WHO: Extreme heat kills 175,000 a year in Europe
Extreme heat kills over 175,000 people a year in Europe, according to the European branch of the World Health Organization (WHO) according to AFP.
According to the WHO, temperatures are rising faster in Europe than in any other part of the world - twice as fast as the global average. Over the past two decades, heat-related deaths in Europe have increased by 30 percent.
"People are paying the ultimate price," says WHO European Director Hans Kluge in a statement
Extreme heat kills over 175,000 people a year in Europe, according to the European branch of the World Health Organization (WHO) according to AFP.
According to the WHO, temperatures are rising faster in Europe than in any other part of the world - twice as fast as the global average. Over the past two decades, heat-related deaths in Europe have increased by 30 percent.
"People are paying the ultimate price," says WHO European Director Hans Kluge in a statement
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Summer Olympic Games in Paris
The Olympics are boiling in a heat wave – fueled by the climate crisis
The heat wave plaguing Olympic athletes in Paris would have been basically impossible without human-caused climate change. This is confirmed by leading climate scientists in a new report according to Politico.
- If the atmosphere had not been full of emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, Paris would have been around three degrees cooler and safer for sports, says Friedrike Otto at World Weather Attribution, who wrote the report.
The heat in Paris is linked to the so-called heat dome that lay over the Mediterranean area in July, and led to at least 23 deaths and several large forest fires.
The Olympics are boiling in a heat wave – fueled by the climate crisis
The heat wave plaguing Olympic athletes in Paris would have been basically impossible without human-caused climate change. This is confirmed by leading climate scientists in a new report according to Politico.
- If the atmosphere had not been full of emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, Paris would have been around three degrees cooler and safer for sports, says Friedrike Otto at World Weather Attribution, who wrote the report.
The heat in Paris is linked to the so-called heat dome that lay over the Mediterranean area in July, and led to at least 23 deaths and several large forest fires.
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