Monday, 17 September 2018

A lack of acclimatisation can be deadly during heatwaves

a column by Thomas Longden for VIX: CEPR’s Policy Portal

During the last 15 years, various regions around the world have been struck by some very strong heatwaves.

This column uses examples of heatwaves in Australia to argue that a lack of acclimatisation is a key factor that influences how deadly these extreme temperature events are, and identifies thresholds for hotter temperatures that capture the temperature-related mortality relationship for such events.

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