The world is at risk of a 75% increase in deaths from heat waves
An annual average global temperature rise of three degrees Celsius would raise the number of heat deaths by 75%, according to British climatologists.
Katie Huang, a researcher at University College London, says that "the largest part of this ratio (deaths) will be related to the rise in the annual rate of temperatures, and most deaths will occur in the summer. This makes it difficult to predict the changes that will occur in the coming centuries, if The average annual temperature has increased by one degree Celsius.
It is reported that one of the main consequences of global warming (anomalous weather phenomena), which according to scientists are the stages of abnormal rise in temperatures in winter, severe heat waves in summer, heavy rainfall for a week, drought and other abnormal climatic phenomena.
According to the predictions of experts, the frequency of these phenomena will increase in the future and will cover more and more areas of the Earth.
And this, according to doctors, will lead to a sharp increase in mortality and various chronic diseases of the lungs, heart and blood vessels.
Huang and her scientific team have studied how climatic indicators have changed in England and Wales over the past years, and compared this data with current forecasts of Earth's climate change over the coming centuries, and based on that, they made detailed predictions of what will happen in the next decades.
The scientific team's calculations indicate that every increase in the annual average temperature by one degree Celsius will lead to an increase in the number of deaths due to heat waves and other abnormal weather phenomena.
For example, an increase in temperature by two degrees Celsius will not change the values of these indicators, while if it increases by three degrees Celsius, it will lead to an increase in the number of deaths by 75%.
But if the annual average temperature rises by six degrees Celsius, the number of deaths related to heat waves will increase by at least 2.75-3 times.
But in this case they cannot accurately predict, because with such a sharp warming of the climate, ordinary hot summer days will begin to adversely affect human health.
According to Huang and her scientific team, these weather anomalies should be taken into account when evaluating the impact of global warming on people's health and well-being around the world, including temperate countries.
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