recent heat waves Triple has seen the number of deaths related to heat across Europe, with a study saying that climate change is to blame.
In late June and early July Heatwaves were up to 4C hotters in European cities as compared to a world. Climate change, The research group said about the world weather of researchers.
In the first rapid study to estimate the number of deaths related to climate change in a heatwave, researchers found that human-powered global warming was responsible for about 65 percent of deaths in 12 cities including London, Paris, Madrid, Barcelona and Rome.
Dr. Ben Clarke, the researcher at the Center for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London, said: “Heatwaves do not leave a mark of destruction like wildfires or storms.
“Their effects are mostly invisible, but quietly disastrous – just 2 or 3c changes can mean the difference between life and death for thousands of people.
“Our study shows how dangerous climate change is with only 1.3C warming.
“However, we can reach 3C in this century, unless countries move infections from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
“It will bring fierce heatwave to Europe, which will lead to more deaths and will put more pressure on health systems.”
Global warming, mainly due to humans that burning fossil fuels and cutting forests, very intensive heat of Europe last month created heat, researchers found.
The scientists behind the study warned that the heatwaves were “quietly destructive” and their research showed that already dangerous climate change was only with 1.3C warming, especially for older and more weak people.
He also warned that his analysis focuses only on 12 cities, which provides only one snapshot of climate change-powered deaths across Europe, which may have reached thousands.
The assessment was focused on 10 days of heat from June 23 to July 2, when a “heat dome” high pressure system in Europe trapped the warm dry air and pushed the temperature, as well as pulling the hot air from North Africa, which was intensifying the heat.
Searring temperatures motivated schools to shut down in some parts of France, banning outdoor work during the hottest parts of the day in Italy, increased the risk of forest fire, and triggers health alerts in many countries, including Paris and Amber Alerts a red alert for many parts of London and England.
Researchers have used weather figures to assess the intensity of heatwave over their five-day period in a world, with a 1.3C warming and compared to cooler pre-industrial climate.
The analysis showed that the heatwaves were about 1–4C more than a world that did not warns 1.3C due to climate change.
Scientists used existing research on relationships between heat and the number of daily deaths in cities to estimate the number of additional deaths due to heatwave and compared it to the “counter -action” of the number of deaths in the heat temperature without climate change.
Under the leadership of scientists of the Imperial College London and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), 1,500 of the 2,300 estimated heat deaths were found in 1,500, the result of climate change was the result of climate change – equal to the tripling of the number of deaths in the heat due to global warming.
The study found that climate change was responsible for the estimated 171 additional deaths in London, 317 in Madrid and 235 in Paris.
Most of the deaths were in old age groups, the researchers said, “Dying causes the face due to long, warm and more frequent heat, highlighting the rising risks in Europe.
Research Fellow of LSHTM, Dr. Pierre Messlot said: “The rate at which the world is warming, heatwaves are not going away and we have to prepare for their public health effects.
“The city can plant trees, reduce the place given to cars and take care of the weakest people.
“But eventually, the best way to avoid serious consequences is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions aggressively.”
Professor at Climate Science at Center for Environmental Policy at Imperial. Frederek Otto said: “This study throws light on a simple fact: more oil, coal and gas burning will kill more people.
“The only way to prevent European Heatwaves from becoming even more deadly is to stop burning fossil fuels,” he warned.
