Europe will see millions of people die from extreme heat
Climate change and the death of millions of people in the Mediterranean: a study of masselot’s contribution to climate change in France, Italy and Malta
The results, published in Nature Medicine1, suggest that heat-related deaths will surpass those caused by cold conditions in even the most optimistic scenarios, and that temperature-related deaths overall could increase by nearly 50%. The Mediterranean region is expected to be the worst affected, particularly eastern Spain, southern France, Italy and Malta.
“We would need a massive adaptation in order to compensate for the increase in temperature,” says study co-author Pierre Masselot, a statistician and environmental epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He says it is hard to see how that level of adaptation could be reached.
Extreme heat will kill millions of people in Europe without rapid action on climate change. Plus, the tireless polymath who “couldn’t stop dreaming up ways to make the world better”.
A climate activist group in Switzerland is suing against the Swiss government for taking action on climate change. The case of a cave carved by giant ground sloths
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Source: Daily briefing: The infinite optimism of polymath Gottfried Leibniz
Gottfried Leibniz, Voltaire’s Candide, and Ivan Di Terlizzi: How to make the world better with cornstarch
Gottfried Leibniz was a tireless polymath who covered ground in everything from philosophy to geology — as well as inventing versions of calculus and binary arithmetic. He also got the mickey ruthlessly taken out of his ‘best of all possible worlds’ religious philosophy in “the best of all possible parodies” — Voltaire’s Candide. In a rollicking overview of Leibniz’s life of relentless intellectual exploration, historian of thought Anthony Gottlieb says that the bewigged boffin “couldn’t stop dreaming up ways to make the world better”.
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