Over the past 11,000 years of the current interglacial period, phases of prosperity and cultural flourishing were indeed linked to warmer temperatures. A reduction in deaths with rising temperatures can also be observed for the last two decades.
Fact: Cold kills nearly 30 times more people than extreme heat, 4.6 million vs. 0.155 million.
Rising temperatures drive up the number of heat deaths, but not in extreme heat, but in moderate heat, as TKP recently reported and broke down. However, rising temperatures also reduce the number of deaths from cold.
Bjorn Lomborg used this data to illustrate the ratios graphically:
Overall, this has meant saving 166,000 lives per year over the last two decades. This is according to the Lancet study by Qi Zhao (2021), which TKP has already reported on.
“Globally, 5,083,173 deaths per year were associated with sub-optimal temperatures, accounting for 9.43% of all deaths. 8.52% were cold-related and 0.91% were heat-related. There were 74 temperature-related excess deaths per 100,000 population. The mortality burden varied geographically.”
Eastern Europe had the highest heat-related excess mortality rate and sub-Saharan Africa had the highest cold-related excess mortality rate.
So we see that global warming saves lives, exactly the opposite of what politicians like Health Minister Karl Lauterbach or EU-Leyen claim and of course the mainstream media.
Full article here: https://tkp.at/2024/08/11/steigende-temperaturen-retten-leben
Hat-tip: Linke Zeitung here
(Translated/summarized in the English by Pierre Gosselin)
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Gross exaggeration
No lives are being “saved” by a slight warming in the winters.
People with heart disease might live slightly longer if the winters are slightly warmer, but there are no data to support that theory.
In the US, for example, there is no downtrend of heart disease deaths as our winters got warmer since the 1970s.
In fact, more younger people are having heart attacks due to increases of obesity and lack of physical exercise. That has not affected the heart disease death rate because they almost always survive heart attacks. Heart disease has been the leading US cause of death for 100 years,
NoTricksZone is an unreliable source of information
Must be nice to be the smartest man who posts comments here, much smarter than the people who write the articles Tom posts here. You are conflating such things as heart disease for an overweight society such as the US with saved lives in countries that do not have such diseases.
Well, well. Such a surprise. All living things do better in mild weather conditions than in freezing ones, whether animal or vegetable