>the numbers listed in the article you provided are quite low, in the order of 100 per year (and falling). Those were deaths in the US, not globally or in the

>the numbers listed in the article you provided are quite low, in the order of 100 per year (and falling). Those were deaths in the US, not globally or in the Americas. The US has just about the highest percentage of households with ACs of any country in the world and so is, broadly speaking, less susceptible to deaths from severe heatwaves even should they occur. Globally, the figure is more like five million [1] between heat and cold. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/08/extreme-temperatures-kill-5-million-people-a-year-with-heat-related-deaths-rising-study-finds https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/08/extreme-temper...