"Heat kills. Over the past decades, hundreds of thousands of people have died as a result of extreme heat during extended heatwaves, often with simultaneous wildfires," WHO regional director for Europe Hans Kluge said in a statement.
Responding to a query by AFP, WHO Europe explained that the figure is a preliminary estimate based on reports by national authorities, and that the toll had"already increased and will increase further over the coming days". The regional head of the UN health body said governments need to demonstrate will and leadership in implementing the Paris Agreement, which set the goal of limiting end-of-century warming to two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels - and preferably not beyond 1.5C.
Other major cities under a cautionary heatwave red alert for today and tomorrow by Italy's health ministry include Florence, Genoa, Turin and Verona.For three consecutive months - May, June and July - national temperatures have been at least two to three degrees above the seasonal average, and the trend should continue until early August, said national weather website ilmeteo.com.
Italy's national firefighting corps say they have intervened in 32,921 wildfires from 15 June to 21 July, or 4,040 more than in the same period last year.According to the specialised European monitoring service Copernicus, fires have ravaged 27,571 hectares so far this year in Italy.
1700? BBC Reported 10s of 1000s would die in the 2 day heatwave in UK🌞
Quit ur Shi………….te rte Spews
The World Health Organisation is headed by a man called Tedros who is accused of aiding in Genocide. How could anyone take such an organisation seriously. They've done nothing but tell lies
Just because someone dies when the weather is hot doesn't mean that the hot weather caused them to die..
You mean the WHO that stated covid is 'not human to human transmissible' and pretended it came from a bat... they have no credibility left. All serious geneticists know it was lab made, due to the genetic sequences it contains.
Rhey already tossed a coin into a fountain! What more can they do?! /s
Seems the deaths were recorded in the same way the flu , sorry covid was
RTÉ are full of 💩. Even my elderly parents who are long time supporters have turned their backs on the RTÉ cesspool. It's only a matter of time before Karma catches up with Duffy, Tubridy and Byrne etc
Whoever green lit the secret geo engineering should face the gallows...
What nonsense..so now the who a made up body of pharmaceuticals and the rich are widening their purview from health into climate change .. next banking and food production ..
Well they did need an excuse for people dropping dead from the 💉… nice try. I didn’t think as many people are buying this one 🤔 RTE ye sold your souls to the devil.
Pure Bullshit
Sure, more than covid - RTE did it again
Neo liberals are already objecting and delaying the EU directive on corporate sustainability. When that is implemented, I will then think, that maybe there is hope.
Let me guess all extremely old with Co mobility’s 🤣🤣🤕🤕🤡🤡. Happens EVERY SINGLE YEAR !!
That organisation have no credibility any longer
Died “with” or “from” the heatwave?! Yeah we saw how you counted Covid deaths.
Any evidence for this assertion?
Nonsense
Until People actually rise up and neutralise all Oil and Gas output nothing will change. Oil/Gas/coal lobbiests have huge power, and our Politicians will not cross them.. They re actually physically scared of them
Well it looks like the only clear solution is to tag us all and monitor our carbon footprints and allow a centralised power to determine what you can spend your money on.
Do people still take this organisation seriously at this point?
'the heatwave baking Europe has caused over 1,700 deaths in Spain and Portugal alone' - you have to have tested positive for heat stroke within 28 days of dying to be classed as having died from climate!
Wouldn't believe their radio ffs
Here come the freaktweets…