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Winter kills: 48,000 Brit deaths blamed on worst winter in 42 years
American Thinker ^ | 04/09/2018 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 04/09/2018 8:28:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

If only Michael Mann could “adjust” real temperatures the way he adjusted them on his infamous “hockey stick” graph that formed the key argument of Al Gore’s scaremongering hit movie, An Inconvenient Truth. But instead of “The end of snow” (New York Times, 2014), Britain has gotten hit with a long and very cold winter.

The tabloid Daily Star sensationalizes the cold snap with “studies” that come up with the figure of 48,000 “excess” deaths blamed in the cold snap. Quite frankly, one can concoct all sorts of studies to “prove” or “demonstrate” all sorts of dubious propositions. So, I am not really endorsing the number of fatalities from the cold that are claimed.

But the fun fact is that the warmist doomsayers are once again shown to be full of hot air.


 

If only Michael Mann could “adjust” real temperatures the way he adjusted them on his infamous “hockey stick” graph that formed the key argument of Al Gore’s scaremongering hit movie, An Inconvenient Truth. But instead of “The end of snow” (New York Times, 2014), Britain has gotten hit with a long and very cold winter.

The tabloid Daily Star sensationalizes the cold snap with “studies” that come up with the figure of 48,000 “excess” deaths blamed in the cold snap. Quite frankly, one can concoct all sorts of studies to “prove” or “demonstrate” all sorts of dubious propositions. So, I am not really endorsing the number of fatalities from the cold that are claimed.

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TOPICS: Society; Weather
KEYWORDS: britain; climatechange; deathtoll; globalwarming; uk; weather; winter
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To: SeekAndFind

If it’s not a European heatwave killing their geezers, it’s European cold spells. It’s just open season on geezers in the EU. The UK as a society takes cr@ppy care of its OAPs. And that’s not the fault if bloody “global warming”.


21 posted on 04/09/2018 10:14:58 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: Steve_Seattle

Remember the European heatwave back in 2003? That killed tens of thousands of people, mostly elderly. If most of the dead in this case are elderly, a death toll this high doesn’t surprise me.


22 posted on 04/09/2018 10:17:11 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: mewzilla
"Remember the European heatwave back in 2003? That killed tens of thousands of people, mostly elderly. If most of the dead in this case are elderly, a death toll this high doesn’t surprise me."

But a heat wave is different; unless you have air-conditioning, which I am sure many elderly don't have, you can't escape the heat. But unless we are talking about homeless people, the elderly would presumably live in heated buildings during a cold spell, so would be protected from the worst effects of the cold.
23 posted on 04/09/2018 10:24:38 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle

Oh, don’t get me started on the conditions in state-run facilities for the elderly there. Or on the cost of fuel for old folks on a shoestring budget. Nobody’s suggesting that there are human popsicles piling up, at least so far, but if exposure to temps colder than is healthy for people is causing increased numbers to fall ill and die, then I’d call it cold-related. Especially if most of the dead are elderly.

I DON’T blame the weather, however. I blame the families who are able to care for them and don’t, and society for failing the rest.


24 posted on 04/09/2018 10:34:33 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Socialism blaming its death toll on the seasons.


25 posted on 04/09/2018 10:56:38 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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26 posted on 04/09/2018 10:59:28 AM PDT by dfwgator
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27 posted on 04/09/2018 1:02:49 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The US Constitution ....... Invented by geniuses and God .... Administered by morons ......)
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To: SeekAndFind

48,000 killed by cold in England and 20,000 by heat in France.
Good thing thing I live in the United States.


28 posted on 04/09/2018 4:24:17 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: SeekAndFind

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Frozen to death by Global Warming!
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29 posted on 04/09/2018 4:25:30 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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30 posted on 04/09/2018 4:26:36 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: dfwgator

It’s more likely that the NHS is killing them, than the cold.


31 posted on 04/09/2018 6:41:40 PM PDT by Amberdawn (If Leftists Didn't Live By Double Standards, They'd Have No Standards At All.)
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To: mewzilla
The UK as a society takes cr@ppy care of its OAPs. And that’s not the fault if bloody “global warming”.

Of course it is the fault of AGW! If they weren't spending so much, both money & jobs, to "mitigate" Global Warming, they could afford to take better care of the OAPs.

32 posted on 04/09/2018 8:44:44 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!�)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
well, the logic, which is compelling, is that as climate changes, the gulf stream flow that brings warm water from the Gulf of Mexico, along the east coast of America to Western Europe (portugal, Spain, France, UK, Ireland, right up to the Baltics and to Murmansk), this Gulf Streatm gets disrupted, so there is no warming effect.

instead the UK feels the same cold as other areas at the same latitude (like Toronto, Chicago) feel.

33 posted on 04/10/2018 2:05:51 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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