More than a third of heat-related deaths are caused by climate change making extreme weather …

Governments around the world need to urgently plan for more extreme weather events to prevent people from dying of heat, a climate change expert has urged.Hundreds of people in the northwest US and Canadian province of British Columbia are believed to have died in the past week from heat as they deal with a “heat dome” that has pushed temperatures to 49.6C. Rupert Stuart-Smith, a PhD student at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute, told Sky News there is “clear evidence” climate change has a role to play with an increase in heat-related mortality. “Over a third of heat-related deaths are now caused by climate change, the hotter the heatwave the more deaths,” he said.”We are able to see this by looking at a heatwave and asking what it would have looked like without human-generated greenhouse gas emissions. “Heatwaves as intense as we’re seeing would have been far less intense, would have been cooler without climate change.” He said governments have a big role to play in adapting to and being prepared for more extreme weather events. “Some of the most deadly events are happening to places you historically did not need to prepare for serious heatwaves.”The Pacific Northwest – historically…
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