Rising temperatures are a growing #humanhealth threat, claiming 489,000 lives globally each year. Next week, I’ll join experts at the Science for Policy Hackathon 🧑🔬🌍 to explore solutions. Adaptation strategies like cooling ❄️ and education 📚 are critical.
Estimating future heat-related and cold-related mortality under climate change, demographic and adaptation scenarios in 854 European cities - Nature Medicine
Modeled analyses of 854 European cities show that net temperature-related mortality will increase because of an increase in heat-related mortality exceeding future reductions in cold-related mortality under current climate change projections and even in the presence of high adaptation scenarios.