Hacker News Reader

Comment by sigmatropic | Hacker News Reader

I really don't see how this is important, the beirut explosion, the turkish earthquake, just those two things are objectively worse for humanity than climate change has been in the last 100 years.

heat doesn't kill as much as cold does

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S254251962...

In fact, excess deaths with additional carbon might lessen deaths overall for humans.

View on HN

In Europe. World-wide is a very different story.

Heat kills twice as many people as cold in the US, and the US is colder than average. Include Africa and India in your stats and you'll find heat deaths vastly outnumber cold deaths.

There are about 20,000 hypothermia--related deaths a year in Britain, about 25,000--in the USA, 8,000 deaths a year in Canada. There are suggestions that the unofficial number of hypothermia--related deaths is substantially higher, particularity in the elderly.

Some statistical approaches estimate that more than 1,300 deaths per year in the United States are due to extreme heat, compared with about 600 deaths per year in the “underlying and contributing causes” data set shown in Figure 1.

Now do India or Africa, which each contain 1/6th of the world's population.

Just a heads up for anyone thinking of replying, this is a just bait, no point in trying to use reason, it will be ineffective, you're just wasting your time replying.

Contrary to the NOAA, the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics Compressed Mortality Database, which is based on actual death certificates, indicates that roughly twice as many people die of cold in a given year than of heat.

imagine not knowing

Reply on news.ycombinator.com