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In the mean time.....in Countries with good data......the United States, which has seen increasing hot days since 1960 affecting a much greater population.Yet, the number of heat deaths has more than halved.
Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the US Temperature-Mortality Relationship over the Twentieth Century
......, the mortality impact of days with mean temperature exceeding 80°F declined by 75 percent...
CDC data shows more people die from excessive cold than heat. Moreover, deaths from cold aren't decreasing as one would expect given the fearful rhetoric about heat we often hear.
37% and rising. Climate change isn't just an abstract scientific concept, it's starting to kill people. The giveaway that it is manmade climate change is that the increasing rate of heat death is occurring independently across all continents, in parallel with the increasing rate of extreme weather events all across the globe.
Climate change deniers, by spreading disinformation, are complicit in a small way in these deaths.
I'm a true believer in the scientific method. Putting forth a hypothesis, testing it with data, and then admitting it is wrong is a part of science. First we believed the Sun and planets orbited the Earth. Then accurate measurements were taken and that theory didn't work. Copernicus proved it wrong and said the Earth orbits the Sun. Science accepted the new theory while conservative church elders ridiculed him for his preposterous ideas. Sound familiar?
If the climate deniers can publish a body of evidence disproving man-caused climate change and have a majority of scientists accept their claims, then I will happily change sides.
You lose what little credibility you have when you use the dumb phrase "climate deniers."
If I say so? I didn't write the journal article. Oh, and you're not going to get published in Nature unless it passes muster for academic integrity and proper scientific analysis.
Carbon tax. If every good sold in the U.S. included a carbon tax based on how it's transported, Chinese goods would have a high carbon tax because container ships consume huge amounts of the dirtiest diesel oil there is. Domestically made goods that are transported short distances, especially by electric or hybrid trucks, would pay very little carbon tax by comparison.
A transportation carbon tax would encourage more domestic production and discourage the importation of Chinese-made goods while reducing CO2. Which is what conservatives want, isn't it?
In another word, you want some kind of tariff tax masquerading behind carbon tax on Chinese goods.
You could have voted for Trump instead of Beijing Biden
Yeah... no. Heat waves( and polar vortexes) have been around since time began. Now shutitng off electric during a heat wave or shutting down oil pipelines during a deep freeze, THAT'S man made killing. Which you embrace if you're on the left.
37% and rising. Climate change isn't just an abstract scientific concept, it's starting to kill people. The giveaway that it is manmade climate change is that the increasing rate of heat death is occurring independently across all continents, in parallel with the increasing rate of extreme weather events all across the globe.
Climate change deniers, by spreading disinformation, are complicit in a small way in these deaths.
• In terms of the long history of the Earth we are actually still in an overarching ice age period - known as the Quaternary glaciation - which has been going for the last 2.6 million years. At the moment, the Earth is just in a slightly warmer period, an interglacial.
• There have been at least four other overarching ice ages in the Earth's history, the oldest started about 2,400 million years ago.
• The Little Ice Age was a climatic period, lasting from about 1300 to 1750, when worldwide temperatures cooled slightly, leading to extreme weather that, in turn, affected the colonizing ventures of Europeans in America.
The Earth is still warming from that Ice Age
The Earth cooled 0.1 degree, about the same as it has warmed since then.
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