Human-Caused Warming Tripled the Death Toll of European Heat Waves This Summer, New Report Shows
Human-Caused Warming Tripled the Death Toll of European Heat Waves This Summer, New Report Shows
Human-Caused Warming Tripled the Death Toll of European Heat Waves This Summer, New Report Shows - Inside Climate News
Public health researchers struggle to track the accelerating pace of global warming impacts.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/27699028
The grim death toll from heat waves across European cities this past summer would be captured in shocking headlines if they happened all at once, in a bombing or plane crash—835 in Rome, 630 in Athens, 409 in Paris.
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“Experts do not believe that we can adapt health systems adequately to cope with the temperatures that we are currently facing. That’s why reducing fossil fuel use is one of the most important public health interventions of our time.”
Reducing fossil fuel use too rapidly would be suicidal; the rapid increase in temperature would make adaptation more difficult.