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Why Hurricanes Are Much—Much—Deadlier Than Official Death Counts Suggest
Excess deaths following hurricanes are 300% higher than direct death counts, and the aftereffects play out for years. An environmental economist explains why.
Interview by Paloma Beltran, Living on Earth
From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Paloma Beltran with Rachel Young, an environmental economist and postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley.
Related Knowledge Center: Climate science
State of Play
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.