The climate community has invested decades in studying the potential adverse consequences of climate change, but as usual, it's the stuff we never saw coming that haunts us. Who ever gave consideration to the risk that heat waves would increase drowning fatalaties among drunks?
28 die in heatwave drunk-drownings
1145 GMT (1945 HKT), May 30, 2007
MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters) -- Twenty-eight people, many of them drunk, have drowned in the Russian capital this month as Muscovites cool off from a record heatwave in ponds, fountains and canals, rescue services said on Wednesday.
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