The Next Big Climate Scare: Counting Climate Change Deaths
By Steve Goreham
Originally published in Washington Examiner.
The next big climate scare is on the way. Advocates of measures to control the climate now propose that we begin counting deaths from climate change. They appear to believe that if people see a daily announcement of climate deaths, they will be more inclined to accept climate change policies. But it’s not even clear that the current gentle rise in global temperatures is causing more people to die.
In December, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke at COP28, the 28th United Nations Climate Conference, and mentioned climate-related deaths.
“We are seeing and beginning to pay attention and to count and record the deaths that are related to climate,” she said. “And by far the biggest killer is extreme heat.”
According to Ms. Clinton, Europe recorded 61,000 deaths from extreme heat in 2023, and she estimated that about 500,000 people died from heat across the world last year.
Global temperatures have been gently rising for the last 300 years. Temperature metrics from NASA, NOAA, and the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom estimate that Earth’s surface temperatures have risen a little more than one degree Celsius, or about two degrees Fahrenheit, over the last 140 years. But are these warmer temperatures harmful to people?
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, most cases of influenza occur during December to March, the cold months in the United States. Influenza season in the southern hemisphere takes place during the cold months there, April through September. The peak months for COVID-19 infections tended to be the cold periods of the year. More people usually get sick during cold months than in warm months.
More people also die during winter months than summer months, according to many peer-reviewed studies. For example, Dr. Matthew Falagas of the Alfa Institute of Medical Sciences and five other researchers studied seasonal mortality in 11 nations. The research showed that the average number of deaths peaked in the coldest months of the year in all of them.
The late Dr. William Keating studied temperature-related deaths in six European countries for people aged 65 to 74. He concluded that deaths related to cold temperatures were nine times greater than those related to hot temperatures. Dr. Bjorn Lomborg, president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, has pointed out that moderate global warming will likely reduce human mortality.
Yet, on January 30, Dr. Colin J. Carlson of Georgetown University published a paper in Nature Medicine titled, “After millions of preventable deaths, climate change must be treated like a health emergency.” Carlson claims that climate change has caused about 166,000 deaths per year since the year 2000, or almost four million cumulative deaths.
Carlson admits that most of these deaths have been due to malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, or malnutrition and diarrheal diseases in south Asia. But he goes on to claim that deaths due to natural disasters and even cardiovascular disease should also be attributed to climate change. If death from cardiovascular disease can be counted as a climate death, almost any death can be counted.
The evidence doesn’t support these climate death claims. Malarial disease has plagued humanity throughout history, even when temperatures were colder than today. Dr. Paul Reiter, medical entomologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, points out that malaria was endemic to England 400 years ago during the colder climate of the Little Ice Age. The Soviet Union experienced an estimated 13 million cases of malaria during the 1920s, with 30,000 cases occurring in Archangel, a city located close to the frozen Arctic Circle.
Malnutrition has been declining during the gentle warming of the last century. During the early 1900s, as many as 10 million people would die from famine each decade globally. Today, world famine deaths have been reduced to under 500,000 people per decade. About 10% of the world’s people are malnourished today, but this is down from about 25% in 1970.
The number of deaths from natural disasters has also been falling during the warming over the last century. According to EM-DAT, the International Disaster Database, the deaths from disasters, including storms, famines, earthquakes, droughts, and floods, are down more than 90 percent over the last 100 years.
With deaths from natural disasters and famine declining, and since fewer people die in warmer temperatures, the case for counting deaths from global warming is poor at best. But don’t underestimate the ability of climate alarmists to create fear by exaggerating the data.
Steve Goreham is a speaker on energy, the environment, and public policy and the author of the new bestselling book Green Breakdown: The Coming Renewable Energy Failure.
There seems to be some confusion as to what constitutes a Climate Change. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter – maybe?
And what’s the big deal anyway? Elon is willing to sacrifice the little boys in Congo for his batteries.
Musk H@TE Much?
He will make the human race multi planet. No one else can or will, just SpaceX.
What about the purchase of Twitter to open it to “denier” and conservative voices, a sure loser for him, but he did it anyway, for the good of the US. AND he is suing Media Matters the leftist pro democrat propaganda outfit over their lies WRT X and his posts.
