[Montfort]

I guess they are counting all the old folks that the French let die through bad economic and staffing policies as "victims of globla warming."

It is easy to see how they could reach 150K, but are those deaths really attributable to global warming or to negligence.

[Dan Evans]

It is easy to see how they could reach 150K, but are those deaths really attributable to global warming or to negligence?

The cause is a lack of air conditioning. John Daly did a little study comparing Paris, France to Phoenix, Arizona (which recently had 110 degree temperatures). There were no excess deaths in Phoenix because people there had air conditioned homes and cars (I wonder what the temperature was in a Paris city bus this summer).

So, really the cause is lack of money.