Climate change blamed as deaths during recent heatwaves tripled
The latest heat waves have doubled the number of heat -dependent deaths throughout Europe with a study that says that climate change would be accused.
Research from the World Weather Relationship Group, in late June and early July, the heat waves were warmer than a world without climate change, he said.
In the first rapid study, which predicted the number of deaths due to climate change in a heat wave, researchers found that human -guided global warming was responsible for about 65 percent of deaths in 12 cities, including London, Paris, Madrid, Barcelona and Rome.
Imperial College London Environmental Policy Center researcher Dr Ben Clarke said: “Heatwaves does not leave a trace of destruction such as fire or storms.
“The effects often are often invisible but quietly destructive – a change of 2 or 3C can mean the difference between life and death for thousands of people.
“Our study shows how dangerous the climate change is already 1.3C heating.
“However, unless countries accelerate the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy, we can reach this century 3C.
“This would bring more deaths to Europe by imposing more pressure on health systems, which caused more deaths.”
Researchers, primarily fossil fuels and caused by the cutting of forests global warming, most of the more intense of Europe, most intensively in Europe made much more intensive.
The scientists behind the study warned that the heat waves were “silently devastating ve and showed how dangerous climate change is, especially for more vulnerable people, especially for older and more vulnerable people.
He also warned that his analyzes focused only on 12 cities and that deaths, which are associated with high temperatures based on climate change throughout Europe, may only have a view and may have reached tens of thousands of people.
The assessment focused on a 10 -day heat, in which a “heat dome üzerinde on Europe squeezed hot dry air and increases the temperatures and intensifies the heat wave from North Africa.
Searing temperatures increased the risk of forest fires in order to prohibit schools in some parts of France in some parts of France, increased the risk of forest fires and triggered health warnings in many countries, including Paris and Amber warnings for many regions of London and the UK.
The researchers used air data to assess the density of heat waves during the hottest five -day periods in a world that saw 1.3C warming and compares the pre -industrial climate.
The analysis showed that heat waves were about 1-4C higher than a world that does not warn 1.3C due to climate change.
Scientists also used existing research on the relationship between heat and the number of deaths in cities to estimate the number of excess deaths caused by heat waves, and compared the number of deaths in heat wave temperatures without climate change.
Directed by scientists in London and London Hygiene and Tropical Medicine School (LSHTM), the study was found as a result of climate change – the number of deaths in the heat wave reached three times the number of deaths in the heat wave.
Climate change found that he was responsible for more deaths in London, 317 in Madrid and 235 in Paris.
Researchers said that most of the deaths are in older age groups and that older people in Europe faced early dying due to longer, warmer and more frequent heat waves.
LSHTM Research Assistant Pierre Masselot said: “While the world warms, heat waves are not going and we should prepare for public health effects.
“Cities can adapt by planting trees, reduce the area given to cars, and look at the most vulnerable person.
“But ultimately, the best way to avoid terrible consequences is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in an aggressive way.”
And at the Imperial Environmental Policy Center, Dr. Friederiye Otto, a professor of climate science, said: “This work emphasizes a simple fact: more oil, coal and gas will kill more people.
“The only way to stop European heat waves is even more deadly is to stop burning fossil fuels,” he warned.
