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[https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19062017/heat-waves-world-population-risk-endangered-climate-change-study Inside Climate News 6/19/2017] | [https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19062017/heat-waves-world-population-risk-endangered-climate-change-study Inside Climate News 6/19/2017] | ||
A new online tool explores the number of days per year in places worldwide when heat is likely to exceed a deadly threshold if nothing is done about climate change. | A new online tool explores the number of days per year in places worldwide when heat is likely to exceed a deadly threshold if nothing is done about climate change. | ||
=====Global risk of deadly heat===== | |||
[https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate3322 Nature 06/2017] | |||
Climate change can increase the risk of conditions that exceed human thermoregulatory capacity1,2,3,4,5,6. Although numerous studies report increased mortality associated with extreme heat events1,2,3,4,5,6,7, quantifying the global risk of heat-related mortality remains challenging due to a lack of comparable data on heat-related deaths2,3,4,5. Here we conducted a global analysis of documented lethal heat events to identify the climatic conditions associated with human death and then quantified the current and projected occurrence of such deadly climatic conditions worldwide. | |||
