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 injuries—including suicides, assaults, and drownings—according 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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They’ve cried wolf - “12 years til the end of the world” - for decades.
U.N. predicts disaster (by 2000) if global warming not checked - June 29 1989, Peter Spielman
https://www.apnews.com/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0
UNITED NATIONS (AP) _ A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.
Yeah, but the dirty little secret is that 10 times that many would die with a COOLING of 1.5 deg Centigrade. Climate is always changing, with or without mankind on the planet, be happy it is headed in the correct direction!
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