Exposure Health impact estimated Baseline health impact Temperature Attributable mortality 1,100 deaths per year (across 10 extremes in > 65-year-old cities); temperate cities have (cold and age group higher rates of heat deaths than heat) tropical cities Rainfall Annual incidence of Average annual death rate in (inland) deaths and injuries Australia (1970-2001) was 0.

2) After the heat deaths Tuesday of two little boys who had been locked in a vehicle, Rotary Club member Larry Jernigan passes out fliers warning against leaving children unattended in cars.

weather agency announced that heat deaths are expected to double in the next twenty years as the result of global warming if nothing is done to slow or stop it.