Extreme weather from climate change triggered hunger in nearly 100 million people and increased heat deaths by 68 percent in vulnerable populations worldwide as the world's 'fossil fuel addiction' degrades public health each year, doctors reported in a new study.Worldwide the burning of coal, oil, natural gas and biomass forms air pollution that kills 1.
Computerized epidemiology models also show an increase in annual heat related deaths from 187,000 a year from 2000 to 2004 to an annual average of 312,000 a year the last five years, Romanello said.When there's a heat wave, like the record-shattering 2020 one in the Pacific Northwest or this summer's English heat wave, emergency room doctors know when they go to the hospital 'we're in for a challenging shift,' said study co-author Dr.