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"Heat Deaths in Manhattan To Rise"

"Residents of Manhattan will not just sweat harder from rising temperatures in the future, says a new study; many may die."



"Researchers at Columbia University estimate deaths linked to warming climate may rise some 20 percent by the 2020s, and, in some worst-case scenarios, 90 percent or more 70 years hence.

Higher winter temperatures may partially offset heat-related deaths by cutting cold-related mortality, but even so, scientists say annual net temperature-related deaths might go up a third.

The study, published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change, was done by a team at the school's Earth Institute and the Mailman School of Public Health."

The Daily Climate had the story May 20, 2013.

Source: Daily Climate, 05/21/2013