2,3. Europe has seen a particularly strong increase in heat extremes since the deadly summer 2003 heatwave4,5, which is estimated to have caused ~70,000 excess deaths6. This tendency is illustrated by the recent cluster of consecutive exceptionally...
To data, a global burden of PTB attributable to heatwaves remains unknown17,18. In this study, we find that heatwave-related PTBs in China are substantial (13,262 cases averagely per year), even comparable to the number of heatwave-related deaths during the same period. According to the ...
For example, a study using the definition of heatwave with daily maximum temperature reported that the city of Chicago could experience between 166 and 2217 excess deaths per year during 2081–2100 without considering adaptation scenarios and population change (Peng et al., 2011). Another study in...
From a public health perspective, it is important to reflect on the fact that the heatwave occurred after 18 months of a global pandemic. Social isolation is a known risk factor for heat-related deaths55,56, and there is ample evidence that social isolation increased drastically during the pand...
The summer of 2003 was probably the hottest in Europe since at latest ad 15001,2,3,4, and unusually large numbers of heat-related deaths were reported in France, Germany and Italy5. It is an ill-posed question whether the 2003 heatwave was caused, in a s
Heat conditions in North America in summer 2021 exceeded previous heatwaves by margins many would have considered impossible under current climate conditions. Associated severe impacts highlight the need for understanding the physical drivers of the heat
during the summer of 2013. We show that the resulting heatstroke index captures much of the variation in heat stroke cases and deaths. The correlation between heat stroke deaths, the search index and the incidence of heat stroke is higher than the correlation with maximum temperature. This study...
The recent WHO report and the 2016 US Global Change Research Program on Human Health emphasized the importance of this issue3,4. The major heat wave in Europe in the summer of 2003 caused 15,000 deaths in France alone5,6,7,8,9 and has prompted several investigations of the relationship ...
An unprecedented heatwave developed in western NA from late June through mid-July 2021, causing millions overheated with more than 1400 deaths, failures of power grids, and widespread wildfires24,49,50,51,52. The responsible weather system was a strong high-pressure ridge known as heat dome, un...
In 2020, the overall gross domestic product (GDP) amounted to CNY 14,72 trillion, or approximately 17.4% of the global total [45]. However, heatwaves caused around 1% of China’s GDP losses, and heatwave-related deaths have quadrupled in China since 1990 [46]. By 2019, the number of ...