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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 May 31.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Int. 2017 Aug 8;108:41–50. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2017.08.001

Table 1.

Short term excess mortality under the ICLUS A2 population scenario. Projected excess deaths using ICLUS A2 population scenarios attributable to climate change only, anthropogenic emissions only, and combined effects of both climate change and emissions for 2050s from baseline 2000s by US climatic region. (SE: standard error).

Climate change only
Emissions control only
Combined effect
Region RCP4.5 RCP8.5 RCP4.5 RCP8.5 RCP4.5 RCP8.5
National 72 47 −41 2167 50 2217
(SE = 456) (SE = 525) (SE = 1037) (SE = 1386) (SE = 615) (SE = 900)

Northeast 204 330 − 2 365 208 678
(SE = 12) (SE = 17) (SE = 28) (SE = 43) (SE = 40) (SE = 59)
Southeast −47 −100 −186 405 −237 298
(SE = 10) (SE = 17) (SE = 14) (SE = 35) (SE = 5) (SE = 19)
East North Central −18 −35 22 161 4 126
(SE = 1) (SE = 1) (SE = 1) (SE = 3) (SE = 1) (SE = 3)
Central 76 87 −42 161 30 239
(SE = 4) (SE = 4) (SE = 7) (SE = 12) (SE = 11) (SE = 15)
West North Central 5 5 −20 9 −15 13
(SE = 1) (SE = 1) (SE = 1) (SE = 1) (SE = 1) (SE = 1)
South −11 −13 −80 169 −91 152
(SE = 3) (SE = 3) (SE = 3) (SE = 6) (SE = 4) (SE = 6)
Southwest 20 18 −71 98 −52 114
(SE = 7) (SE = 7) (SE = 7) (SE = 15) (SE = 3) (SE = 13)
Northwest −12 −5 46 122 34 112
(SE = 2) (SE = 2) (SE = 6) (SE = 8) (SE = 5) (SE = 9)
West −143 −170 292 678 165 475
(SE = 154) (SE = 182) (SE = 355) (SE = 468) (SE = 199) (SE = 287)