Experts say deaths related to human-caused climate change will soar to 250,000 a year by 2050.

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Comments from researchers at a recent conference on health and climate change aligned with World Health Organization's predictions.According to WHO, 250,000 people will die each year as a result of climate change.

Death rates as a result of climate change could top a quarter of amillion a year by 2050, according to experts and the World Health Organization.

Saskia Heijnenof Wellcome Trust, a London-based biomedical research charity, told attendees of the Global Health conference at the RoyalCollegeof Physicians ofEdinburgh in Scotland that.

Heijnen also noted thatthe planet would have to produce 60 percent more food by 2050 to meet the needs of the world's population and that two-thirds of the world's population would live in cities by 2050.

Heijnen heads tasked with finding ways to "protect the health of the global population and planet."

Medical professionals convened for the conference to discuss how health and the environment are affected by climate change, increasedurbanization and food systems.

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Heijnen's comments align with .

At a Climate and Health conference in Atlanta last week, which replaced a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention climate meeting canceled in January under the Trump administration, experts noted that deaths linked to climate change are expected to soar to 250,000 between 2030 and 2050 because of heat stress related toglobal warming, malnutrition and the spread of infectious diseases like malaria.

"The extreme weather events calculated by the insurance industry have obviously been increasing," former U.S. Vice President Al Gore . "As I've said on other occasions, every night on the television news now is like a nature hike through the Book of Revelation."

According to WHO, the direct damage costs to health from human-caused climate change is estimated to be between $2 and $4billion per year by 2030. This excludes the costs in health-determining sectors such as agriculture and water and sanitation, WHO notes.