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Climate change killed Europeans in 2003 heat
2016-07-09 15:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Hundreds of west European were killed in the 2003 heat wave by human-induced climate change, scientists say in a ground-breaking report. British researchers say climate change was responsible for the deaths of more than 60 people in London in 2003, and over 500 in Paris. In a rare instance of direct attribution of human mortality to warming temperatures, they say that year`s European heatwave raised the risk of heat-related death by 20% in London, and in Paris by 70%. Using both climate and mortality...
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