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Study blames global warming for over 1 in 3 heat-related deaths – Al Jazeera English
Scientists involved in the study warn heat death numbers will grow exponentially with rising temperatures.
More than one-third of the worlds heat deaths each year are directly due to global warming, according to the latest study to calculate the human cost of climate change.
But scientists say that is only a sliver of climate changes overall toll even more people die from other extreme weather amplified by global warming such as storms, flooding and drought and the heat death numbers will grow exponentially with rising temperatures.
Dozens of researchers who looked at heat deaths in 732 cities around…
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