Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

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

  • 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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21305-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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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 is strongly amplified by population ageing.