Warmer Temperatures Linked To Increase In US Injury Deaths, Study Says

(CNN) — A temperature increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit — as predicted under the Paris Climate Agreement without a mitigation plan — would cause an additional 1,600 injury deaths every year in the United States, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine. The majority of those deaths, 84%, would impact men, the study said.
Using data from the National Center for Health Statistics, researchers studied death rates in the contiguou