Cold Related Deaths 10 Times As High As Heat Deaths In Europe
July 14, 2023
By Paul Homewood
Yet another study finds that deaths from cold far outweigh those from heat:
Another Lancet study came to similar conclusions a couple of years ago:
https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2542-5196%2821%2900081-4
We are told that 62,000 died last year in Europe’s heatwave. In fact, according to the Lancet, there are three times as many heat-related deaths every year on average.
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Try “Heat deaths in Europe barely a tenth of those from cold.”
” Cold Related Deaths 10 Times As High As Heat Deaths In Europe ”
Isn’t it 20 times as high worldwide?
Curious. I read it as worldwide approx 10:1 And Europe 4:1.
@ Harry Passfield
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)62114-0/fulltext
Gasparrini
” More temperature-attributable deaths were caused by cold (7·29%, 7·02–7·49) than by heat (0·42%, 0·39–0·44). Extreme cold and hot temperatures were responsible for 0·86% (0·84–0·87) of total mortality. ”
To my shame, I haven’t read the full article (my attention span is dismal these days) so the statement above may be qualified further down.
Hi Nicky R. That’s the point I was supporting – with very rough ratios.
So what exactly is a “heat related” death? It is well known that alcoholics develop problems regulating body temperature. So if an alcoholic dies in warm weather was it the temperature that killed them or was it the alcohol? There are numerous issues at play, manipulating vague data comes to mind.
One January night in the seventies a local “Old Boy” didn’t take his seat in the snug where he used to sip his brown ale keeping warm on the pub’s heating. Slightly concerned myself and a couple of mates stopped by his flat to check he was okay. He had died with his room barely above freezing point being unable to afford the paraffin for his heater. There was no doubt of his cause of death but the certificate read “Natural Causes”. I never want to experience that sight again but it is looking progressivley more likely with the ridiculous policies being followed now.
A piece in the Daily Mail yesterday reported that the heat wave in southern Europe, Cerberus (yes they are naming them now), claimed its first life. A 44 year old road sign worker collapsed in the city of Lodi in Italy and died later. Sudden deaths happen all the time and it is more likely there was an underlying cause. Healthy people don’t die of getting too hot.
Meanwhile here in Britain a Sky News reporter advised that we will need to take steps to protect ourselves from these brutal temperatures. For example by putting shutters on the outside of our windows. Here in Cheshire my heating came on this morning!
Sudden deaths have increased enormously thanks to the Covid vax. Healthy and fit people are just dying suddenly, so is that a likely culprit for the Italian.
Where did the 62,000 heat wave deaths come from? It seems likely to be somewhat exaggerated. The original Lancet article found about 0.9% of just over five million deaths per annum in Europe – less than 50,000 per year between 2000 and 2019 and at least 8-fold more cold related deaths. The more recent article found only 20,000 heat deaths per year over the same time period and 10-fold more cold deaths but was confined to 854 urban areas.
Excess deaths in the UK, and probably most of Europe, have been pretty high for the past 2-2.5 years ever since the covid vaccines were rolled out on mass (obviously just a coincidence since they’re safe and effective). Last year during the few really hot days in the UK there were quite a lot of excess deaths. The MSM blamed these on the heat wave, although excess deaths on the hottest days were no higher than the average for spring-autumn. If the same false attribution is applied across Europe 62,000 seems a highly plausible figure.
And yet the “impartial BBC, news you can trust” does not ever mention them especially when they are promoting heat related deaths as a balance. You would almost think the BBC to be showing clear evidence of bias. Next question, no one ever does something for free. Who is distributing the brown envelopes and who are receiving them?
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Our research for England & Wales shows 12.4% more winter deaths than summer (heatwave) deaths. What a lot of nonsense these people get away with.
https://www.weather-research.com/articles/summer-vs-winter-related-deaths
@ Neil C, the link takes me to a weather-research com web page but it’s “frozen” with a small blank banner at the top of the page.
There is a fault on it, if you lick on the bottom right of the white box it opens out. The web people say it will be sorted later today.
But what matters here is the temperature sensitivity – how many extra both ways for a degree change in both directions.