2019

Author(s): Lee JY, Kim H, Gasparrini A, Armstrong B, Bell ML, Sera F, Lavigne E, Abrutzky R, Tong S, Coelho M, Saldiva PHN, Correa PM, Ortega NV, Kan H, Garcia SO, Kysely J, Urban A, Orru H, Indermitte E, Jaakkola JJK, Ryti NRI, Pascal M, Goodman PG, Zeka A, Michelo

An increase in the global health burden of temperature was projected for 459 locations in 28 countries worldwide under four representative concentration pathway scenarios until 2099. We determined that the amount of temperature increase for each 100ppm increase in global CO2 concentrations is nearly constant, regardless of climate scenarios. The overall average temperature increase during 2010-2099 is largest in Canada (1.16 degrees C/100ppm) and Finland (1.14 degrees C/100ppm), while it is smallest in Ireland (0.62 degrees C/100ppm) and Argentina (0.63 degrees C/100ppm). In addition, for each 1 degrees C temperature increase, the amount of excess mortality is increased largely in tropical countries such as Vietnam (10.34%p/ degrees C) and the Philippines (8.18%p/ degrees C), while it is decreased in Ireland (-0.92%p/ degrees C) and Australia (-0.32%p/ degrees C). To understand the regional variability in temperature increase and mortality, we performed a regression-based modeling. We observed that the projected temperature increase is highly correlated with daily temperature range at the location and vulnerability to temperature increase is affected by health expenditure, and proportions of obese and elderly population.

Journal: Environment International