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The elderly are more at risk from the threat of rising heat

The threat that rising temperatures fuelled by climate change pose to the health of older people has been dramatically underestimated, according to a United States modelling study published recently.

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老年人更容易受到气温上升的威胁。

An elderly person sits in front of a fan in Pont-Audemer, northwestern France. Global warming will expose the elderly to a rise in temperatures even more dangerous than anticipated over the coming decades, according to a new study.

The threat that rising temperatures fuelled by climate change pose to the health of older people has been dramatically underestimated, according to a United States modelling study published recently.

The research was released during a blistering northern hemisphere summer when extreme heat broke numerous records and contributed to the deaths of tens of thousands of people.

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