Feb 19, 2021
3 min read
27 Ways Climate Change Heat Events Can Kill You
Why we should decarbonize our economy.
Events of extreme heat pose a threat to human life. In the 2003 European heat wave over 70,000 deaths occurred, 10,000 during the Russian heat wave of 2010, unfortunately extreme heat waves are quite common (Mora, Counsell, Bielecki & Louis, 2017). The geographic extent of heat events is increasing with climate change…
