I believe I provided a figure someone had come up
with which correlated the number of additional deaths to be expected for a one degree drop in
avg winter
temps, and it stands to reason one could easily reverse that and determine how many lives were saved annually thanks to warmer
temps.
To claim that the global
avg temp might as well have decreased 0.7 degrees as increased 0.7 degrees since preindustrial times flies in the face of basic physics, namely that the planetary temperature is governed (a.o.) by the planetary energy balance, and that this balance has substantially changed over the past 100 or so years due in large part to anthropogenic climate forcings,
with a bit of help from natural climate forcings.