What to know

• A new U.S. modeling study finds climate change poses significantly greater health risks to older people than previously understood.
• Each degree of warming could add a month of intolerable heat exposure for approximately 1 billion people.
• The research indicates heat-related health threats to vulnerable populations have been dramatically underestimated in prior assessments.

“The threat that rising temperatures fueled by climate change pose to the health of older people has been dramatically underestimated”

U.S. modeling study (published Tuesday) · Phys.org

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