[palmer]

She's wrong of course. Here's one simple reason why:

There's up to 20% higher mortality when there's a bad strain of flu. Otherwise just 10% higher mortality in winter.

[monkeyshine]

She’s wrong in so many ways. Another example, California has always had problems with forest fires. The Los Angeles basin has been known to trap pollutants due to its topography going back to the 1500’s; and among the indigenous tribes they called it the “valley of the smoke”. It has an onshore breeze but hills about 11 miles inland so it keeps the pollution trapped most of the year. In the 1970s, when this doctor-to-be’s parents probably hadn’t even yet met each other, they used to tell us breathing L.A. air was like smoking 2 packs a day - but they also told us to fear the next ice age! Now they’ve flipped it on us.

[libstripper]

There’s up to 20% higher mortality when there’s a bad strain of flu. Otherwise just 10% higher mortality in winter.
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That higher mortality in Winter mostly comes from the cold, diseases associated with it, and excessive exertion doing things like shoveling snow. Indeed, escaping all that cold and misery is why so may elderly Snow Birds flee the north and go south. Looks like “global warming” might not be such a bad thing after all.