Okay so this piece contains a map of fatalities from: drought, wildfire, storm, landslide and flood.
What happened to "heat"?
Last year #heatwaves killed nearly 62,000 in #Europe.
Erasing heat deaths in #Africa is - shall we be charitable - irresponsible at best.
"Global #HeatDeaths are projected to increase by 370% if action is not taken to limit the effects of #GlobalWarming, according to a study published Tuesday in The Lancet, a medical journal.
It found that human-caused #ClimateChange is making health-threatening temperatures more frequent, especially in the #US."
"The dangers of #ExtremeHeat have become a matter of grave concern in #Europe since devastating heat waves in 2003 killed more than 71,000 people. Another heat wave that hit Moscow and western #Russia in the summer of 2010 led to more than 55,000 #HeatDeaths."
"Many vulnerable people in South Asia are already struggling to protect themselves from unbearably high temperatures – which are set to worsen
The humid tropics are all careening towards the 35°C threshold. The city of Jacobabad [#Pakistan] has already breached 35°C #WetBulb temperatures many times. More areas of the country are likely to be exposed to such life-threatening conditions more often due to #ClimateChange. "
"The death certificates of more than 2,300 people who died in the United States last summer mention the effects of excessive heat, the highest number in 45 years of records. With May already breaking heat records, 2024 could be even deadlier."
But
"According to an "excess death" study by Texas A&M’s Dessler and his colleague Jangho Lee, about 11,000 heat deaths likely occurred in 2023 in the U.S."
If you don't count it, you can't work to prevent it. But #HeatDeaths are notoriously hard to count.
"#Heat is not commonly mentioned on #DeathCertificates because heat alone is rarely the main thing that kills people.
[In Maricopa County] they coined the term "environmental heat exposure" to encapsulate heat related factors that contributed to someone's death without necessarily being the primary driver."