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Deadly Wildfires Kill at Least 99 in Chile 0224
Climate Change to Kill 14.5 million Humans by 2050, but Mostly Not Directly 0224
Climate Migration Will Leave the Elderly Behind 0124
Scorching Heat Caused Deaths to Double at Busiest US-Mexico Border Route 1023
Old People Burn to Death in Their Home as Mediterranean Wildfire Toll Mounts 0723
Nearly 62,000 People Died from Europe’s 2022 Record-Breaking Heat 0723
Warmer World Risks Extra 9 Million Deaths Annually – WHO 0523
Europe’s Hottest Summer Led to over 23,000 Excess Deaths 1122
Global Pollinator Losses Causing 500,000 Early Human Deaths a Year 0123
Phoenix Could See Deadliest Year for Heat Deaths, after Sweltering Summer 1022
Prolonged Drought Brings Famine, Death and Fear to Somalia 1022
Dozens Killed in Monsoon Flash Floods in Northern India 0822 - in Himalayas northwest of Nepal
Climate Change Is Killing People and Taking Trillions of Dollars 0722
Deaths, Costs of Climate-Linked Disasters May Be Grossly Undercounted 0622
A Project to Count Climate Crisis Deaths Has Surprising Results 0122
A Carbon Calculation - How Many Deaths Do Emissions Cause? 0721
Extreme Heat Is Killing People in Arizona’s Mobile Homes 0721
Historic Pacific Northwest Heat Wave Has Killed 100s in US, Canada in a Week 0721
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100s of Deaths across Canada, Pacific Northwest, amid Unrelenting Heat Wave 0721
Potentially Fatal Combinations of Humidity and Heat Emerging across the Globe 0520 Focus on wet-bulb temperatures, with 35°C or hotter bringing death soon. For details and interactive world map, see "Too Hot & Humid" section of my Bio-Impacts webpage.
Yes, the Climate Crisis May Wipe out 6 Billion People 0919 - "As much as a decade ago, a climate symposium organized to discuss the implications of a 4°C warmer world concluded, 'Less than a billion people will survive.' Here Schellnhuber is quoted as saying: 'At 4[°]C Earth’s... carrying capacity estimates are below 1 billion people.' His words were echoed by professor Kevin Anderson of the U.K.’s Tyndall Centre for Climate Change: 'Only about 10% of the planet’s population would survive at 4 C.”’"
Record 2019 Heat Wave Linked to Climate Change Killed 1,500 People in France 0919
Climate Crisis Already Causing Deaths and Childhood Stunting 0719
Lost Cities and Climate Change 0719 - Cahokia, Huns, 14th century Europe, late Roman empire
Climate Change Causing Premature Deaths in Europe 0619
Climate Change Is Aggravating the Suffering in Yemen 1118
Climate Change Could Double Deaths from Wildfire Smoke 0918
Hurricane Maria’s Death Toll in Puerto Rico Rises to 2,975 - 0818
Adding Up the Cost of Climate Change in Lost Lives 0818
Rising Temperatures Linked to Increased Suicide Rates 0718
Many Killed in Forest Fires near Athens 0718
Study Hikes Puerto Rico's Hurricane Maria Death Toll to 4,645 - 0518
Tougher Climate Policies Could Save a Stunning 150 Million Lives 0318
Weather Disasters to Impact 2 out of 3 Europeans by 2100, Study Says 0817 - 152,000 [heat] deaths a year from weather disasters in Europe by 2100, versus 3,000 a year from 1981 to 2010.
Suicides of Nearly 60,000 Indian Farmers Linked to Climate Change 0717
Food Scarcity due to Climate Change Could Cause 500,000 Deaths by 2050 - 0316
Half Million Die in Decade of Disasters in Asia Pacific 1015
How Climate Change Might Kill People 0715 - More deaths from heat outnumber fewer deaths from cold. Increased temperature variability increases mortality.
The Deadly Combination of Heat and Humidity 0615
Map estimates are from WHO, via John Holdren (see Overviews page).
Table estmates (a decade later) are from from DARA, November 2012, available above under Costs. 400,000 climate-related deaths in 2010 and 632,000 climate-related deaths in 2030.
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