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World must prepare for more intense heatwaves: UN

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The world should prepare to face increasingly intense heatwaves, the United Nations warns, as countries across the Northern Hemisphere reel from soaring temperatures. "This is entirely consistent with the science of global warming and IPCC reports", says John Nairn, a senior extreme heat advisor at the UN's World Meteorological Organization (WMO), tells reporters during a briefing in Geneva. SOUNDBITE

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