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NNadir

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7. I don't have the reference handy, but a 2003 heatwave in France reportedly killed...

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Tue Jul 1, 2025, 08:41 AM

Jul 1

...tens of thousands of people. I'm sure if one looks, one can find similar reports all over the world in subsequent years.

This is not something that is in the future - and treating it as such is to say the least, unhelpful - it is something already being observed.

The Journal Nature Reviews Earth and Environment (Vol. 6, pp 193-210) offers an account of mortality in some events. Any epidemiological effort will, of course, be subject to inaccuracies but it is illustrative.

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