Projecting heat-related excess mortality under climate change scenarios in China

Global warming is expected to increase mortality due to heat stress in many regions. Here, the authors asses how mortality due to high temperatures changes in China changes for different demographic groups and show that heat-related excess mortality is increasing under climate change, a process that...

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Main Authors: Jun Yang, Maigeng Zhou, Zhoupeng Ren, Mengmeng Li, Boguang Wang, De Li Liu, Chun-Quan Ou, Peng Yin, Jimin Sun, Shilu Tong, Hao Wang, Chunlin Zhang, Jinfeng Wang, Yuming Guo, Qiyong Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21305-1