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The Cost of Killer Heat: A Rising Risk of Death in Poor Nations

Economists studying the cost of greenhouse gas emissions conclude in a new study that it will be significant for heat-related deaths alone. 

Residents in Lahore, Pakistan, cool off in a river canal as temperatures reach 40 degrees celsius on May 27, 2020.

Residents in Lahore, Pakistan, cool off in a river canal as temperatures reach 40 degrees celsius on May 27, 2020.

Photographer: Arif Ali/AFP

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A few years ago, several top climate researchers joined forces to launch a data-intensive economics research project that promised the most careful estimates yet of how much damage warming may bring and what it implies for the cost of climate change.