The Chronicle

Even if the world does get a bit warmer, will that really be so bad?

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Dr FINKEL SAYS: The United States Environmen­tal Protection Agency reports heat is the leading weatherrel­ated killer in the US and that the risk of heat-related deaths from heatwaves is expected to increase. It is not sufficient to look only at the average rise, which globally is already 1.2C above the pre-industrial baseline (1850 to 1900) and in Australia is more than 1.4C since national records began in 1910. The bigger problem is the risk of heat-related deaths will be exacerbate­d by ever greater temperatur­e extremes. In Australia, in 2019 there were over 40 extremely warm days, more than triple the number in any of the years prior to 2000.

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