Despite the climate narrative, almost everywhere cold temperatures are
much more deadly than heat. Why is the cold more dangerous? Because it
causes outer blood vessels to constrict to conserve core body heat,
which drives up blood pressure, said Bjorn Lomborg. High blood pressure
killed 10.8 million people in 2019 – 19% of total global deaths.
Dr. Bjorn Lomborg
is a researcher and frequent commentator in print and broadcast media.
He has also authored several books including ‘False Alarm: How Climate
Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the
Planet’. Last month he published an article in The Times which
challenged a Lancet report stating that rapidly rising temperatures have
increased annual global heat deaths among older people by 68% in less
than two decades. This is a figure that has been cited all over by
corporate media, from the BBC and Time to the Washington Post and the
Times of India as well as espoused by United Nations Secretary-General
António Guterres. “The [Lancet] report commits an amateur statistical
fallacy by blaming the increase in heat deaths on ‘rapidly increasing
temperature’,” Lomborg wrote.
In a Twitter thread, Lomborg
explained how the cold kills 9 times more than heat. “When billions of
people are exposed to colder than optimal temperatures for large parts
of the year, millions die,” he said. A study published in The Lancet in
July 2021 found that for the ten years 2000-2019, 4.6 million people
died from cold temperatures compared to 0.5 million from heat.
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