Posted on 01/13/2020 4:16:35 PM PST by Libloather
Hotter weather thanks to climate change could cause a spike in deaths related to injuriesincluding suicides, assaults, and drowningsaccording to a study. One expert described the problem to Newsweek as the looming "hidden public health burden" of global warming.
Deaths by suicides, assaults, transport accidents, drownings and falls were forecast to be on the up if temperatures rose on average by 1.5 and 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the authors of the paper published in the journal Nature Medicine found.
The researchers analyzed data on deaths and temperatures between 1980 to 2017 in mainland United States, excluding Alaska and Hawaii, to see if anything changed when the weather was 1.5 and 2 degrees Celsius higher than average. They chose these figures as the international Paris Agreement on the climate, which the U.S. has started the process of withdrawing from, aims to keep average post-industrial global temperatures well below 2 degrees Celsius, and preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
A spike of 1.5 degrees Celsius was linked to an annual estimated 1,601 additional deaths as a result of injuries across the country, while a rise of over at least 2 degrees Celsuis was linked to 2,135 extra deaths per year.
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Were safe then because we measure in Fahrenheit, not that Commie celcius BS.
In a country of 320,000,000? 0.0005%? Man, that has to be one accurate model.
That’s about the number of children killed by abortion in America in a 12-hour period.
If this is true, so what? We lose nearly 50,000 from car accidents, and 80,000 from heroin and fentanyl.
So whats the problem? The Left has always been for population control. Obama admits he wanted his grandma to take a pill and shut up. The old and weak dying fits their Darwinian agenda.
Average yearly temperatures can shift by a couple of degrees across a distance of less than 100 miles as you move away from the coast, or change altitude. I haven't noticed, for example, that going from Concord NH to Marblehead MA leads to a loss of life. And the annual temperature in Marblehead is 2 degrees C more than Concord NH.
A lot of these climate change predictions are ridiculous.
I’ll bet you more people die when it gets colder.
Longer growing season, more food, more obese, more death!! OH NO!!!!
Good, it will be city liberal idiots to go first. Us rural folks are ready and very much looking forward to it.
Oh come on, everyone knows that the difference in annual average temperature between Marblehead Massachusetts and Concord New Hampshire has created a total disaster of epic proportions. None of the plants, animals, or birds that live in New Hampshire can survive in Massachusetts.
On second thought maybe that is why there are so many misinformed liberals there...
Thats it? These idiots have murdered 40m+ million unborn babies and they want us to worry about 1,600?
CAFE standard kill way more than that.
Climate change alarmists probably note 1.5 temperature change in Celsius because it looks smaller than corresponding 2.7 change in degrees F. Correction welcome.
How is this possible? Didn’t we all die 20 years ago? And then we all died again 10 years ago? And, of course, the human race didn’t make it to 2020, right?
How can we speed things up a little? I might die of old age before I see the end of the world.
I would think these folks would support killing Americans.
That many will die from watching CNN
So how many will die by confiscating trillions of dollars from tax payers for this scam that won’t change the temp. one way or another?
I think that is .0005% of the population of the US.
Isn’t that what libs want? Less people:-)
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