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Rapid increase in the risk of heat-related mortality |
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| Author: | Lüthi, Samuel1,2; Fairless, Christopher1; Fischer, Erich M.3; |
| Organizations: |
1Institute for Environmental Decisions, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 2Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, Zurich, Switzerland 3Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
4Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health. Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
5Department of Public Health Environments and Society, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK 6Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil 7Environmental and Occupational Medicine, National Taiwan University (NTU) College of Medicine and NTU Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan 8National Institute of Environmental Health Science, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan 9Graduate Institute of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, NTU College of Public Health, Taipei, Taiwan 10Climate, Air Quality Research Unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 11Center for Climate Change Adaptation, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan 12IBE-Chair of Epidemiology, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany 13Department of Physical, Chemical and Natural Systems, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain 14Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic 15Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic 16School of Epidemiology & Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada 17Environmental Health Science and Research Bureau, Health Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada 18CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health, Madrid, Spain 19Center for Environmental and Respiratory Health Research (CERH), University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland 20Department of Epidemiology, Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge, Lisbon, Portugal 21Centre for Statistical Methodology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK 22Centre on Climate Change & Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK 23Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland 24Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland |
| Format: | article |
| Version: | published version |
| Access: | open |
| Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 2 MB) |
| Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe20231009139302 |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Springer Nature,
2023
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| Publish Date: | 2023-10-09 |
| Description: |
AbstractHeat-related mortality has been identified as one of the key climate extremes posing a risk to human health. Current research focuses largely on how heat mortality increases with mean global temperature rise, but it is unclear how much climate change will increase the frequency and severity of extreme summer seasons with high impact on human health. In this probabilistic analysis, we combined empirical heat-mortality relationships for 748 locations from 47 countries with climate model large ensemble data to identify probable past and future highly impactful summer seasons. Across most locations, heat mortality counts of a 1-in-100 year season in the climate of 2000 would be expected once every ten to twenty years in the climate of 2020. These return periods are projected to further shorten under warming levels of 1.5 °C and 2 °C, where heat-mortality extremes of the past climate will eventually become commonplace if no adaptation occurs. Our findings highlight the urgent need for strong mitigation and adaptation to reduce impacts on human lives. see all
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| Series: |
Nature communications |
| ISSN: | 2041-1723 |
| ISSN-E: | 2041-1723 |
| ISSN-L: | 2041-1723 |
| Volume: | 14 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Article number: | 4894 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41467-023-40599-x |
| OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40599-x |
| Type of Publication: |
A1 Journal article – refereed |
| Field of Science: |
3121 General medicine, internal medicine and other clinical medicine |
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| Funding: |
E.F. acknowledges funding from the EU Horizon 2020 Project XAIDA (grant agreement 101003469) and by the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant 200020_178778). V.H. was supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No.: 101032087). J.K. and A.U. acknowledge funding from the Czech Science Foundation (project 22-24920 S). |
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