The effects of climate change are becoming more pronounced. There are more and more intense heat waves, more tropical storms, more hurricanes, etc. In order to quantify the damages expected in the future with the increase in these extreme meteorological phenomena a study has been carried out and has been published in the journal "The Lancet Planetary Health".
According to the study, climate disasters of this degree they can cause 152.000 deaths a year across Europe between 2071 and 2100. This means that two out of every three people residing in Europe at the end of this century could be affected by extreme climatic events and with the probability of death.
Increase in extreme events
This study focuses on analyzing the possible effects of climate change that may occur in the not too distant future. Among all the effects of climate change, the study focuses on the seven most dangerous disasters: heat waves, cold waves, forest fires, droughts, floods and blizzards.
Although awareness is not yet widespread around the world, climate change is one of the greatest threats to human health of the XNUMXst century. There are more and more risks that affect cities and all human economic activities. All these dangers are increasingly linked to disasters that depend on the weather.
Unless global warming is urgently reduced and appropriate action is taken, some 350 million Europeans could be exposed to extreme weather events each year by the end of the century.
As part of their research, Forzieri's group analyzed the records of 2.300 climatic disasters that occurred in Europe between 1981 and 2010, in order to determine the vulnerability of populations.
As we have analyzed in other articles, Even if the objectives of the Paris Agreement were met, we could stop global warming above 2 ° C. The study claims that heat waves will be the deadliest phenomenon that could cause almost the majority of all deaths.
As you can see, climate change is becoming more and more accentuated and the forecasts that are expected are not encouraging at all.