Global warming killed 150,000

GLOBAL warming killed 150,000 people in 2000 and the death toll could double again in the next 30 years if current trends are not reversed, the World Health Organisation has warned.

Global warming killed 150,000

A heat wave killed 20,000 people in Europe alone this year, the WHO said, launching a book on health-weather links at a UN environment conference.

Climate change, linked by scientists to human emissions of gases such as carbon dioxide from cars and factories, is causing more frequent floods and droughts and melting ice caps.

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