Warmer summers brought on by climate change will cause more deaths in London and southeast England than the rest of the UK. According to a [s]News-Medical[/s] report, researchers at [b]Imperial College London[/b] looked at temperature records and mortality figures for 2001 to 2010 to find out which districts in England and Walesexperience the biggest effects from warm temperatures. In the most vulnerable districts, in London and the southeast, the odds of dying from cardiovascular or respiratory causes increased by over 10% for every 1ºC rise in temperature. Districts in the far north were much more resilient, seeing no increase in deaths at equivalent temperatures. Writing in [s]Nature Climate Change[/s], the researchers say local variations in climate change vulnerability should be taken into account when assessing the risks and choosing policy responses.
[i]The [b]World Health Organisation[/b] has, meanwhile, released a document designed to provide basic and flexible guidance[/i] on conducting an assessment of current and future vulnerability to the health risks of climate change, and of policies and programmes that could increase resilience.
[link url=http://www.news-medical.net/news/20140324/Climate-change-could-increase-death-rates-in-London-and-southeast-England-scientists-predict.aspx]Full News-Medical report[/link]
[link url=http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate2123.html]Research[/link]
[link url=http://www.who.int/globalchange/publications/Final_Climate_Change.pdf]WHO report[/link]