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Emergency Room Visits and 911 Calls for Heat Illness Spike During Texas Heat Wave
Prolonged 100-plus degree weather has sent hundreds of Texans to emergency rooms this month.
By Martha Pskowski, Gina Jiménez
EL PASO—Record-setting heat in Texas has sent hundreds of people to emergency rooms in recent weeks, according to state health officials.
Related Knowledge Center: Climate science
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What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.