Climate change linked to over 16 000 deaths

Scientists estimated yesterday that rising temperatures from human-caused climate change were responsible for roughly 16 500 deaths in European cities this summer, using modelling to project the toll before official data is released.

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The rapidly produced study is the latest effort by climate and health researchers to quickly link the death toll during heatwaves to global warming.

The estimated deaths were not actually recorded in the European cities but, instead, were a projection based on methods such as modelling used in previously peer-reviewed studies.