He talks in detail about the unprecedented heat wave we've just experienced in March. Stunning really.
Climate Change is here - now. Many of us thought this was a fight to protect the environment for our children and our grandchildren - but it is now clear - we are fighting for our own lives.
The Boston Globe ran an article about a Harvard study that showed that summer heat waves due to climate change are killing an additional 10,000 people a year in the US. Link to the report here
They report states that elderly people have a 42% higher chance of dying from heat for each 1 degree C increase in temperature variability.
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