Cardiac Arrest: Extreme Cold Is Over Four Times More Deadly Than Extreme Heat But Global Warming Is A 'Big Problem' Supposedly
What? This is the conclusion of a study recently published in the prestigious journal ‘Circulation’. The gaslighting is off the scale. They really do think we are this stupid. Medical News Today reports on the study as follows:
A multinational analysis of more than 32 million deaths from cardiovascular disease found that more people died on days with extreme temperatures— both hot and cold.
For every 1,000 cardiovascular deaths, 2.2 excess deaths were associated with extreme hot days, and 9.1 were associated with extreme cold days.
The researchers now want to see guidelines developed to help mitigate the impact of extreme temperatures.
You don’t have to be Einstein to conclude that you are far more likely to experience heart problems during very cold weather than you are during very hot weather. But undaunted by the facts, the article then goes on to say:
The planet is enduring more frequent intense heat waves due to climate change, which is mostly caused by humans burning fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and gas. The last eight years have been the hottest on human record, according to the World Meteorological Organization.
Although, perhaps realising how utterly moronic this sounds, they then weakly offer up the following excuse:
Some research studies indicate that climate change may also be linked to severe winter weather, like that experienced in Texas in February of 2021.
Ah yes, that old chestnut: ‘global warming cause extreme cold weather’. File under ‘pseudoscience/BS’.
But if we look at the latest United Nations IPCC AR6 climate change oracle which has a special section dedicated to temperature extremes, this is what we find:
The AR6 report concludes that it is virtually certain that “the frequency and intensity of hot extremes (including heatwaves) have increased and those of cold extremes have decreased on the global scale from 1950”.
The frequency and intensity of extreme cold days is decreasing because the planet has been warming; that does at least make sense and it is confirmed by the observations. There is no doubt whatsoever that, in the UK, for example, winters have become milder since the mid twentieth century - a pattern that is generally repeated across the northern mid-latitudes. The report confirms the observational evidence for a decrease in extreme cold, more especially in northern mid-latitudes - where lots of people particularly susceptible to heart disease just happen to live:
In contrast, “a decrease in the number of cold spell days is also observed over nearly all land surface areas, and in the northern mid-latitudes in particular”, the report says. In addition, nearly all land regions have seen “statistically significant decreases” in cold nights.
The good news on the declining trend in extreme winter days gets even better however:
The global rate of increase in annual hottest temperatures is similar to that of average land warming, the report says, which is “about 45% higher than global warming”. Increases in the annual coldest temperature is “even higher, with about 3C of warming since 1960”, the report adds.
Extreme cold days are diminishing at a rate in excess of the increase in extreme hot days. By roughly how much? Well, since the mid twentieth century cooling, the globe has warmed about 0.8C. Add on 45% to get the increase in extreme heat and you get about 1.2C, just under. The IPCC claims the coldest days have warmed 3C, so the warming of the coldest days is outpacing the warming of the hottest days by two and a half times. In other words, climate change is eliminating the risk of heart attacks from cold days 2.5 times faster than it is contributing to the risk of heart attacks from extreme hot days, on top which you are 4.1 times less likely to suffer heart problems as a result of extreme heat than extreme heat cold. Given these facts, to then claim that climate change presents a serious risk re. heart attacks is clearly a lie, propaganda, disinformation.
The article concludes with unashamed political advocacy from the authors, masquerading as ‘science’:
Cardiologists and public health officials now need to look at the risk climate change poses to cardiovascular health, Dr. Alahmad stressed.
“We need to be on top of emerging environmental exposures. In this rapidly changing climate and [at an unprecedented] pace of warming, it is not the time to be asleep at the driving wheel.”
— Dr. Alahmad
It’s past time to set alarm bells ringing, agreed Dr. Gulati.
“If we do not reverse the course urgently, the impact on human health, particularly heart health, will be dire,” she told MNT.
Shoveling climate change is hard work!
Nice breakdown of the information. Imagine being the scientists working on that study and being told that you have to take the fact that climate change is decreasing the chances of climate related deaths, but you have to somehow conclude the opposite.