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3,400 deaths in a day: India's extreme heat days are deadlier than we imagined

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3,400 deaths in a day: India's extreme heat days are deadlier than we imagined

www.indiatoday.in

Jim East@slrpnk.net to 🌱Climate Change🌡⛈@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 months ago

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Official counts of "heatstroke deaths" are often low, sometimes just a few hundred in a bad season, because many heat-related deaths are not labelled as such. This implies that the toll could be much higher.

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https://theconversation.com/too-hot-too-humid-why-the-sustained-heatwave-in-india-and-pakistan-is-so-dangerous-283762

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