Study Quantifies Climate-Change-Related Deaths
- Abstract
A study in Environmental Research Letters suggests a fifth of premature deaths during a 2003 heatwave in Europe are linked to human-caused climate change. “We are now able to put a number on the deaths caused by climate change in a heat wave,” said lead author Daniel Mitchell of the University of Oxford. “This has never been done before. Previous studies have attributed changes in heat waves to climate change, or related increased heat stress to human deaths, but none have combined the two.”
- Resource Type
- Magazine/newspaper article
- Author
- T Profeta
- Resource URL
- http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2016/07/14/study-quantifies-climate-change-related-deaths/
- Publication
- National Geographic
- Date
- July 14, 2016
- Organization Type
- News
- Health and Human Impact
- Heat illness/extreme temperature
- Climate and Environmental Impact
- Heat
- Region
- International
- Other
- Health surveillance