His Boring Company is attempting to improve transportation in built out cities.
What about his Neuralink?
What about his donations to try to fix San Antonio’s schools?
Yes, he was on electric vehicles about First, but he is not only a “super genius”, he is a business man. He saw a niche that he felt he could make a fortune getting into, and he did.
Check out the new university he plans on creating:
Texas Institute of Technology and Science.
Of course it will also have a degree in Advanced Social Studies.
Yep, he is also funny, IMO.
Now do some research. NASA picked SpaceX’s Starship as the ONLY lunar lander, because the SpaceX bid was substantially lower than the other contenders AND it is the only one that could possible be ready in time. Then the Oligarch, Jeff Bezos, got the Democrat party and Brandon through legislation MAKE NASA pick a second lander. Guess who got the contract? Yep, Blue Origin. Blue Origin still does not even have a orbital launch vehicle. Crony Capitalism much?
SO please clarify your post. I am sure Musk, who is all about vertical integration in his businesses, MUST actually employ the kids to mine his lithium.
I don’t hate Elon, and I certainly don’t begrudge the positive things he’s done, several of which you have pointed out.
I simply sarcastically pointed out Elon as one that is emblematic of businesses and wealth created on the backs of a scam and on those much poorer that eke out a tenuous living for the mistaken belief that EVs will save us all. It’s in keeping with the theme of the article that cold kills more than heat in this world. And I ask whether it’s worth it for the many poor children who will suffocate in the dark or die crushed in cobalt mines to find cobalt.
As are you for your cell phone, laptop and vape batteries
My vape is hand-cranked.
For some of us, it is ‘dry season’ or ‘rainy season’. Temperatures about the same, year-around.
Interestingly the second graph Average Number of Deaths per Disaster shows a vast decrease despite the Population growth from 1.89b To the more than 8b today. Greater than a four fold increase in population and still a 90% decline in deaths.
Then, the first graph shows cold related deaths about double in Australia than Sweden but Australia has 2.5 times the population…10.42B in Sweden vs 25.69B in Australia
This has nothing to do with climate. This is a developing narrative to run interference for growing evidence of deaths from the covid ‘vaccinations’.
Whilst a few people have made these ridiculous claims over the years not even the climate loonies took them seriously. Now it the next ‘Thing’.
Behind the curtain a much more ambitious campaign, that of a huge depopulation plan. Covid gave the nudge. Sri Lanka was the crash test dummy for the jump start. They destroyed their agriculture prohibiting pesticides and fertilizers. The economy collapsed, and people starved.
I was hoping Policy-Caused victims would be tallied by someone. Since, the elite ‘crime scene’ cleaners have layered over hundreds of articles of bogus Sri Lankan corruption as the cause of the disaster. Excess climate change deaths are the front for the much more vicious Davos plan to depeople the earth.
She lied.
It’s well known and documented that cold weather kills 10x as many people as hot weather
And yet no one on the left corrected Clinton
Reality and Hillary Clinton do not get along.
Hillary Rodham Clinton has had a life long record of prevarication and a distant relationship with the objective truth. She was kicked off of the Watergate investigative committee for lying.
She would have been kicked off the Watergate investigation for witholding/tampering with evidence except she was extremely well connected, politically. She managed to avoid the consequences of her own actions, much like the rest of her career.
Anyone got a corrected version of the Lancet graph.
(the one with equal scales on the cold and heat death sides ?)
Mr. Lomborg from a Swedish NGO that is fully on board with the climate change narrative, nonetheless notes that 4 million people around the world die each year because they DON’T have access to fossil fuels; freezing in winter and cooking and heating with parasite infested dung. Pretty sure the climate chicken littles will have a hard time topping that, and Mr. Lomborg recommends that the world leaders prioritize getting fossil fuels to those people that are at risk. Pretty sure that isn’t going to happen so those 4 million will just be casualties for the greater good
And , this small part of Tuckers interview .
“TUCKER Let’s touch on climate change. It’s still being pushed in the United States and Europe. What’s your position?
