Posted on 11/26/2013 1:54:02 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
The cold claims more lives in Britain than in Sweden, where temperatures regularly plunge as low as -30C (-22F) in winter, campaigners say.
There were 25,535 ‘excess winter deaths’ – people who died as a direct result of the cold – in Britain in 2011-12, compared with 3,385 in Sweden, it was claimed.
Taking into account Britain’s higher population, EWDs accounted for 4.61 per cent of all fatalities in this country, compared with 3.76 per cent in Sweden, according to fuel poverty campaign group the Energy Bill Revolution.
Britain was labelled the ‘cold man of Europe’ by the group, which blamed its findings on ‘appallingly’ insulated homes.
(Excerpt) Read more at metro.co.uk ...
“There were 25,535 ‘excess winter deaths’ – people who died as a direct result of the cold – in Britain in 2011-12, compared with 3,385 in Sweden, it was claimed.”
Why, it’s simple, there needs to be laws!
More global warming, I suppose? Sweden is more prosperous than Britain. People die of cold weather because they cannot afford to heat their homes, often because the homes are inadequately insulated.
Poverty has and always will kill more people than pollution, nuclear power and dozens of other bogeymen of the left.
Having been in both nations...I can safely say Sweden has fewer cold deaths because they are in better shape...fewer fatties. Swedes also participate in winter sports.
Or perhaps a lot of RECENT Britons just aren’t adapted for the cold. Being used to desert sands and all.
If you look into the report and others like it you’ll see the Brits have rather cold living quarters in the winter and many of the deaths are the elderly.
I blame eco-nazis and the removal of cheap coal from the Britishh energy market. Coal is plentiful and people had been heating their homes with it for hundreds of years. In the last 30 years it’s been replaced with more expensive electricity and many people haven’t had the finances to retrofit their homes with insulation to compensate against the more expensive heating costs. The result is they are now cold and sick in the winter, with many elderly dying.
Now we always get 3 weeks of minus 60F weather every January, talk about feeling like Sam McGee? Most Whites are more prudent to extreme conditions, they have seen it before. Some Indians 50 years removed from the stoneage and introduced to the negative effects of alcohol; don't do so well.
I bet the comparison is the same with Swedes (who are accustomed to more extreme temps) and the Brits (who sure enjoy their alcohol and are not as accustomed to extremely cold temps. NO joke, I bet that has something to do with it.
The Brits do like their drink, but it’s more the stiff upper lip than the stiff shot of whiskey that does them in.
Few are very long distances from civilization, but their housing stock is very uneven and the elderly were raised in a time of rationing, deprivation and pride unlike the current culture.
Huh? One would think fat would provide insulation.
I do believe that population gets too much government support for such a fate.
Yes, electric heat is brutally expensive and often not even centralized over there.
Don’t worry about global warming-global cooling will kill you first.
That doesn’t stop buildings from being poorly insulated, or people not KNOWING how to deal with the cold.
Heck, I’m still learning tricks. . . like putting bubble-wrap on inside panes is MUCH more effective than shrink-wrapping windows for the winter. . .
You posted of Indians....... I onder how many were paki’s.
It isn’t very cold in Islamabad
Possibly, but Brits have always kept their homes much cooler in winter than Americans. You lounge around the house in two sweaters instead of a T-shirt. This is not necessarily harmful to the health.
While energy prices play a part in this, by far the most important factor in the contrast with Scandinavia is the quantity and quality of insulation. There is still an great deal of older housing stock in Britain built when energy was cheap and insulation virtually non-existent. Although insulation standards for new housing are now much higher, and older houses can be and are improved by retrofitting insulation, there is still a wide gap between this and the norm in Norway etc, where triple-glazing and a foot of cavity insulation are common. I’m a frequent winter visitor to Norway, and however many times I go I’m always astonished by the contrast.
Looking out your windows and all you see is Bigfoot-always blurry.
..up to a point. Actually, a somewhat cool home is probably healthier than one heated to 78 F in winter. But when ice forms on the inside of windows, it is unhealthfully cold.
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