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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
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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”.
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posted on
04/09/2018 10:14:58 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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.
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posted on
04/09/2018 10:17:11 AM PDT
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mewzilla
(Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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.
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.
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posted on
04/09/2018 10:34:33 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
To: SeekAndFind
Socialism blaming its death toll on the seasons.
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posted on
04/09/2018 10:56:38 AM PDT
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SpaceBar
To: SpaceBar
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posted on
04/09/2018 10:59:28 AM PDT
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dfwgator
To: SeekAndFind; 100American; 11B40; A Balrog of Morgoth; A message; ACelt; Aeronaut; AFPhys; AlexW; ...
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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 ......)
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.
To: SeekAndFind
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Frozen to death by Global Warming!
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posted on
04/09/2018 4:25:30 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: Grampa Dave
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You’re in the groove!!!!
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posted on
04/09/2018 4:26:36 PM PDT
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editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: dfwgator
It’s more likely that the NHS is killing them, than the cold.
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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.)
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.
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posted on
04/09/2018 8:44:44 PM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
(Love me, love my guns!�)
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.
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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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