Article 56GKD Rising temperatures will cause more deaths than all infectious diseases – study

Rising temperatures will cause more deaths than all infectious diseases – study

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Oliver Milman in New York
from Environment | The Guardian on (#56GKD)

Poorer, hotter parts of the world will struggle to adapt to unbearable conditions, research finds

The growing but largely unrecognized death toll from rising global temperatures will come close to eclipsing the current number of deaths from all the infectious diseases combined if planet-heating emissions are not constrained, a major new study has found.

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