PUTIN: Humanity is not even a Type 1 civilization on the Kardashev scale. If we can’t harness the energy potential of the planet how can we control the climate?
TUCKER: Are you at least concerned?
PUTIN: I’m more concerned with real issues. Climate change is not one of them. The Earth does a fairly good job of regulating itself. And if Siberia gets a little warmer all the better. More farmland for Russia.
TUCKER: But what would you tell the true believers who’re convinced we’re headed for disaster?
PUTIN: I’d tell them worrying about climate change is like complaining about the weather. If you don’t like the climate, move. If you are worried about the weather, get an umbrella.”
Deaths from cold are 9 times those from heat globally, according to The Lancet:
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2023/04/08/110000-deaths-a-year-in-south-asia-due-to-rising-temperatures-claims-who/
This is even true in hot regions such as SE Asia.
A picture is worth a thousand words:
The graph shows the orange heat related deaths relatively unaffected by the years of warming but cold related deaths dropped by a lot – except in southern Asia because the temperature trend is reversed, it’s been getting colder there over the decades and cold related deaths have markedly increased.
“Climate change” is not defined. It can mean anything about everything as is often seen these days in the popular press.
Therefore, it is impossible to count the number of deaths attributable to “climate change”.
I doubt seriously if one death certificate issued anywhere has a cause listed as “Climate Change”. No Coroner worth his salt anywhere would sign such a document.
Unfortunately, I’m confident that there are Coroners who would be happy to sign off because they are True Believers and/or want to see their name in the papers. The media will be positively fawning over the first Coroners to do so.
No Coroner worth his salt anywhere would sign such a document.
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They succumb to pressure just like anyone else. Case in point:
George Floyd’s autopsy report. The title says “Neck Compression”
Reading down to the internal examination of the Neck, it says:
“… no areas of contusion or hemorrhage within the musculature.”
I’m guessing Dr. Baker was pressured into including Neck Compression
in the title.
Nicole Simpson’s probaby indicated “blood loss.”
““Climate change” is not defined. It can mean anything about everything as is often seen these days in the popular press.
Therefore, it is impossible to count the number of deaths attributable to “climate change”.”
That’s it.
Hillary has drawn the wrong conclusion (deliberately, imo).
Hillary’s main henchman and bagman, John Podesta, is taking over as Climate Czar for Biden. He will be working out of the White House instead of the State Department, where Kerry had his offices.
Is Hillary trying to work herself back into the White House?
The just-released Special Counsel report on Biden stealing classified documents paints a terrible picture of Joe Biden’s mental abilities. According to the report, Joe Biden couldn’t recall hardly anything when being questioned by the Special Counsel. The report basically portrays Biden as mentally incompetent, and gives this as an excuse to not prosecute Biden for stealing classified documents.
Yes, Stealing.
Biden was not authorized to take classified documents home with him. The only way Biden could have classified government documents is if he stole them because as a U.S. Senator or even a Vice President, he was not authorized to take classified documents home with him. So the only way he got them was to do so illegally.
The Biden “Justice” Department won’t prosecute Biden and give a lame excuse as their reason. No surprise here. The federal “justice” system is rigged to favor one political party and punish the other political party. That’s what’s going on here.
Yes, this report makes Biden look very shaky mentally and calls are already coming to remove him from office for mental incompetence using the 25th Amendment.
So they let Biden off on his classified documents. They should do the same for Trump’s classified documents. Trump had his classified documents locked up in a secure room. Biden had his classified documents in his garage in a box next to his Corvette.
Give them time. They’re working their way through what are laughingly called “universities” as we speak.
It’s as nonsensical as the claim about ‘killing future people’
I’m not familiar with the ‘killing future people’ claim.
Not taking sides on the issue and not attempting to derail, but, what do those who made the claim think about the “abortion” issue?
Clearly abortion reduces future climate deaths. Also future non-climate deaths. Does somewhat limit future lives, however.
I can’t imagine AGW cultists using death counts, because we know from Covid that you positively can’t fudge those numbers!
Speaking of fudge, I reckon all numbers citing deaths from climate change should be in brown font, as an indicator of where those numbers were pulled from.
Cold kills tens of thousands times more than heat.
