Annual heat-related deaths projected to increase significantly due to climate and population change
Balazs Barabas
The annual number of heat-related deaths in England and Wales is set to rise up to fiftyfold over the next 50 years because of climate change, finds new research by UCL and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Their paper, published in PLoS Climate , analysed the impacts of 15 different combined climate change and socio-economic scenarios over the next fifty years, comparing different levels of warming, different amounts of adaptation to protect against the effects of a warming
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