Collecting accurate data to inform government policy on reducing exposure to extreme heat is more urgent than ever as climate change pushes global temperatures and heat death tolls higher
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Some of Chan’s colleagues have experienced mild heat stroke or elevated blood pressure while working in temperatures that have exceeded 45 degrees Celsius. Collecting accurate data to inform government policy on reducing exposure to extreme heat is more urgent than ever asLast year was the hottest on record, and July 21, 2024, was the hottest day ever recorded as heatwaves scorched large swaths of the United States, Europe and Russia.
“Gathering data typically involves identifying indirect causes and correlating this with temperature on very hot days and seeing excess deaths on a typical day,” said Alahmad, a research fellow at the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. It is projected that more than 1.5 million Indians will die each year from extreme heat by 2100, according to 2019 research by the Climate Impact Lab.
The National Centre for Disease Control at India’s health ministry, which records heat-related deaths, did not respond to repeated requests for comment. They linked the spike to a deadly heatwave, and resulting power cuts, that hit Mali and other countries in the African Sahel, including Senegal, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria and Chad.
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