Okay so this piece contains a map of fatalities from: drought, wildfire, storm, landslide and flood.
What happened to "heat"?
Last year #heatwaves killed nearly 62,000 in #Europe.
Erasing heat deaths in #Africa is - shall we be charitable - irresponsible at best.
The method to count #HeatDeaths needs to be improved everywhere.
"Currently, about the only consistency in counting #HeatDeaths in the U.S. is that officials and climate specialists acknowledge fatalities are grossly undercounted."
"Global #HeatDeaths are projected to increase by 370% if action is not taken to limit the effects of #GlobalWarming, according to a study published Tuesday in The Lancet, a medical journal.
It found that human-caused #ClimateChange is making health-threatening temperatures more frequent, especially in the #US."
"The eighth annual Lancet Countdown, an international analysis that tracks nearly 50 different health-focused issues affected by climate change, calls for an immediate wind-down of #FossilFuel use.
"The dangers of #ExtremeHeat have become a matter of grave concern in #Europe since devastating heat waves in 2003 killed more than 71,000 people. Another heat wave that hit Moscow and western #Russia in the summer of 2010 led to more than 55,000 #HeatDeaths."
"More than 150,000 people per year are estimated to have died from heatwaves around the globe and the new study reveals regional disparities in #heatwave deaths."
These global maps of heat deaths, heat death ratio, and heat death rates brings home how many of the deaths due to #ExtremeHeat go unreported in English-language media.
"Regardless of where or when a #heatwave strikes, one pattern has been a constant: Older adults are the most likely to die from #ExtremeHeat, and the crisis is worsening.
We study #ClimateChange and population #aging. Our research documents two global trends that together portend a dire future."
"Many vulnerable people in South Asia are already struggling to protect themselves from unbearably high temperatures – which are set to worsen
The humid tropics are all careening towards the 35°C threshold. The city of Jacobabad [#Pakistan] has already breached 35°C #WetBulb temperatures many times. More areas of the country are likely to be exposed to such life-threatening conditions more often due to #ClimateChange. "
"The death certificates of more than 2,300 people who died in the United States last summer mention the effects of excessive heat, the highest number in 45 years of records. With May already breaking heat records, 2024 could be even deadlier."
But
"According to an "excess death" study by Texas A&M’s Dessler and his colleague Jangho Lee, about 11,000 heat deaths likely occurred in 2023 in the U.S."
"Older adults are one of the populations that we classically see as being more vulnerable to the effects of climate change, specifically to effects of #ExtremeHeat.”
@CelloMomOnCars
Heat deaths mainly (not all but mainly) impact the old don't they ? who overwhelmingly caused this clusterfuck with thier personal and voting choices yeah ?
Hmmnm...is this the #ClimateKarma of which they speak ?
Worldwide, I think it's the poor mainly.
It's the poor seniors, the working poor (especially those with outdoor jobs), the babies born to poor parents.
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