A fire bomb dropping water in a wildfire near Athens, Greece
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An intense heatwave in June and July killed 2300 people across London and 11 more European cities, a toll that died near climate change. Months can be briefly to determine the impact of climate change in heat deaths, but scientists now make the way to make it easy.
A “hot dome” at high pressure atmospheric brings southwest western and central Europe in late 35˚c in London, 40˚c in pair and 46˚c degree in parts of Spain and Portugal. Wildfires falling across the Mediterranean, nuclear reactors closed in Switzerland and France, and regions of Italy BANNED Work outside after a building worker dies.
The researchers of the World Weather Attribution network used weather data to estimate how severe heat healing, and how it is. Then they mixed their rapid acknowledging research at London’s research and tropical medicine associated with a relationship with each day in European cities. Scientists use this curve at world temperatures and calculations for a world that cannot heat to find the death of climate change.
They estimate that 2300 people die from heat between 23 June and 2 July in Athens, Budaptest, Lisbon, Paris, Sassari and Zobreb. the The analysis is displayed that heatwave can kill 700 people even in a cooler world. But because climate change raises temperatures to four degrees, an additional 1500 deceased. Heat is the most deadly time, but it is a quiet killer who has raised illnesses with diseases and often not recorded in death certificates.
This is the first study to calculate climate-related death after a heatwave. In London, climate change is responsible for 171 235 fatalities. “That for me makes (climate change) more real,” as Friederike Otto to imperial College London. “We need lawmakers to work.”
“Now closer to dangerous heat for many people,” as I’m Clarke to imperial College London. Eight-eight percent of the killers aged 65 or over, the weakest group.
Research can imgarize the dead because it depends on mortality data from a cooler past, according to Kristie Ebi At the University of Washington, not involved in study.
“We don’t know what happens when you reach out to serious temperatures,” he said.
While governments now provide additional Heatwave warnings, answer plans and infrastructure still need improvements. Milan, the hardest hit of 499 killed, suffered from high air pollution, which could be worse with heat. Madrid, where 90 percent of deaths are due to climate change, lacking greenery to prevent the effect of urban heat island effect.
And in London, many buildings are poorly moving. Today, the city can bring drinking water to tube stations and prohibit unimportant vehicle travel during heatwaves, as the otto. Teachers and officers should also tell people about the hazard of heat. “Even if you think you can’t fail, you don’t,” he said.