Paper: 10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00138-3
Findings: The final analysis included 10 716 879 deaths from all causes. The small-area assessment estimated that each year in England and Wales, there was on average 791 excess deaths (empirical 95% CI 611-957) attributable to heat and 60 573 (55 796-65 145) attributable to cold.
Paper: 10.1016/S2542-5196(23)00023-2
Findings: Across the 854 urban areas in Europe, we estimated an annual excess of 203 620 (empirical 95% CI 180 882-224 613) deaths attributed to cold and 20 173 (17 261-22 934) attributed to heat.
Their scaremongering is laughable.
They are obviously claiming that more people die in the winter months so it is the cold weather that killed them. That is a biased analysis. I wonder if they included winter traffic accident deaths?
In the UK road deaths are highest during the summer months. The peak being in July. That’s the peak month for wildlife deaths on the roads too.
These nutters will find away to categorize earthquake deaths and road deaths under the climate change banner. And the media will lap it up without question.
Cold and hot weather death numbers are often total BS, similar to predictions of global warming doom since 1979.
The numbers of deaths DIRECTLY attributed to cold or hot weather is tiny compared with 3.3 million US all cause mortality last year.
The NOAA’s account of what it calls “weather-related deaths” suggests that during the 30-year period 1988 to 2017, an average of 134 heat-related deaths occurred annually, while 30 per year were cold-related
There is no logical connection between about 1 degree C. warming on over a century and the death count — there are too many other variables to eliminate
There are more deaths in the winter, but can you attribute them to cold weather?
Two examples I know of
An elderly, sickly relative in a nursing home catches influenza in the winter and dies. She never went outside the home. Is that a cold weather death?
A man with heart disease shovels some snow and dies of a heart attack. Do you blame the cold weather, but not his obesity, smoking and bad diet?
Cold or cool weather causes our blood vessels to constrict to conserve heat. That causes our blood pressure to rise causing increased strokes and heart attacks in the cooler months.
This article estimates heat-related deaths are about 500,000 per year compared with 4.6 million cold-related deaths yearly.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(21)00081-4/fulltext
And about half that “increase” comes from the increase in the minimum daily temperature. The daily temperature used to calculate the trend is max temp minus min temp and minimums have been increasing.
That goes directly to the argument of reducing cold deaths.
“And about half that “increase” comes from the increase in the minimum daily temperature.”
Actually, I think you will find that a lot more than half is from warmer minimum temps.
In many places nearly all calculated warming is from an increase in the minimums.
I’ve seen its a little more than half, but not a lot more. Do you have a reference?
Maybe I didn’t state it properly.
Increase in temperature is weighted heavily to Winter compared to Summer
Take USCRN… JJA linear trend =0.065/yr DJF linear trend = 0.115/yr
Down under, UAH Australia since 1979..
Summer linear trend 0.0099C/yr Winter 0.0264C/year.
Pretty sure you would see the same thing with min and max temperatures.
Also technically its better described an average rather than just subtraction. My previous description was rubbish. It amounts to the same thing, though. Lots of minimum increase appearing to be warming and to the layman they just see it as implied increasing maximum temperatures.
The min and max global temperature calculation are completely irrelevant for weather experienced in any given location.
Nevertheless, its used universally to imply local temperature increases. Its a blunt instrument.
With the mass migrations to cities around the world, the urban heat island effect is holding the warmth at night raising minimum temperatures.
Two points. Number one I don’t need nor do I want advice from Hillary on anything. She is a bad person. Number two she needs to be called out personally and publicly. She knows nothing except how to jack her jaws.
A very bad person.
She is instrumental in the persecution of Donald Trump and his supporters. Instrumental in undermining our system of government.
Hillary’s political machinations are a danger to our personal freedoms.
Lock her up!
It is incredible how many of us here in the upper Midwest manage to survive every year when temperatures go from below freezing in January to the 70’s and 80’s F in July and August. Do you realize that is only a 6-month time frame?
And then we go back down again to freezing temps in January and February. I am at a lose to explain how I’ve survived all these decades.
ignorance is bliss?
Citing Hillary Clinton at COP28 is really scraping the bottom of the alarm barrel.
