{"id":117789,"date":"2021-07-10T20:23:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T14:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=117789"},"modified":"2021-07-12T19:19:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T13:49:53","slug":"over-7-lakh-yearly-deaths-in-india-linked-to-abnormal-temperatures-lancet-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/over-7-lakh-yearly-deaths-in-india-linked-to-abnormal-temperatures-lancet-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 7 lakh yearly deaths in India linked to abnormal temperatures: Lancet study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/over-7-lakh-yearly-deaths-in-india-linked-to-abnormal-temperatures-lancet-study\/article35210559.ece\">The Hindu<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the news?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>An international team, led by researchers at Monash University in Australia, found that globally more than five million extra deaths a year can be attributed to non-optimal temperatures.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The team looked at mortality and temperature data across the world from 2000 to 2019, a period when global temperatures rose by <strong>0.26 degrees Celsius per decade, <\/strong>making it the hottest period since the Pre-Industrial era.<\/li>\n<li>It is the first study to definitively link non-optimal temperatures to annual increases in mortality.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Key findings of the study<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Deaths related to hot temperatures increased<\/strong> in all regions from 2000 to 2019 and global warming, due to climate change, will make this mortality figure worse in the future.<\/li>\n<li>Global warming may \u201cslightly <strong>reduce the number of temperature-related deaths,<\/strong> largely because of the lessening in cold-related mortality. However in the long-term climate change is expected to increase the mortality burden because heat-related mortality would be continuing to increase<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Significance<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Understanding the geographic patterns of temperature-related mortality is important for the international collaboration in developing policies and strategies in climate change mitigation and adaptation and health protection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Hindu What is the news? An international team, led by researchers at Monash University in Australia, found that globally more than five million extra deaths a year can be attributed to non-optimal temperatures. The team looked at mortality and temperature data across the world from 2000 to 2019, a period when global temperatures&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/over-7-lakh-yearly-deaths-in-india-linked-to-abnormal-temperatures-lancet-study\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Over 7 lakh yearly deaths in India linked to abnormal temperatures: Lancet study<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,1305,9],"tags":[408,409],"class_list":["post-117789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-index-reports-bodies","category-public","tag-climate-change","tag-global-warming","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700805770,"cached_date":1704900666},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}