The study, led by Carina Gronlund, a researcher at the Survey Research Center, part of the U-M Institute for Social Research, was published in the journal Environmental Health.¶¶¶”It’s important to point out that there’s a lot of uncertainty in these estimates-we cannot say there will be exactly 240 deaths,” said Gronlund, who completed the work as a researcher at the U-M School of Public Health. “But this is important as a thought experiment that shows if we don’t take steps to adapt to or mitigate climate change, we should expect to see increases in extreme heat and associated mortality that are in this order of magnitude.”