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This is interesting.
The first undeniable climate change deaths: Japan’s 2018 heat wave.
I imagine there will be many, many more in the near future.
The first undeniable climate change deaths: Japan’s 2018 heat wave.
In 2018 in Japan, more than 1,000 people died during an unprecedented heat wave. In 2019, scientists proved it would have been impossible without global warming.
July 23, the heat wave reached its zenith. The large Tokyo suburb of Kumagaya was the epicenter, and around 3 p.m., the Kumagaya Meteorological Observatory measured a temperature of 41.1 degrees Celsius, or 106 F. It was the hottest temperature ever recorded in Japan, but the record was more than a statistic. It was a tragedy: Over the course of those few weeks, more than a thousand people died from heat-related illnesses.
“We would never have experienced such an event without global warming,” says Yukiko Imada of the Japan Meteorological Agency.
I imagine there will be many, many more in the near future.