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Hundreds of Deaths in 2003 Heat Wave Linked to Climate Change
2016-07-08 20:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Heat Wave Linked to Climate Change A new study suggests that human-caused climate change could be responsible for a significant portion of the 70,000 deaths that occurred during the record-breaking 2003 European heat wave. The research, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, combined climate modeling with health data for hundreds of fatalities that summer. Climate change, the study found, increased the likelihood of heat-related losses by nearly 70 percent in Paris and 20 percent...
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