New York is much bigger and clearly will have more deaths than cities like Washington and Detroit. The second thing is that [a place such as] New York is a very sensitive city with a lot of high-rises and buildings that are sensitive to extreme heat. |
That would literally double the number of excess deaths over the next hottest summer in the last 40 years in New York. |
We tried to take the Paris heat wave in 2003 and transpose it onto the climate of five different cities. |