The issue focused on the federal government's response to a study that found that climate change could prompt thousands of premature deaths from heat waves across the country by 2030. The study, done by researchers at Harvard and Stanford universities and published in Science this month, found that high temperatures could trigger extreme weather events in one in 10 cases of possible future climate change. The study found that nearly half the global population could be at risk in less than a decade. One in 10 of those in need of the intervention is already dead from