A new alarming study predicted how many people in Europe will die from climate change to the end of the century. Scientists of the London school of hygiene and tropical medicine predict that a total of 5.8 million Europeans will die from excessive heat between 2015 and 2099.

Researchers called 10 cities in Europe, where mortality will be the highest. However, experts note that their analysis does not include the consequences of catastrophic weather phenomena caused by climate change, such as forest fires and tropical storms, so the final number of deaths will be even higher, Dailymail writes.

For a new study, Dr. Pierre Masselo and his colleagues analyzed the data on temperature and mortality in order to provide for the upcoming deaths associated with temperature in 854 European cities between 2015 and 2099.

For each city, the researchers calculated a “pure” figure - the number of deaths caused by heat, the minus of deaths “saved” from the cold. After all, a team of scientists admits that fever will reduce the mortality of people from the cold.

According to the unflattering scenario, when high greenhouses of greenhouse gases are observed (where CO2 emissions are doubled by 2100) and there is no adaptation to the heat, in Europe there will be a total of 5,825,746 deaths due to the heat, scientists counted.

However, 3,480 336 deaths due to the cold will be able to avoid what the total "

Researchers say that the most vulnerable territories of Europe to the heat are the southern regions, namely Mediterranean and Balkans.

The European city with the largest number of deaths from temperature to the end of the century will be the Spanish Barcelona - 246,082 people. The following are the Italian Rome (147 738) and Naples (147 248), followed by the Spanish Madrid (129 716) and again the Italian Milan (110 131).

Cloth the alarming ten Athens (Greece) - 87 523, Valencia (Spain) - 67 519, Marseille (France) - 51 306, Bucharest (Romania) - 47,468 and Genoa (Italy) - 36,338 people.

But in most cities in the British Islands and in the Scandinavian countries, such as London, Copenhagen and Stockholm, there will be a "

For example, in London 75 864 people will die from the heat, but 103,320 will be saved from the cold -a total pure decrease by -27 455. "

In general, the study shows that even if we take into account the mortality from the cold, by 2099, 2.3 million Europeans will die due to the heat.

The study is focused on the average daily temperature and does not take into account weather elements. So the total number of deaths from climate change in Europe will probably be larger if you include events such as climatically caused floods and forest fires, experts say.

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