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- noun Plural form of
heatwave .
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Examples
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"Generally speaking when we have 'heatwaves' it takes until the third, fourth or fifth day of protracted heat before it has an effect on the stats," South Australian Ambulance Service duty director Keith Driscoll said.
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In a "Copenhagen Diagnosis" report, 26 leading scientists urged action to cap rising world greenhouse gas emissions by 2015 or 2020 to avoid the worst impacts of climate change such as heatwaves, floods, disease and droughts.
Reuters: Top News 2009
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* Comparing effectiveness of short-term interventions - Different countries have taken a variety of approaches to deal with climate change-related health threats such as heatwaves and floods.
Emaxhealth 2008
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He had been full of passions then, abrupt and devastating ones that propelled him through heatwaves up hillsides in search of dazzling tryptiches in dark churches, that saw him almost kneeling in supplication before heart-stopping beauty.
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The same Act will also ban flash-floods and unseasonable heatwaves.
Government to Legislate for Snow Losses Dungeekin 2009
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When we get another climate shock (like Katrina, or the heatwaves in Europe in 2003), the media will suddenly look for the latest assessment report, and we have to have them ready.
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When we get another climate shock (like Katrina, or the heatwaves in Europe in 2003), the media will suddenly look for the latest assessment report, and we have to have them ready.
Serendipity: What has software engineering got to do with climate change? 2010
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The size of the drains was tripled, hollows that flooded were filled in, roads were modified and altogether the site adapted as much as possible for "heatwaves, intense rainfall or storms."
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When we get another climate shock (like Katrina, or the heatwaves in Europe in 2003), the media will suddenly look for the latest assessment report, and we have to have them ready.
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The same Act will also ban flash-floods and unseasonable heatwaves.
Archive 2009-02-01 Dungeekin 2009
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