Posted on by Californiacontrarian

“You’re Hot … You’re Getting Colder”

Who among us hasn’t played that children’s game where the phrases “You’re hot” or “you’re getting colder” are used?  Here these phrases provide clues as to whether or not the individual is getting closer to or further away from the hidden object. Obviously in this game “getting hotter” is a good thing, whereas “getting colder” is a bad thing.  In real life does this also hold true?

From the New York Post:

“Heat deaths are beguilingly click-worthy, and studies show that heat kills about 2,500 people every year in the United States and Canada. However, rising temperatures also reduce cold waves and cold deaths. 

Those deaths are rarely reported, because they don’t fit the current climate narrative. Of course, if they were just a curiosity, the indifference might be justified, but they are anything but. Each year, more than 100,000 people die from cold in the United States, and 13,000 in Canada — more than 40 cold deaths for every heat death.

The same pattern holds, including in countries not typically associated with frigid winters. In India, cold deaths outnumber heat deaths 7 to 1. Globally, 1.7 million people die of cold each year, dwarfing heat deaths (300,000).

For now, rising temperatures likely save lives. A landmark study in the medical journal Lancet found that climate change over the past decades has across every region averted more cold deaths than it has caused additional heat deaths. On average, it saves upwards of 100,000 lives each year.

For the United States: The share of hot days has increased since 1960 and affected a steadily larger population. Yet the numbers of heat deaths have halved over the same period — thanks to technology. The rest of the world needs access to the same simple technologies to drastically reduce heat deaths.

Tackling cold deaths turns out to be much harder, because it requires well-heated homes over weeks and months. Moreover, heavy-handed climate policies will increase heating costs and make cold deaths even more prevalent.”

From Paul Driessen on Townhall:

“Public Health England calculated  that one-tenth of all “excess winter deaths” in England and Wales are directly attributable to fuel poverty, and 21.5% of excess winter deaths are attributable to the coldest 25% of homes. 30,000 to 40,000 people died each year in England and Wales since 1990 who would not have perished if their homes hadn’t been so cold, researchers estimated.

(Adjusted for population, this is equivalent to 165,000 to 220,000 excess American winter deaths per year.)

In 2017, Germany endured172,000 localized blackouts; in 2019,350,000 German families had their electricity cut off because they couldn’t pay their power bills.

Coal, oil, natural gas, electricity and home heating costs have risen significantly since those studies were prepared, likely increasing the excess winter death toll markedly. In fact, 2021 European gas prices skyrocketed nearly 600%over 2020 prices, and Rotterdam coal futures soared from $60/ton in October 2020 to $265/ton in September 2021.”

So with winter coming, now under Joe Biden, the United States is already on a trajectory to Europe’s real climate crisis: unaffordable, unreliable energy. President Biden is committing all of us to energy policies that favor wind and solar over fossil fuels. These “green” policies beget “fuel poverty” that can make adequate heating impossible, causing numerous health problems and deaths. 

Poor, minority, elderly and fixed-income families are most severely and inequitably affected. For those, it could be a very painful and deadly winter. Again another instance where Democratic policies hurt those on the lower edges of the economic spectrum, the most!

www.californiacontrarian.com

11/10/21

118 Replies to ““You’re Hot … You’re Getting Colder””

  1. Great beat ! I wish to apprentice while you amend your
    site, how can i subscribe for a blog site? The account aided me a acceptable deal.
    I had been tiny bit acquainted of this your broadcast provided bright clear idea

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.