http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/weather/news/2003-09-25-france-heat_x.htm
Well there is this 2003 report on 14,000 heat wave deaths in France. Odd, though that 12,000 or so of those deaths were elderly patients in France’s state-run nursing homes. Shows that Man Caused Catastrophic Global Warming can really have an impact on your bottom line.
“Well there is this 2003 report on 14,000 heat wave deaths in France. Odd, though that 12,000 or so of those deaths were elderly patients in France’s state-run nursing homes. Shows that Man Caused Catastrophic Global Warming can really have an impact on your bottom line.”
Large segments of French society go on vacation, at the same time every summer.
Apartments in France’s major cities are notoriously NOT air conditioned.
While man and dad and the kids escaped to the countryside, where shade, escape from the urban-island heat effects, and country breezes can compensate for warmer temps, but gran mama and gran papa were either left in the city home or resident in an unairconditioned nursing home, while hospitals, clinics and emergency rooms operated with summer staffs.
It was not the heat per se that cost so many lives that summer in France, in particular, as it was the pareticulars of French society and life style that did not make sufficient use of technologically available and operationally prudent adjustments for the hot spell.
My whole point is that humans are more than capable of dealing with extreme hot or cold, when given the opportunity and the will to do so, and also that it has been proven time and again that it is economically and energy-use more efficient for humans to adjust for hotter temperatures than colder.
Were that not the case, history - past and current, would not coninually find human settlement always more dominant and always more successful where it is warmer as opposed to colder.