NRDC Report Predicts 150,000 Heat-Related Deaths Due To Climate
Change  Thu, 2012-05-24 11:08Laurel Whitney Laurel Whitney's
picture  NRDC Report Predicts 150,000 Heat-Related Deaths Due To
Climate Change  Chances are, if you're already concerned about
being off'ed by climate change, it's probably because you
imagine being swept away by a super-charged hurricane, drowned
by rising sea levels, starved because of drought-induced crop
failure, or set aflame by roaring wildfires. But as it turns
out, your risk of perishing by the titans of extreme weather may
be a ways off - because the heat may get to you first.  If you
didn't already know, heat is actually the number one killer
amongst its weather-related brethren, causing more fatalities
than floods, lightning, tornadoes, and hurricanes combined,
according to NOAA.  A new report released this week by the NRDC,
"Killer Summer Heat: Projected Death Toll from Rising
Temperatures in America Due to Climate Change" [PDF], estimates
that 150,000 people could die beca