She was forced off the Watergate investigation for lying. She enabled the deaths of four US citizens in Ben Ghazi while Secretary of State. She destroyed subpoenaed evidence in 2016. She confounded heat and cold deaths at COP28.
When alarmists cite her, they only damage their own credibility.
This post is a nice factual putdown demonstrating damaged credibility.
When they think she speaks for the Party, it is inconceivable to question what she says. That is the essence of consensus politics.
“At this point, what difference does it make.” – Hillary Clinton, probably
“In December, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke at COP28, the 28th United Nations Climate Conference, and mentioned climate-related deaths.
“We are seeing and beginning to pay attention and to count and record the deaths that are related to climate,” she said. “And by far the biggest killer is extreme heat.”
According to Ms. Clinton, Europe recorded 61,000 deaths from extreme heat in 2023, and she estimated that about 500,000 people died from heat across the world last year.”
I looked for that deceptive Lancet chart about heat vs cold deaths by country (The one where they split the “X” axis scale in the middle so the “heat deaths” would show up.).
I couldn’t find a link to just the graphic. If someone can put it up …?
(Hillary is even less “trustworthy” now as she was when she lost to Trump!)
Go to the WUWT search tool and enter ‘Lancet death chart’. It will take you to the post six months ago with the starting title “Lancet chicanery exposed…”. That is the post that features the deliberately deceptive chart, and then it redone correctly with a uniform x axis.
Interesting thanks BUT confusing – July is in the SUMMER in Australia, thus hottest time of year.
Nope. Winter down under. Australia is in the southern hemisphere.
Nope, July is mid winter.
Dec, Jan, Feb are summer…. Nov also included by coastal folk, because they like a long summer. 🙂
Also , where most people live in Australia, Winter doesn’t generally get all that cold
You need to get up into the Great Dividing Range before negative Celcius temperatures become a regular winter occurrence.
Seriously! Someone who doesn’t know that the Southern Hemisphere has the opposite weather/climate to the Northern Hemisphere.
This is no different than the EPA attribution of millions of deaths due to unregulated emissions of PM2.5. Thier models show that disadvantaged people disproportionally are impacted by PM 2.5 from diesel trucks making the case for EV trucks in urban environments. However, they can never produce the “dead bodies” needed to substantiate their claim. So, it is all based on statistics and models that have never been validated by peer review or anyone else.
But the plies of dead bodies must be somewhere, we just haven’t found them yet.
And when we find those bodies, Jimmy Hoffa and will almost certainly be among them . . . 🙂
I am not sure how they will differentiate the ‘climate’ deaths from the all the excess deaths that started shortly after covid and around the time of a medical experiment.
Bury the lede, much?
But maybe the counting thing will be a good thing: if we get really good at counting MRNA gene therapy deaths, for instance, we can start to get a handle on how “we” handled the last health emergency.
In February of 2021, I lived near downtown Austin TX in remodeled house built in 1901. I had natural gas for hot water, cooking and forced air heat. Texas was hit by a significant cold front that froze wind turbines and gas transmission valves and significantly threatened the entire Texas electric grid.
I had 10″ of snow on the ground and temperatures hovering between 7 and 15 degrees/F and no electric power. Since I had CO and CO2 detectors, I had no problem heating my house from the stove and I trickled water from the faucet to prevent my pipes from freezing. And, I keep a 4-month supply of non-perishable food at all times. So, I was in fair shape compared to most of my neighbors that were forced to abandon their homes because they had no power for their electric heaters.
My power was out for four days. Afterwards, I looked at the ERCOT (manages Texas grid) Fuel Mix Report for this period which is a report of power output by source in 15-minute intervals. During the aftermath of the storm, natural gas output recovered by 400%, but wind turbine output did not recover at all. Why? Because there was no wind. It took 6 days for wind power to start adding significantly to the grid. A complete Texas blackout was prevented, in fact, by fossil fuel.
So, were the deaths that occurred during this time a result of climate change? Or bad decision-making on the part of Texas to rely on wind power for 25% of its grid, or, bad decisions by homeowners to completely electrify their residences? Because I was mildly inconvenienced since I had natural gas appliances.
