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Excessively high or low temperatures presently cause 407,000 fatalities a year. Heat-related deaths, now six times more frequent in southern than in northern Europe, will occur 9.3 times more frequently in the south than in the north by 2100.
You can read more about the findings from the first pan-European assessment of temperature-related mortality burden here.
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