Un estudio publicado recientemente por Ballester et al. (2023) en Nature medicine ha cuantificado los muertos que dejó el calor en Europa el pasado verano.
61.000 seres humanos perdieron la vida el verano del 2022 por las altas temperaturas.
Heat-related mortality in Europe during the summer of 2022 - Nature Medicine
This ecological analysis using the Eurostat database estimated that summer 2022, the hottest summer on record, was associated with over 61,000 heat-related deaths across 35 countries in Europe, with the highest mortality rates in countries near the Mediterranean Sea.