Increased minimum mortality temperature in France: Data suggest humans are adapting to climate change

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 123, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Barrett, Julia R ^a  

^a National Association of Science   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FRANCE; HEAT EXHAUSTION; HEAT STROKE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; HEAT; HUMAN;

CLIMATE CHANGE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MORTALITY;

EID: 84936075002     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.123-A184     Document Type: Article

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