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A critical part of adapting to the higher temperatures that climate change brings will be the deployment of existing technologies to new sectors and regions. This paper examines the evolution of the temperature-mortality relationship over the course of the entire 20th century in the United...
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How will a nation's aggregate urban productivity be affected by climate change? The joint distribution of climate conditions and economic activity across a nation's cities will together determine industrial average exposure to climate risk. Air conditioning (AC) can greatly reduce this heat...
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Climate change will further increase not only the frequency but also the intensity of extreme weather events. As a result, weather conditions favouring pneumonia occurrence - suddenly warmer weather during cold seasons - can increase due to higher meteorological variability which is also linked...
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Lack of cooling and cold-chain access is a critical development challenge that has significant implications for people … cooling appliances will be sold every second by 2050, universal access to cooling is expected not to be a reality even at this … rate of growth, leaving poor and vulnerable populations to suffer the consequences. The global demand for cooling is …
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