What an effing joke.
I’ve got a MUCH better idea.
Let’s count the number of “environmentist policy driven deaths.”
So every death from:
Malnourishment or starvation due to food shortages or high prices caused by bans on chemical fertilizer use, GMOs, etc.Hypothermia and heat stroke due to power outages caused by wind and solar in the grid and removal of dispatchable sources from the grid.Malaria post DDT ban.At the hands of people becoming homeless and desperate due to lack of affordable energy (including suicides).Inability to evacuate from the path of weather disasters due to EV proliferation, grid overloads, traffic jams caused by blockage of roads with “dead” EVs, etc.Individuals dependent on medical devices that require reliable power due to power outages caused by wind and solar in the grid and removal of dispatchable sources from the grid.Rioting caused by food and fuel shortages, and power outages caused by wind and solar in the grid and removal of dispatchable sources from the grid.Criminals that take advantage of interruptions in availability of communication and electricity caused by wind and solar in the grid and removal of dispatchable sources from the grid.EV fires.Flying windmill blades.Toppling windmill towers.Disputes in EV charging station lines.Supply chain breakdowns due to forced adoption of EV trucks.Hypothermia due to forced dependence on inadequate heating equipment/banning of fossil fuel powered heating equipment.EV ambulances, EV fire trucks and EV police cars that fail to get emergency responders where they need to go due to dead batteries.Loss of emergency services due to mandated use of EVs for ambulances, fire trucks and police cars during power outages.Probably not a complete list and which does not include ANY items like their list does whose connection to the cause is tenuous at best and fiction at worst.
Rationally, a cost/benefit analysis is necessary. Some people lost their lives in coal mine disasters, some suffered shortened lives do to lung damage. Most likely there have been other vectors reducing the length of life and quality of life of people involved in coal mining, processing, delivery, and use. It isn’t necessary to minimize their personal and family tragedies on the cost side to realize that there have been billions of lives markedly enhanced by coal use on the benefit side.
The general political and activists response is to sacrifice the benefits of the majority for small improvements on the conditions of the minority, bringing all to the same low level of misery.
Only in this case, there are not even “small improvements” to ANYTHING being made by junk science based policies; it’s “all pain, no gain” – and considerable harm is being done, all in the pursuit of non-solutions to an imaginary problem.
According to the National Museum of Australia 435 people died during a heat wave in the summer 1895 – 96 in Australia and they compare that with 432 people who died during a heat wave in 2009.
What they don’t mention is that the population of Australia in 1895 was 3.5 m compared to 22 m in 2009.
Also that through pernicious energy policies recent Australian governments have set about making air conditioning increasingly unaffordable for vulnerable people.
Mrs. Bill Clinton probably knows more about excess deaths from alcoholism, an actual problem, than excess heat.
Those are actually just the people she had bumped off, reported as climate deaths.
If the planet has experienced a gradual warming during the last 300 years and the overall population has been steadily rising, how can anyone claim that global warming is increasing the number of deaths? A half-century ago, the global population was about 4 billion; just recently it has surpassed 8 billion. So if it has continued this steady rise, doesn’t that prove that humans are much more resilient than the climate alarmists would have us believe? Or maybe it shows that we benefit more from warmer temperatures than we did during the earlier ice ages.
There is very little extreme heat, as we know most of that 1.3c rise is warmer evenings and winters meaning fewer cold deaths but little or no heat deaths.
All benefit, all the time.
Perhaps we should start with the depopulation of Europe during the little ice age when crop failures, malnutrition and infectious plagues caused the European population to fall possibly by more than half. And while we are at it let’s count the number of deaths avoided by rising crop yields and greening of the earth during the recent period of rising atmospheric CO2 and mild climate warming. And we should also add in the number of living humans on Earth today who are only in existence because of the energy, safety, nutrition and security that the Industrial Revolution provided using fossil fuels as the feed stock.
Perhaps we should also include on our life-death spread sheet the experience of countries like Stalinist USSR, Maoist China, the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia where tens of millions perished prematurely because of government policies based on ideologies rather than true science and objective facts.
