"Intense #heat is often less visible than other devastating effects of #ClimateChange, such as storms or floods. But it is more deadly.
The "silent killer" was responsible for some 489,000 deaths per year between 2000 and 2019, compared to 16,000 deaths per year from cyclones, according to the UN."
https://www.dw.com/en/extreme-heat-epidemic-hitting-humanity-un-warns/a-69769728
"The CDC’s estimate of #HeatDeaths, about 1,200 Americans a year, is probably at least a tenfold undercount. An estimate from several years ago was that, in the U.S., there are actually in the range of 10,000 to 12,000 heat-related deaths, and that is likely higher today."
Kristie Ebi, an epidemiologist at the University of Washington, has been studying the human health impacts of climate change for decades. In an interview with e360, she makes a case for standardizing how heat deaths are reported and for additional investment in heat resilience.
It's pretty scary.
The 12,000 heat deaths per year is still lower than the 20,000 deaths from gun murders, but heat deaths will be rising as climate change really kicks in.
It shows you that climate change is violence:
it's less clear when the "weapon" is extreme weather, but it is violence nevertheless.
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