Sentences with phrase «deaths than heat»

Across Europe, there are six times more cold - related deaths than heat - related deaths... by 2050... Warmer temperatures will save 1.4 million lives each year.»

Meanwhile, it must not be forgotten that cold weather in winter causes many more deaths than heat in summer, even in most subtropical regions, and measures to control cold - related deaths need to continue.

Above these temperature bands, mortality increases, but below this band, mortality increases much faster: there are some factor 10 more cold related deaths than heat related deaths.

Not exact matches

Scott handed down the rule in the wake of a prolonged power outage at The Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills led to more than a dozen heat - related deaths after Hurricane Irma.

Since 1986, the first year the National Weather Service reported data on heat - related deaths, more people in the United States have died from heat (3,979) than from any other weather - related disaster — more than floods (2,599), tornadoes (2,116) or hurricanes (1,391).

India, in 2015, reported more than 2,500 heat - related deaths.

For their part, though, global warming skeptics such as atmospheric physicist Fred Singer maintain that cold weather snaps are responsible for more human deaths than warm temperatures and heat waves.

Last summer's record heat wave in Russia sparked forest fires that raged for months and ultimately caused more than 55,000 deaths.

It seems to me that there are far more cold - related deaths in the winter than heat - related deaths in the summer.

[Lior Yankelson et al, Life - Threatening Events During Endurance Sports: Is Heat Stroke More Prevalent Than Arrhythmic Death?]

In Chicago, for instance, annual heat - related deaths per six million people could rise from less than 200 that the city saw in the mid-1970s to almost 700 one generation from now.

That is more than seven times the total number of heat deaths.

Just in the past decade, Europe has lost about 15 million people to the cold, more than 400 times the iconic heat deaths from 2003.

«Remember that for humans, the biggest cause of death is cold in winter, far bigger than heat in summer.

In a 2008 presentation, Dunn stated «I assert that warm is good for human health and that global warming, even the most extreme estimates, will not create heat illness or death increases and certainly no changes that are more important than the basic public health measures of vector control, water, nutrition, sewage and water quality, and housing quality.»

Extreme heat events are responsible for more deaths annually than hurricanes, lightning, tornadoes, floods, and earthquakes combined.2

A map showing temperature anomalies during the 2003 European heat wave, which caused more than 72,200 deaths.

1 — Direct Cancer Cell Death: The principle of hyperthermia is that cancer cells are much more sensitive to and intolerant of the effects of excessive heat than normal cells.

Aston Martin had come to the only place on earth that offers a more reliable source of car - busting heat than Death Valley.

Engineers logged nearly 6 million miles of customer equivalent driving and experience on the vehicle, including trailer - towing tests in the Rocky Mountains, air conditioning validation in the summer heat of the Florida Keys, punishing drives through Death Valley at more than 120 degrees F. and a -43 degrees F. stint in Manitoba, Canada.

Even when the temperature is as low as 75 degrees Fahrenheit, the inside of a car can heat up to 120 degrees Fahrenheit in less than 20 minutes, resulting in death in less than an hour.

You are still more likely to die than survive, even if a heated death is often as entertaining as a kill.

A large rise in heat related deaths in Australia is mentioned without noting that most of the effect is due to population rather than climate change.

I've shown before that the typical European winter gets far more weather - attributed deaths than the extreme heat wave of 2003, so it only stands to reason that GW is saving far more lives in Europe than it is taking, right?

In his masterful book on that disaster, Eric Klinenberg described how two neighborhoods, similar in a host of ways, had profoundly different levels of heat deaths and related harms, with the difference being more about «block clubs» and church groups than emergency services.

But as I understand the IPCC claims, the postulated future GH warming is supposed to occur primarily at higher latitudes, rather than in the warmer regions today, so it appears to me that this would present a «win - win» situation: lower heating costs, fewer cold weather deaths, increased high latitide crop yields, etc. while presenting no new problems for the warmer regions.

Last winter more than 90 % of deaths were pensioners, who are among the least able to afford heat but the most vulnerable to cold - related diseases, such as seasonal flu, hypothermia, bronchitis and emphysema.

