A new study has calculated that more than one-third of global heat deaths can directly be attributed to human-caused climate change.
As a second major heat bears down on Southern California, experts are warning the public to take seriously the health dangers of extreme temperatures.Sao Paulo, Brazil, which is South America’s most populous city, has the most climate-related heat deaths, averaging 239 a year, researchers found.
About 35% of heat deaths in the United States can be blamed on climate change, the study found. That’s a total of more than 1,100 deaths a year in about 200 U.S. cities, topped by 141 in New York. Honolulu had the highest portion of heat deaths attributable to climate change, 82%. Scientists used decades of mortality data in the 732 cities to plot curves detailing how each city’s death rate changes with temperature and how the heat-death curves vary from city to city. Some cities adapt to heat better than othersThen researchers took observed temperatures and compared them with 10 computer models simulating a world without climate change. The difference is warming caused by humans.
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