Warmer weather in winter increases the risk of death

On February 23, in a report published in the journal Nature Climate Change, British scientists confirmed that global warming would not reduce the rate of deaths in the winter as some predicted, because The weather will have more extreme forms even less cold.

According to the report, climate warming is not the cause of a reduction in the proportion of deaths in England and Wales. In contrast, the winter weather changed dramatically from cold to moderate, related to greenhouse gas emissions and could increase the death rate.

Philip Staddon of the University of Exeter of the UK, who led the study, said that the findings may be true for other developed countries in temperate climates, at risk of facing temporal patterns. Extreme weather due to rising temperatures.

According to Staddon, the high death rate in the winter in England and Wales compared to other seasons in the period 2012-2013 has dropped by half, to 31,000 compared to 60,000 of the 1950s, due to the The house is better insulated, better heating system, better health care and other non-weather elements.

Heat waves in summer are often considered to be a greater risk of death for humans than cold weather in winter.

In 2003, the worst heat wave in centuries in Europe killed 70,000 people, including 3,000 in the UK.

However, Staddon also stressed that the number of deaths due to heat waves will increase, but the rate of deaths in the winter will continue to rise.