#Heat #inequality ‘causing thousands of unreported #deaths in #poor countries’
“Heatwaves are the deadliest type of extreme #weather but they don’t leave a trail of destruction or striking images of devastation. They kill poor, lonely people in rich countries, and poor people working outdoors in developing countries,” said Otto, who is also a senior lecturer in #climate science at the Grantham Institute of Imperial College #London. “In the last 13 months, there will be thousands and thousands of stories of poor people dying in heat that will never be told.”
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Heat inequality ‘causing thousands of unreported deaths in poor countries’
Friederike Otto, of World Weather Attribution, says poor people and outdoor workers are dying around the worldJonathan Watts (The Guardian)
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in reply to anonymiss • • •Even at that point it will be too late, as temperatures will continue to rise for some time due to a lag effect and the existence of feed-back mechanisms. We are probably already cooked.
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