El Nino Death Toll Warning
BENGALURU, India (AP) — This year’s powerful El Nino and the record global heat it’s driving, along with severe droughts, wildfires and shrinking water supplies, could lead to nearly half a million more deaths worldwide by the end of February, according to a research report released Wednesday.Reported by 5 of 5 outlets; wording from Toronto Star.
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The study’s authors came to their projections after researching the relationship between temperature and excess mortality in 24,378 regions, taking local climate and vulnerability into account.
The researchers described this year’s El Nino as a “postcard from the future”, ushering in temperatures that will become the new normal in just a few decades.
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The study by Greenstone and his colleagues also warns that the Global South — a term that isn’t geographical but a reference to developing countries in general — will bear the heaviest burden of the excessive heat.
The country likely to suffer the most excess heat-related deaths is Nigeria with 31,400, followed by Indonesia with 19,300 and Sudan with 17,600.
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- 23 Sep
The study combined seasonal temperature forecasts with localized estimates of how high temperatures affect mortality across more than 24,000 regions worldwide.
- 25 Sep
The El Niño is also a “postcard from our future,” the researchers said, pushing up temperatures to the level the climate crisis is projected to deliver in 20 years.
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25 Sep El Niño’s Estimated Death Toll From Extreme Heat Alone: 451,000 by February
Mother Jones- 23 Sep El Niño-driven heat could cause half a million extra deaths, report says. Here's where
CBC 
23 Sep Scientists warn super El Nino could cause 450,000 deaths: Should we worry?
Al Jazeera
23 Sep Powerful El Nino could cause more than 450,000 deaths, scientists say
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