Michael Le Page in New Scientist:
Europe’s most extreme heatwave so far may have killed between 17,000 and 25,000 people, according to an early estimate based on past deaths from heat in the region.
“These numbers are preliminary,” says Christopher Callahan at Indiana University. “But they highlight the need for rapid adaptation investments to avoid these impacts in the future.”
Callahan’s estimate is based on a study his team published last year. “We’re taking data on temperature and mortality across Europe, and we are correlating how high temperatures relate to excess mortality rates,” says Callahan. “We then use that relationship to infer how a given heatwave affects mortality over a region like Europe.”
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