The extreme heat is harming people's health and labor productivity.
Newly available economic data and more advanced climate models now make it possible to measure how extreme heat hurts the global economy.
"The economic costs of extreme heat do not encompass the totality of the economic costs of climate change," Mankin said.
"Average temperatures are rising, so statistically, we are going to have more extreme heat in more places," he said.
"What's unique about the extreme heat right now is the number of people it's impacting.
Persons:
Justin Mankin, Mankin, Adrienne Arsht
Organizations:
Service, Dartmouth College, Rockefeller Foundation Resilience, CNN, European Union
Locations:
. Texas, Southern Europe, North Africa, Italy, Spain, Greece, Tunisia