Risk of death rises as climate change causes night time temperatures to climb
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As night-time temperature climbs owing to climate change, so does your risk of death -- nearly six-fold in the future -- due to excessive heat that disrupts normal sleeping patterns, a new global study has warned.
Excessively hot nights caused by climate change are predicted to increase the mortality rate around the world by up to 60 per cent by the end of the century, according to researchers from China, South Korea, Japan, Germany and the US.
Ref - Cheng He, Ho Kim et al , The effects of night-time warming on mortality burden under future climate change scenarios: a modelling study, The lancet planetary health ,aug 2022, Doi -https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00139-5
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