There’s a catastrophic black hole in our climate data – and it’s a gift to deniers. Climate sceptics tell us that more people die of extreme cold than extreme heat. What’s the truth?
Source: The_Weekend_Baker
There’s a catastrophic black hole in our climate data – and it’s a gift to deniers. Climate sceptics tell us that more people die of extreme cold than extreme heat. What’s the truth?
Source: The_Weekend_Baker
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>I began by trying to discover whether or not a widespread belief was true. In doing so, I tripped across something even bigger: an index of the world’s indifference. I already knew that by burning fossil fuels, gorging on meat and dairy, and failing to make even simple changes, the rich world imposes a massive burden of disaster, displacement and death on people whose responsibility for the climate crisis is minimal. What I’ve now stumbled into is the vast black hole of our ignorance about these impacts.
I don’t think anyone says that climate change is expected to have fewer people die from extreme cold, but that, in addition to deathes from cold climate change increases the likelyhood of death due to starvation, exposure to extreme weather events such as floods and hurricanes and yes, also heat waves.
Sure more people die from the cold than from heat, but way way more die from PM2.5 and NOx.
Besides the fake statistics, the real issue is that this is a non-issue. You have a relatively small number of people dying of cold decreasing and a relatively small number of people dying of heat increasing. As the number of deaths due to the cold can only go to zero and the number of deaths due to heat can go up the number of humans on the planet, these risks are incomparable. Even if there were less heat related deaths than cold related deaths now, the risk of increased heat deaths is extremely more worrying.
What a libbed up title lmao the deniers are in a death cult and extorted to stay in it by those controlling a false discourse. Organize (not here) and resist.