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Boston Globe Admits Global Warming Has Saved Lives – Rising Because of That?


Essay by Eric Worrall

h/t M; Cold is a far greater threat to the health of hairless tropical apes than warmth – but MSM journalists admit this obvious fact is few and far between.

Arguable – If you can’t heat up

Jeff Jacoby
Monday, July 25, 2022

I hate hot weather. I’ve always hated hot weather. I’m pretty sure I’ve always hated hot weather. One of my kids lives in Texas, and I’ve watched in horror as the heat wave has sent temperatures in his city above 100 degrees every day for the past two weeks. It was bad in most of Europe , where triple-digit temperatures scorched England, France and Spain. Then again, things don’t get much better in Boston, where the thermometer on Sunday afternoon Officially hit 100 degrees.

But there are two silver linings. One is that the heat projections for the United States are somewhat less severe than for other regions of the planet. The latest federal government National Climate Assessment points out that while the frequency of intense heat waves Americans have experienced since the 1960s has been increasing, we are still far behind the records set nearly a century ago. “Heat wave intensity peaked in the 1930s” the report said. “The Dust Bowl era of the 1930s was still the peak of extreme heat.”

Other silver linings are more encouraging: The drop in extreme cold is saving more lives than the increase in heat waves is costing. All around the world, cold weather kills more people than hot weather. One The study was published last summer in The Lancet found that between 2000 and 2019, there were almost 5.1 million deaths due to extreme heat. About 500,000 of those deaths were heat-related, while nearly 4.6 million were cold-related.

Read more (With wall fee): https://www.bostonglobe.com/newsletters/arguable/

Jeff Jacoby at Arguable then goes on to show how modern air conditioners help people cope with extreme weather, warm or cold.

But air conditioners are only useful if you can afford to run them.

In a world where energy is becoming increasingly inaccessible, thanks to clumsy green political interference in our energy markets, large numbers of vulnerable people are facing unnecessarily exposed to conditions that could be harmful to their health.



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