Hitting Paris climate goals would save 759 lives in L.A. during huge heat wave, study finds

For decades, climate scientists have been designing models to predict global warming’s long-term ecological effects: sea level rise, coral bleaching, extinctions of entire species.

Researchers have now taken a step that hits closer to home, characterizing for the first time how various climate scenarios outlined in the Paris agreementcould affect heat-related deaths in humans.

Learn more at the LA Times.