{"id":81199,"date":"2018-08-01T07:42:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T14:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/heatwave-deaths-will-rise-steadily-by-2080-as-globe-warms-up"},"modified":"2018-08-04T10:01:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T17:01:18","slug":"heatwave-deaths-will-rise-steadily-by-2080-as-globe-warms-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/heatwave-deaths-will-rise-steadily-by-2080-as-globe-warms-up","title":{"rendered":"Heatwave deaths will rise steadily by 2080 as globe warms up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/heatwave-deaths-will-rise-steadily-by-2080-as-globe-warms-up.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If people cannot adapt to future climate temperatures, deaths caused by severe heatwaves will increase dramatically in tropical and subtropical regions, followed closely by Australia, Europe and the United States, a global new Monash-led study shows.<\/p>\n<p>Published today in <i>PLOS Medicine<\/i>, it is the first global study to predict future heatwave-related deaths and aims to help decision makers in planning adaptation and mitigation strategies for climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers developed a model to estimate the number of deaths related to heatwaves in 412 communities across 20 countries for the period of 2031 to 2080.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2018-07-heatwave-deaths-steadily-globe.html\">https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2018&#45;07-heatwave-deaths-steadily-globe.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If people cannot adapt to future climate temperatures, deaths caused by severe heatwaves will increase dramatically in tropical and subtropical regions, followed closely by Australia, Europe and the United States, a global new Monash-led study shows. Published today in PLOS Medicine, it is the first global study to predict future heatwave-related deaths and aims to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81353,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81199\/revisions\/81353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}