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Summer Heat Waves Killed 61,000 in Europe Last Year, Study Says [1]

['Delger Erdenesanaa']

Date: 2023-07-10

More than 61,000 people died because of last year’s brutal summer heat waves across Europe, according to a study published on Monday in the journal Nature Medicine.

The findings suggest that two decades of efforts in Europe to adapt to a hotter world have failed to keep up with the pace of global warming.

“In an ideal society, nobody should die because of heat,” said Joan Ballester, a research professor at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health and the study’s lead author.

This summer is likely to be even worse: On top of climate change, the Earth has entered a natural El Niño weather pattern during summer for the first time in four years, bringing about conditions that will turn up the heat in many parts of the world. The season is already shattering various global temperature records.

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/10/climate/heat-waves-europe-deaths.html

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