Hilary Clinton should stick to focusing on the deaths of American diplomats under her management and stay away from contributing to the destruction of systems that keep over 8 billion people alive and thriving globally.
Simple. Is he dead? Is the body colder now than when he died? Must have ben climate change.
As we can see, the pandemic response propaganda model developed using deep learning at John’s Hopkins in July 2019 solved for pattern to address two problems: 1) potential lack of fear of the pandemic threat, 2) the lack of fear of Climate Change threat. This is the reason that the pandemic threat was piggy backed by the climate threat. Of course this points to a political impetus doesn’t it. Imagine the psychological damage?
Yet even now we still don’t have a unequivocal assessment of pandemic deaths. Compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges, it’s not clear how to assess it. Go to CDC data base (it was there is 2020 if it’s gone now then there you have it ..censorship) and compare 2016 or 2009 or 2018 deaths due to viral respiratory infections and deaths due to respiratory viral exacerbations of chronic lung disease and you get close to the same number of deaths in 2020. Some one needs to do a deep dive and unequivocally lay out a truly expert peer reviewed epidemiolocal analysis without all the political BS.
Dream big but don’t hold your breath.
Since the green meanies are predicting increasingly horrific magnitudes of seasonal storms, I assume that my likelihood of dying from a respiratory virus in my old age (which if you live long enough is how most people die) is now replaced by flood, hurricane, hail, tornado, fire that can come at anytime and if I live long enough it will happen to me and every one else I love. Oh No the dread of it!
Is the solution to run out an buy a EV and pay through the nose or to vote yes to a carbon tax, anti-off grid laws and new nuke plants? Or to wear masks, constantly slathering myself with alcohol and never touching my face and avoid all the places I loved to go and be constantly monitoring myself for the sniffles…….nuts to all that crazy. I live like before the crazy was unleashed on us… no fear.
See how fear deforms reality! Fear turns people into self righteous individuals with diminished intellectual capacity and reduced capacity to live in reality and function productively in reality. Churchill, “there is nothing to fear but fear itself” We all die, get over it. It’s what we do until then that matters….which is life limb and the pursuit of happiness…. with dignity and honor seeking to serve my neighbor… .even when I am a little under the weather.
If it wasn’t for libraries, Planet Fitness (great place to build free immunity LOL) old books and movies from the 30’s and great cigars, I ‘d likely die of boredom which is far worse experience than a virus or hurricane.
Since Climate Polcy-Caused destruction and widespread deaths in Sri Lanka, I’ve been cautioning that some knowledgeable sceptic group should be tallying C Policy-Caused deaths as this genocide spreads. Predictably, the elite totalitarians are using ‘climate deaths’ as a cover for the program to pare us down to a population of a billion.
The graph seems intentionally misleading in that it plots the Australian data in Red (HOT!) and with the reduced Y axis it seems disproportionately greater. A quick check on per capita ( Aus ~27 million, Sweden ~10.5 million) shows Aus has a range of 12.4 deaths per million in summer to 15.2 in winter while Sweden ranges from 22.4 to 27.6 per million, about 1.8 times the per capita rate of Australia.
Lets face it while the summer in Oz can get very hot in places Sweden gets a bloody sight colder all over in winter. The graph is clear evidence that it is colder climates that have higher death rates both year round and in winter.
How the heck does this sort of flimsy junk get published?
I have a big problem with attribution “science” particularly with climate change related deaths.
Both my parents died a couple of years ago of cardiovascular disease at very advanced ages. Their cardiorespiratory slowly degradated until they died, as is very often the case. That hotter or colder days impose more demand in a failing cardiorespiratory system is a fact, so indeed, that might accelerate days or weeks an otherwise inevitable event, and undoubtedly show in statistics relating death vs. temperature, but it is deeply wrong to confuse the acceleration of an event otherwise “inevitable” with the (main) cause of a death. In the case like my parent’s, death would not be prevented without climate change, and it is absurd to state that the death spikes when temperatures peak are attributable to temperatures due to climate change. That is, though, what many wrongly assume to reach the desired outcome.
I wonder how many of the circa 60 million ‘death certificates’ from around the World annually highlight CC as the cause of death? I will hazard a guess – nada, nichts, rien, zero!