Cold weather kills 20 times more people than hot weather

 Source:

https://electroverse.net/cold-kills-20-times-more-people-than-heat/

" ... The study — published in the British journal The Lancet — analyzed data on more than 74 million deaths in 13 countries between 1985 and 2012.

Of those, 5.4 million deaths were related to cold, while *only* 311,000 were related to heat.

Because the study included countries under different socio-economic backgrounds and with varying climates, it was representative of temperature-related deaths worldwide, explained its lead author Antonio Gasparrini of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

The sharp distinction between heat- and cold-related deaths is because low temperatures cause more problems for the body’s cardiovascular and respiratory systems, reads the study’s abstract.

“Public-health policies focus almost exclusively on minimizing the health consequences of heat waves,” Gasparrini said.

“Our findings suggest that these measures need to be refocused and extended to take account of a whole range of effects associated with temperature.”

This report backs up multiple studies in recent years, including a 2014 U.S. paper from the National Center for Health Statistics, which found that cold kills more than twice as many Americans as heat.

It also supports a 2020 study which looked at hospital visits in Illinois between 2011 and 2018, and found that “the crude annual inpatient admission incidence rate was more than four-fold higher for cold injuries compared to heat injuries (10.2 vs 2.4 per 100,000 people),”

... patients who died because of cold temperatures were responsible for 94% of temperature-related deaths.

These three independent studies contradict the official data from the warm-mongering National Weather Service, which claims hot weather to be the biggest killer (surprise-surprise) followed by tornadoes, hurricanes and floods.

According to the service, cold is only the eighth-leading cause of death.

The discrepancy is likely because
1) the weather service is keen to push an agenda, and

2) that its data isn’t anywhere near as thorough, as it focuses more on the weather than the actual number of deaths caused by it.

“The NWS’ fatality and injury information is derived from a database where the primary function is to collect weather reports and any details associated with an event’s impact,” Brent MacAloney, NWS Storm Data Program Manager said.

“The fatality and injury information is only supplementary,” he admitted.

In other words, “we obfuscate the data in order to support the AGW theory.”

Following his study, Gasparrini received a grant from the UK to expand his studies and project what this could mean over the next century due to ‘catastrophic global heating,’

and while I was concerned that a slew of bogus headlines would soon follow –you know the type of truth-bending tripe they print:

“Experts warn heat-related deaths set to soar as global temperatures increase” etc. etc.– it actual turned out Gasparrini had something of a backbone —

his subsequent study refused to *fully* jump aboard the AGW gravy train, and instead concluded that “evidence on this direct impact at a global scale is limited.”