New Study: Heatwave-Related Deaths Have Been Declining In Recent Decades

[rangerrebew]

New Study: Heatwave-Related Deaths Have Been Declining In Recent Decades
By Kenneth Richard on 4. August 2025

Human ingenuity outpaces modern warming.
A comprehensive new data analysis (Walkowiak et al., 2025) involving European countries finds it takes less than 18 years for humans to adapt to a 1°C increase in mean annual temperature. Consequently, exposure to excessive heat has become less and less deadly.

Supporting this conclusion, a 2018 study involving 305 locations across 10 countries (1985-2012) affirmed “a decrease in heat-mortality impacts over the past decades,” as “heat-related mortality [fractions, AFs] decreased in all countries.”

 
Many heatwave or excess heat mortality studies fail to account for the human capacity to adapt to extremely hot temperatures via the expansion of access to air conditioning, heat-shielding structures and building materials, etc.

https://notrickszone.com/2025/08/04/new-study-heatwave-related-deaths-have-been-declining-in-recent-decades/

[rustynail]

A warning sign of the coming Catastrophic Climate Cooling?

[Free Vulcan]

One because AC is more prevalent in first world countries, and people are not as outside oriented as they used to be, both in labor and recreation.

Two we have not had sweltering 100+ degree summers like in the past for much of the country, such as the '30's. We here in the Florida of Iowa have only had about 10 days in the 90's this year, and nothing above 95.

Better clothes, better awareness, easier access to portable water, ice, coolers...the list goes on.