On a given morning the individual who happens to subscribe to a local newspaper likely may wake up over coffee greeted by a headline reading “Global Warming (or Climate Change, or Climate Crisis) Is Causing Increasing Deaths,” with latest estimates reaching into the multi-millions.Is this otherwise implausible statement credible? It may seem entirely plausible in the eyes of “the woke” segment of 21st Century US society.Recently the Heartland Institute’s Dr. H. Sterling Burnett examined a study … [Read more...]
Global Warming Reduces Human Death Rates
No contest on this one. Cold weather leads directly or indirectly to 17 times as many excess human deaths as hot weather. What's surprising is that even the New York Times reported this, and prominently. In the December 19, 2016, issue, Jane Brody wrote: Most of the Northern Hemisphere is now in the throes of the deadliest time of the year. Cold kills, and I don’t mean just extreme cold and crippling blizzards. I mean ordinary winter cold, like that typically experienced, chronically or … [Read more...]
