Moreover, heavy-handed climate policies will increase heating costs and make cold deaths even more prevalent. Tackling cold deaths turns out to be much harder, because it requires well-heated homes over weeks and months. The rest of the world needs access to the same simple technologies to drastically reduce heat deaths. Yet the numbers of heat deaths have halved over the same period - thanks to technology. This is abundantly clear for the United States: The share of hot days has increased since 1960 and affected a steadily larger population. These include making air conditioning more widely available, issuing heat alerts, opening public pools and air-conditioned malls and urging people to use fans and drink plenty of water. We already know much more effective and simple ways to help. Yet the obsession with cutting CO₂ emissions ends up promoting some of the least effective ways to help future victims of heat and cold.Ĭlimate policy will at best slightly check the increase in heat deaths. On average, it saves upwards of 100,000 lives each year. A landmark study in the medical journal Lancet found that climate change over the past decades has across every region averted more cold deaths than it has caused additional heat deaths. Globally, 1.7 million people die of cold each year, dwarfing heat deaths (300,000).įor now, rising temperatures likely save lives. In India, cold deaths outnumber heat deaths 7 to 1. The same pattern holds, including in countries not typically associated with frigid winters. Oregon heat wave victims older, lived alone, had no AC Each year, more than 100,000 people die from cold in the United States, and 13,000 in Canada - more than 40 cold deaths for every heat death. Of course, if they were just a curiosity, the indifference might be justified, but they are anything but. Those deaths are rarely reported, because they don’t fit the current climate narrative. Cold restricts blood flow to keep our core warm, increasing blood pressure and killing through strokes, heart attacks and respiratory diseases. However, rising temperatures also reduce cold waves and cold deaths. Heat deaths are beguilingly click-worthy, and studies show that heat kills about 2,500 people every year in the United States and Canada.
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But the media fail to report the full story and thus lose focus on the most effective ways to help. As temperatures increase, so will the frequency and severity of heat waves. The stories contain a kernel of truth: Global warming is a real, manmade problem that needs addressing. But they mostly reveal how one-sided climate-alarmist reporting leaves us badly informed. The stories invariably blame climate change and admonish us to tackle it urgently. Headlines from around the world tell us of hundreds of deaths caused by recent heat waves. Leonardo DiCaprio funneled grants through dark money group to fund climate nuisance lawsuits NYC officials blame city’s sinkhole surge on ‘climate crisis’ The Dems’ big new $739B climate bill will do almost nothing for the climate
Germany’s painful lesson for US climate warriors on the dangers of going green
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