Climate change causes one-third of heat-related deaths
Huge proportion of global heat-related deaths already attributed to rising temperatures.
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The climate crisis is not a future problem – it is already here and affecting our health. In the biggest study of its kind, a team of epidemiologists and climate scientists has determined that 37% of global heat-related deaths over the past 30 years can be attributed to human-induced climate change.
The study, published in
Nature Climate Change, used data from 1991 to 2018, taken from 732 locations in 43 countries around the world. The results are grim: an increase in mortality since the preindustrial period is evident on every single inhabited continent.
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