Of course, the precise figures are not based on actual fatality data but are modelled estimates using population numbers and previous historical stats on temperature and summer mortality.
Category: heat wave
Wrong, AP and NPR: Europe’s 50,000 Heat Deaths Are a Computer-Model Estimate, Not a Real Body Count
A model can calculate an estimate, generate a counterfactual, and assign statistical probabilities, but a computer model cannot examine a body, determine a cause of death, sign a death certificate,…
Climate Death Toll: Batteries Not Included
CNN is here to tell us just how bad the most recent summer was. Their headline says: ‘Worst on record’: Brutal summer heat wave killed more than 50,000 in Europe’s…
US September “Heat” Was No Record…Many Records Set Decades Ago
Not a Single Heat Record was Broken in September in the United States. Some Records Going Back to 1881
ONS Peddling Fake Heatwave Deaths Scare
It was only two weeks ago that I wrote about the official cover up of excess deaths in winter. It did not take long for my suspicions to be confirmed.
Europe’s Worst Drought and Heatwave Ever
Instead of addressing weather/climate rationally, everything bad is blamed on fossil fuels so that politicians continually make bad decisions and resources are diverted away from where they are really needed.…
Met Office Heatwave Death Claim Was Fake News
There is no spike in deaths at any stage during 3-month period. Cumulatively there were 136,066 deaths last year and 135,466 this year.
Farce Of The Week: Germany’s Weather Site Donnerwetter.de Attempts To Measure The Rhine River’s Temperature!
The video has made a splash across the German Internet because of the obviously totally shoddy manner the measurement was performed!
ECMWF Models Throwing Cold Water on Extreme Germany Heat Wave Forecast Next Week
Recent Germany forecasts of “never seen before heat” coming next week are already fizzling out. Of course there’s going to be some hot weather next week, but probably nothing like…
Munich’s First-Ever Green Party Mayor Declares First Ever City Water Use Restrictions… Fines Up to 50,000 €!
Kolja Barghoorn feels the restrictions have nothing to do with an actual crisis, and everything to do with wanting to create one in order to spread panic.
BBC Peddle Fake Heatwave Deaths Claims
Unlike these shysters, I am going wait until the actual mortality data is available, which is generally three weeks after the deaths occur – ONS data is for deaths registered,…
No, USA Today, 4th of July Heat was NOT “Climate Change.”
This USA Today article is an embarrassing example of journalistic negligence and demonstrates a lack of understanding about weather history and how record-setting works when 365 days of an entire…
Fatal Snobbery: In France, It’s Better To Die From A Heatwave Than to Do as Americans
French authorities seem to prefer seeing citizens suffer through heatwaves – and die by the thousands – than utilizing modern air conditioning.
No, New York Times, Climate Change Isn’t Causing Modern Heat Waves
The failure belongs squarely with the NYT simply parroting, without critical examination, a climate advocacy organization’s unverified claims.
Right, Fortune, Europe’s Heat Crisis Is of Its Own Making
Fortune should be applauded for publishing Engelaar’s piece acknowledging that Europe’s leaders’ energy policies, not climate change, are to blame for the deaths and lost economic activity caused by extreme heat.…
Separating Weather from Hysteria: The ‘Double Heat Dome’ Story
My forecast calls for sensible precautions and a healthy dose of skepticism toward overheated rhetoric.
In France, The Government Tries to Prevent the People From Getting Air Conditioning
Somehow the Left has gone from being the advocate of the working class, to seeking to punish the working class. Why, I cannot explain.
Wrong, Newsweek, Europe’s Heat Deaths Are a Policy Failure, not a Climate Failure
Europe’s recurring heat deaths are the predictable consequence of governments discouraging the very technology that has protected Americans, and elites in in their own countries, from deadly summer heat for…
It’s Summer Again, So Media Tees-Up Another Round of ‘Heat Dome’ Mania
In response to the Western Europe summer heat wave, France bans drinking alcohol in public.