Study blames global warming for over 1 in 3 heat-related deaths
Al Jazeera
Scientists involved in the study warn heat death numbers will grow exponentially with rising temperatures.
More than one-third of the world’s heat deaths each year are directly due to global warming, according to the latest study to calculate the human cost of climate change. But scientists say that is only a sliver of climate change’s overall toll – even more people die from other extreme weather amplified by global warming such as storms, flooding and drought – and the heat death numbers will grow exponentially with rising temperatures. Dozens of researchers who looked at heat deaths in 732 cities around the globe from 1991 to 2018 calculated that 37 percent were caused by higher temperatures from human-caused warming, according to a study published on Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change.
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