Lancet Study Shows Cold Far More Deadlier Than Heat—Media Silent
A new, comprehensive Lancet study shows that far more people are being killed globally by cold weather than by hot weather.
Die kalte Sonne here looks at the impacts of temperature extremes on mortality. There’s no doubt that extreme weather kills more people.
But the question in these times of “global warming” is whether or not warming is going to lead to more deaths.
A new publication in the renowned journal Lancet, by Burkart et al studied 65 million deaths in 9 countries occurring between Jan 1, 1980, and Dec 31, 2016, in relation to temperature effects.
The researchers found that 17 of the 176 categories for the cause of death “showed J-shaped relationships with daily temperature, whereas the risk of external causes (eg, homicide, suicide, drowning, and related to disasters, mechanical, transport, and other unintentional injuries) increased monotonically with temperature.”
The 17 causes of death with J-shaped curves (dependent of temperature) included heart disease, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, lower respiratory infection, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Using the data, the team of authors extrapolated the results to the entire global population and examined the year 2019.
Almost 20 times more deaths were attributed to cold than to heat in South Africa. Image: Burkart et al 2021, Lancet.
The authors estimate in 2019, “the average cold-attributable mortality exceeded heat-attributable mortality in all countries for which data were available.” Cold effects were most pronounced in China and in New Zealand.
In China, a population attributable fraction (PAF) from cold effects was 4·3% (3·9–4·7) and the attributable rates were 32.0 deaths (27.2–36.8) per 100,000.
But when looking at the heat effects in China, the PAF was only 0·4% and the attributable rates were 3·25 deaths per 100,000. In other words, cold death rates were about 10 times higher than heat deaths.
In South Africa, the authors attributed almost 20 times more deaths to cold than to heat (8372 vs 453)!
Image cropped from Die kalte Sonne.
Cold definitely kills more than heat does by a long shot, and so warming would save lives. The study was sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Are these findings being blared out by the mainstream media? No, of course not.
And why not? Because they want people to believe the Earth is going to boil away.
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very old white guy
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I did not need a study of any sort to prove that. Is everybody officially stupid?
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Alan
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I notice that the study was funded by Bill Gates. This global warming nutcase will not be happy with that report.
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Andy
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No he won’t, and I’m rather surprised he didn’t supress it so no-one ever saw it.
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yougottaloveme
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Perhaps Gates now feels compelled to begin becoming publicly aware that Earth is cooling, and that out of a sense of PR and a diminishing “credibility survival” he is beginning to hedge his bets, fearing that it won’t go well for him to be stuck fully out on the warming limb when cold causes mass starvation.
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Andy
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Is there a problem with the article?
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Jerry Krause
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Hi Andy,
You ask: “Is there a problem with the article?”
When I read “A new publication in the renowned journal Lancet, by Burkart et al studied 65 million deaths in 9 countries occurring between Jan 1, 1980, and Dec 31, 2016, in relation to temperature effects.”, I dismiss it because the claimed study is not practically possible.
Have a good day, Jerry
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LLOYD
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Why is it not practical? Explain
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Jerry Krause
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Hi Lloyd,
“studied 65 million deaths”. Have you studied 65 million anything??? Another possible question. Of 65 million deaths, how many deaths were actually attributed to heat and how many deaths were actually attributed to cold???
Have a good day, Jerry
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