East Asian air cleanup likely contributed to acceleration in global warming

Re:East Asian air cleanup likely contributed to acceleration... by defrost on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @04:43AM (#44569209)

That's a useful baseline for future comparisons.

Currently (mostly) cities don't see Death Valley or Marble Bar range tempretures or beyond .. this will change.

  Government statistics show there were more than 10,000 heat-related deaths in the UK alone between 2020 and 2024. Close to 3,000 people died amidst the record-breaking 2022 heatwaves, when UK temperatures exceeded 40C for the first time. Despite this, the UK remains unprepared for extreme heat.

~ https://www.climatechangenews.com/2025/07/14/to-help-people-...

Extreme heat could lead to 30,000 deaths a year in England and Wales by 2070s, say scientists

~ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/10/extreme-...

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Re:East Asian air cleanup likely contributed to acceleration... by chopin on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @05:22AM (#44569406)

That would be roughly on par with Germany's deaths related to infections contracted in a hospital. That doesn't make it into headlines.

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Re:East Asian air cleanup likely contributed to acceleration... by defrost on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @05:35AM (#44569476)

That's just the UK (high latitude), at tempretures lower than current tempretures in Death Valley / Marble Bar.

Give it time for higher tempretures to reach dense urban centres, look to India and equatorial countries that'll experience both high temp and high humidity and you'll see heat exhaustion deaths rise to well past those anglocentric numbers.

The more serious numbers will come from climate related conflict and migration in any case (assuming no change in increasing emmissions, even assuming a flattening to a steady human annual addition).

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