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Climate attribution of heat mortality

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Mortality associated with rising temperatures is one of the clearest and impactful fingerprints of a changing climate. Research now shows an attributable increase in mortality due to climate change is already evident in cities on every continent.

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Fig. 1: Global map of missing mortality data and projected population hotspots.

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