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48,000 Brits dead after worst winter in 42 years
Daily Star ^ | 7th April 2018 | Hayley Coyle

Posted on 04/08/2018 12:45:22 PM PDT by george76

THE UK is being hit by its worst winter death toll in 42 years,

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temperatures are set to dip again in April after the chilliest March in 21 years.

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Campaigners have called the deaths a “national tragedy” as cold weather victims fatalities could be prevented - especially in the elderly.

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this winter is set to total at least 48,000 deaths due to cold weather – which works out at an average of one death every three and a half minutes.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailystar.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Outdoors; Weather
KEYWORDS: agw; climatechange; globalwarming; uk
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To: SamAdams76

Reminds me of a conversation I once had with a senior sports executive. He told me they average 1-2 spectator fatalities every year at a certain well-known sports event. That sounded outrageous to me until he pointed out that there are 160,000+ people in attendance, and on any given day in a population that large there is a statistical likelihood that a few of them would die of natural causes.


21 posted on 04/08/2018 1:00:57 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.")
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To: george76
England sure loses a lot of people if the weather ever changes much.

Recall reading about them dropping dead when the heat got into the 80's for a few days.

22 posted on 04/08/2018 1:02:01 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Give me the liberty to take care of my own security..........)
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To: dfwgator
That’s why so many Brits bought winter homes in Spain.

And the Spanish have a phrase for them:

The tall sunburned people with bad teeth.

23 posted on 04/08/2018 1:03:40 PM PDT by spokeshave (recovering Spokeshave from another computer.)
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To: george76

From the headline, I thought this article would be dated at least 100 years ago.


24 posted on 04/08/2018 1:07:28 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (I told you so)
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To: x_plus_one

That’s my understanding, and the elderly and presumably vulnerable frequently die from hypothermia.


25 posted on 04/08/2018 1:08:49 PM PDT by Aliska
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To: george76

I would bet due the British attitude towards global warming there are costly restrictions to common sense usage of heating appliances.


26 posted on 04/08/2018 1:10:16 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Conservatives seek the truth. Democrats seek the power to dictate what truth is.)
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To: george76

Probably hiding all the deaths due to waiting for socialist healthcare.


27 posted on 04/08/2018 1:11:19 PM PDT by Leep (Make The Swamp Small Again!)
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To: george76

Oh I say, frightfully bad.


28 posted on 04/08/2018 1:12:42 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: x_plus_one

However, they do use fireplace with coal, gas, or electric heat.
When I lived in Wroughton, UK the flat had one electric heater that required shillings in a meter to heat the rooms.
Unless you stayed in the sitting room the temp in winter time was a cool 55 degrees.


29 posted on 04/08/2018 1:15:45 PM PDT by Doc91678 (Doc91678)
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To: Doc91678

Either you pay the electric meter or the gas meter and it isn’t cheap. The socialists don’t care if they freeze the elderly with expensive energy.


30 posted on 04/08/2018 1:21:29 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: Doc91678

Either you pay the electric meter or the gas meter and it isn’t cheap. The socialists don’t care if they freeze the elderly with expensive energy.


31 posted on 04/08/2018 1:21:30 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: george76

Install modern windows.


32 posted on 04/08/2018 1:22:31 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Happy Nobama)
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To: george76

Here in SW Pennsylvania its going down to 22 degrees tonight. I want my global warming,and I want it now!


33 posted on 04/08/2018 1:26:51 PM PDT by 4yearlurker ("There stands mother under the oleanders,open the windows." A dying cowboys last words,1879.)
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To: george76
I say BS. If anyone died of cold they were lost or drunk or both.

My guess is that in the UK *maybe* two or there deaths per day during the winter months were directly attributable to hypothermia.
 

34 posted on 04/08/2018 1:27:56 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: george76

Da Fuq?!

The UK is a first-world nation, yet 48k Brits die from the cold? Doubt there were that many civilians who died annually during medieval times or even during WW2 when Germany was bombing them into the underground. This report does not pass the “smell test”. I call bu!!sh!t on this one.


35 posted on 04/08/2018 1:28:02 PM PDT by Liberal Anti Venom (Freedom exists not to do what you like, but having the right to do what you ought. ~John Paul II~)
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To: Oldexpat

Today’s dead frozen pensioner is tomorrow’s contribution to social justice. That’s how socialism works.


36 posted on 04/08/2018 1:29:55 PM PDT by blackdog
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To: dfwgator
#20: "Theresa May and the Tories."

Tess is a Tory? Dang, you could've fooled me! She must be from the G. W. Bush branch.
 

37 posted on 04/08/2018 1:33:23 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: blackdog

As they continue to restrict energy production and consumption in the UK they’ll be burning them soon!

At least the ones that don’t end up Solyent Green!


38 posted on 04/08/2018 1:34:53 PM PDT by Reily
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To: x_plus_one

I see your point. We’ve watched lots of Brit TV. They have fire places, often more than one. Where Americans had pot bellied stoves, then the more modern wood burners and of course modern HVAC systems.

Point being, we tried a fire place once in a new home. Practically no heat unless we choked the chimney, then we had smoke in the house. We now have a modern wood burner, and the same amount of wood we wasted in a fireplace will literally roast us out.

Funny the Brits haven’t caught on.


39 posted on 04/08/2018 1:37:41 PM PDT by redfreedom
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To: Berlin_Freeper

“Install modern windows.”

So-called modern siding did a super job of warming up a Brit government apartment house some months back, as I seem to recall.


40 posted on 04/08/2018 1:38:35 PM PDT by beelzepug (The permanent political class that runs this country is...the great(est) danger we face)
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