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The first real heat wave of the summer is moving east this week. Cursed as I am by my Irish metabolism, and my translucent Irish skin, the summer heat and I never have gotten along. So I’m not looking forward to its arrival in my part of the world. And this study published in
Naturesuggests that, already, the climate crisis is putting most of the world in the same boat.
Across all study countries, we find that 37.0% (range 20.5–76.3%) of warm-season heat-related deaths can be attributed to anthropogenic climate change and that increased mortality is evident on every continent. Burdens varied geographically but were of the order of dozens to hundreds of deaths per year in many locations. Our findings support the urgent need for more ambitious mitigation and adaptation strategies to minimize the public health impacts of climate change.