152,000 People Will Die Every Year In Europe After 2100 Due To Climate Change

By the end of this century, the death toll from weather disaster in Europe is expected to grow by 50 folds with extreme heat alone expected to kill over 150,000 people a year by 2100, if the step isn't being taken to counter the climate change.

In a study in The Lancet Planetary Health journal, the scientists said their findings showed climate change placing a rapidly increasing burden on society, with two in three people in Europe likely to be affected if greenhouse gas emissions and extreme weather events are not controlled.

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The predictions were made on the assumption of no reduction in greenhouse gas emission and no improvement in policies to reduce to impact of extreme climate change events. The number is likely to increase massively as against 3000 a year between 1981 and 2010 to 152,000 a year between 2071 to 2100.

"Climate change is one of the biggest global threats to human health of the 21st century, and its peril to society will be increasingly connected to weather-driven hazards," Giovanni Forzieri of the European Commission Joint Research Centre in Italy, who co-led the study told Reuters

He said that "unless global warming is curbed as a matter of urgency", some 350 million Europeans could be exposed to harmful climate extremes on an annual basis by the end of the century.

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The study took into consideration that seven most harmful types of weather related disasters-heat waves, cold waves, wildfires and droughts, river, coastal floods and windstorms- in 28 countries in European Union plus Switzerland, Norway and Iceland.

The study analysed the effects of the seven most harmful types of weather-related disaster ¨C heat waves, cold waves, wildfires, droughts, river and coastal floods and windstorms ¨C in the 28 countries of the European Union, plus Switzerland, Norway and Iceland.