However... a recent article in The Lancet (http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2814%2962114-0/abstract) points out that globally there are 20X more deaths from extreme cold than there are from extreme heat.

The global warmers have made an arbitrary choice that they would rather have people freeze to death than die from heat exhaustion.

England's winter death rate this year is almost one - third higher than normal: nearly 29,000 deaths in a two - week period in January, largely because people can no longer afford to heat their homes properly, due to UK climate policies.

Increasingly sophisticated techniques and enhanced computational capacity allow a greater range of events — heatwaves, floods, drought, heat deaths, coral reef bleaching — to be analysed for a human fingerprint with ever greater levels of certainty than Allen's exploratory possibilities.

«Some reduction in the risk of death related to extreme cold is expected... the reduction in deaths as a result of relatively milder winters attributable to global warming will be substantially less than the increase in deaths due to summertime heat extremes.»

«While the US GCRP report is based on thousands of scientific publications, Lomborg cherry - picked only a few to support his case that 1) «cold kills many more people than heat» and 2) «climate change will reduce the number of cold days» and «that will cut the total number of cold - related deaths.»»

Lorin Symington: Smoke from burning biomass indoors for cooking and heating is responsible for more than 4 million deaths per year, and untold millions of cases of pneumonia, chronic respiratory conditions and cataracts.

More lives are saved by global warming via the amelioration of cold - related deaths than are lost due to excessive heat.

By the end of this century, much of the Southeast will experience more than 100 days above 90 °F, which in the absence of adaptive actions is expected to lead to more heat - stress - related illness and deaths, decreased agricultural production, and negative impacts on fish and wildlife.

Hmm, no mention of reductions in cold - related deaths, which typically are larger in a given year than heat - related deaths.

When someone pointed out the European heat wave had killed thousands, I cited the fact that in Britain alone, some 40,000 extra deaths occur in winter each year compared to the rest of the seasons... after that, the claims that hot was worse than cold dropped off precipitously.

Willis says: «When someone pointed out the European heat wave had killed thousands, I cited the fact that in Britain alone, some 40,000 extra deaths occur in winter each year compared to the rest of the seasons â $ ¦ after that, the claims that hot was worse than cold dropped off precipitously.

The dangerous effects of heat waves, including death, occur as a result of both temperature and humidity — especially if those conditions persist for more than two days.

At this rate of progress, the end of capitalism is further away than the heat death of the universe, which will render concerns about global warming irrelevant.

During extreme heat events, nighttime temperatures in the region's big cities are generally several degrees higher28 than surrounding regions, leading to increased heat - related death among those less able to recover from the heat of the day.36 Since the hottest days in the Northeast are often associated with high concentrations of ground - level ozone and other pollutants, 37 the combination of heat stress and poor air quality can pose a major health risk to vulnerable groups: young children, the elderly, and those with pre-existing health conditions including asthma.29 Vulnerability is further increased as key infrastructure, including electricity for potentially life - saving air conditioning, is more likely to fail precisely when it is most needed — when demand exceeds available supply.

And they add a warning: «Extreme heat is responsible for more deaths in the United States than any other weather - related event, and its frequency and intensity is expected to increase over this century.»

Experts say that the heat wave caused more than 1,000 deaths.

Studies performed in multiple countries have shown an increase in child morbidity and mortality during extreme heat events.26 Infants younger than 1 year27, 28 and high school athletes29, 30 seem to be at particularly increased risk of heat - related illness and death.

For example, I have posted before on cold causing more excess deaths than does heat.

The report on page 85 references Schwartz, using GFDL - CM3 climate models, to project 10,000 excess deaths by 2100, more deaths on net than die today from the heat, and note: «without any quantitative adjustment for potential future adaptation».

So this data tells us a few things: — More deaths from cold than heat, by two to one ratio.

The NYC Climate Justice Agenda bases their claim that extreme heat causes more deaths than cold based on an EPA reference.

Environmental advocates claim heat results in more deaths than any other weather - related event but I recently read a conflicting claim about weather - related deaths.