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Study blames climate change for 37% of heat deaths
Even more people die from other extreme weather amplified by global warming, such as storms, flooding and drought.
By SETH BORENSTEINAssociated Press
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Mourners attend a funeral in 2015 for unclaimed people who died of extreme weather, in Karachi, Pakistan, after a devastating heat wave that killed 800.
Shakil Adil/Associated Press
More than one-third of the world’s heat deaths each year are due directly to global warming, according to the latest study to calculate the human cost of climate change.
But scientists say that’s only a sliver of climate’s overall toll – even more people die from other extreme weather amplified by global warming such as storms, flooding and drought – and the heat death numbers will grow exponentially with rising temperatures.