PhysOrg: New research published today has found that climate change is unlikely to reduce the UK's excess winter death rate as previously thought.
The study is published in the journal Nature Climate Change and debunks the widely held view that warmer winters will cut the number of deaths normally seen at the coldest time of year.
Analysing data from the past 60 years, researchers at the University of Exeter and University College London (UCL) looked at how the winter death rate has changed over time,...