Global Warming Responsible for One-third of the World’s Heat Deaths

According to a new study that aimed to calculate the human cost of climate change, more than one-third of the world’s heat deaths each year are due directly to global warming.

  • Scientists say even more people die from other extreme weather events amplified by global warming such as storms, flooding and drought — and the heat death numbers will grow exponentially with rising temperatures.
  • The researchers looked at heat deaths in 732 cities in 43 countries around the globe from 1991 to 2018 and calculated that 37% were caused by higher temperatures from human-caused warming.
  • Scientists used decades of mortality ....
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