The predicted number, which includes deaths since June, likely represents an underestimate of total deaths. The heat could linger beyond February, and the climate swing could bring about other life-threatening conditions, including flooding, wildfire and infectious diseases
  • chunes@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    It’s not even that we don’t give a shit, it’s that temperature extremes kill people who would have died the next week from something else.