[MCN] Health risk x 2: What happens when extreme heat collides with a pandemic?

[Lance Olsen]

What happens when extreme heat collides with a pandemic? <https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/27/21197467/extreme-heat-waves-covid-19-pandemic-coronavirus&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMzMzNTcwODMyNTU5NDk2NDIwMzIaYWJkMGVmMWVmZTRkNWE4NTpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHBa4_s533hyuoD9lDPNI48CdPcpw>
The Verge
The COVID-19 pandemic is on the verge of colliding with another public health threat: extreme heat, which kills more people in the US each year than .

Risk of heart-related death may triple in extreme heat environments <https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://newatlas.com/environment/heart-death-extreme-heat-environment/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTMzMzNTcwODMyNTU5NDk2NDIwMzIaYWJkMGVmMWVmZTRkNWE4NTpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNGZhNRJleqcVAa_h3zT7AjQCymxMg>
New Atlas
A new study has sought to examine the effect that extreme heat has on cardiovascular mortality rates. The researchers behind the new study drew ...
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Financial Times - March 28, 2018
Special Report <https://www.ft.com/reports>

How to make a carbon pricing system work
Compensation for those who lose out and sanctions on non-compliance are needed
MARTIN WOLF <https://www.ft.com/martin-wolf>

<<https://www.ft.com/content/2d9490f2-1291-11e8-a765-993b2440bd73 <https://www.ft.com/content/2d9490f2-1291-11e8-a765-993b2440bd73>>>

1st 2 sentences

“Carbon pricing is a good idea whose time has not yet come. But it has to do so.”

Closing paragraph

“Until now, therefore, carbon pricing remains a sleeping giant. Yet needed progress will not be achieved if it does not awake. The difficulties in meeting agreed objectives in our fractured world are enormous. The chances are high that the effort will fail. If so, our goose will be cooked.”



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