadic, access to clean water is difficult and modest housing means there are few cooling systems.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23465,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23466,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23463\/revisions\/23466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}