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Quote Originally Posted by Raiders22:
@thirdperson Quote Originally Posted by thirdperson: For years, mostly right wing media has downplayed dangers of extreme heat. When people are dissuaded from taking safety precautions, more lives can be put at risk. But heat is a silent killer responsible for more deaths than all weather disasters combined according to National weather service. Apparently, humans can adapt to cold better than heat. Many homes have furnaces but fewer have air conditioners. I do not expect you to reply, because you never replied back to any of my points in the other Global Warming threads. You simply abandoned the threads. But give me an example of where the dangers of excessive heat has been downplayed. They are, if anything, overplayed by all media when, especially when it warms up. That is all you hear about is how dangerous the heat is. This is all science and all about learning from mistakes and correcting misconceptions. For example NOAA will say more deaths are from heat while the CDC will say more deaths are from cold. Heat is not responsible for more deaths. Yes, as it gets warmer more folks die from heat and fewer from cold but still more die from heat. For example, from various places: "The study found more people had died of cold than heat over the two-decade period." "I can see why one can argue that winter (or cold-related) mortality is greater.” That was certainly the conclusion of a 2015 epidemiological study of deaths in 13 countries in The Lancet, which found that cold-related deaths in the U.S. were about a factor of fifteen higher than heat-related deaths. Cold deaths outnumbered heat deaths by a factor of twenty when averaged over all 13 countries studied." "Despite the fact that the climate has warmed in the U.S. in recent decades (by 1.3°F to 1.9°F since 1895, with much of that increase occurring since 1970), the study found that the death rate due to heat has been decreasing, due to adaptation."
@thirdperson Quote Originally Posted by thirdperson: For years, mostly right wing media has downplayed dangers of extreme heat. When people are dissuaded from taking safety precautions, more lives can be put at risk. But heat is a silent killer responsible for more deaths than all weather disasters combined according to National weather service. Apparently, humans can adapt to cold better than heat. Many homes have furnaces but fewer have air conditioners. I do not expect you to reply, because you never replied back to any of my points in the other Global Warming threads. You simply abandoned the threads. But give me an example of where the dangers of excessive heat has been downplayed. They are, if anything, overplayed by all media when, especially when it warms up. That is all you hear about is how dangerous the heat is. This is all science and all about learning from mistakes and correcting misconceptions. For example NOAA will say more deaths are from heat while the CDC will say more deaths are from cold. Heat is not responsible for more deaths. Yes, as it gets warmer more folks die from heat and fewer from cold but still more die from heat. For example, from various places: "The study found more people had died of cold than heat over the two-decade period." "I can see why one can argue that winter (or cold-related) mortality is greater.” That was certainly the conclusion of a 2015 epidemiological study of deaths in 13 countries in The Lancet, which found that cold-related deaths in the U.S. were about a factor of fifteen higher than heat-related deaths. Cold deaths outnumbered heat deaths by a factor of twenty when averaged over all 13 countries studied." "Despite the fact that the climate has warmed in the U.S. in recent decades (by 1.3°F to 1.9°F since 1895, with much of that increase occurring since 1970), the study found that the death rate due to heat has been decreasing, due to adaptation."
Exactly!
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