Scientists at Columbia conclude a warmer climate will increase the number of temperature-related deaths.
from New Scientist
"The Big Apple is cooking: climate change will increase the number of temperature-related deaths within decades.
"A warmer climate means more extremely hot days in summer, and fewer extremely cold days in winter, meaning people are more likely to die in summer than they used to be, and less so in winter.
"Radley Horton of Columbia University in New York and colleagues have now calculated the net effect. They matched daily temperature data for Manhattan with death rates between 1982 and 1999 to estimate how sensitive the city's population is to temperatures, then used future temperature forecasts to estimate future death rates. In all their 16 models, temperature-related deaths increased almost immediately (Nature Climate Change). …"
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