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Climate change increasing dangerous heat MAXENCE D'AVERSA, SABRINA BLANCHARD
*when temperatures exceed a conservative threshold over which heat-related deaths
are likely to increase
86
Level expected without climate change
0
20
40
80
60
2022
1997
Source: Lancet report on health and climate change
Climate change increasing dangerous heat
Days of exposure to potentially fatal temperatures* for people at risk
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What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.