Mortality

Cold temperatures kill far more people, and impose far more human misery, than hot temperatures. Mortality statistics in the United States and throughout the world show far more people die during the cold winter months than during the hot summer months. Also, mortality data show colder-than-ideal temperatures kill nearly 20 times more people globally than warmer-than-ideal temperatures – amounting to 4 million people each year dying from colder-than-ideal temperatures.

Relax, Wisconsin Public Radio, Climate Change Isn’t Making Human Health Worse

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A story run by Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR) today claims climate change poses a threat to human health. Disease and mortality data show this is false. During the recent period of modest warming, deaths...

Sorry, Google, Global Warming Is Saving Workers, Not Killing Them

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At the top of Google News search results today for “climate change,” Google is promoting a slate of media articles hyping a paper by the activist Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) claiming that global...

Media Misrepresents Study Showing Cold Related Deaths Outnumber Heat Related Deaths Ten-to-One

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A news release sent to media yesterday via the science press channel known as Eurekalert has been getting coverage, but not for the right reason. Eurekalert’s release, titled “5 million deaths a year caused...

Sorry, New York Times and Nature Climate Change, Climate Change Likely To Result in...

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Recently, there have been a number of media stories claiming modest global warming has caused more than a third of heat related death around the world between 1991 and 2018. These stories all reference a...

Climate Related Deaths Are 99% Lower Than 1920

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It's no secret that the media overhypes climate change. This leads some to believe that more and more people are dying of climate related deaths every year. This is simply not the case. In...

After 100 years of climate change, ‘climate related deaths’ approach zero

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New data shows the global climate-related death risk has dropped by over 99% since 1920. Despite the near constant caterwauling from climate alarmists that we are in a "climate emergency", real-world data, released at the...

No, Climate Change Is Not Causing More Ice Drownings

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The New York Times, Google News, and other corporate media outlets are scaring people with articles today claiming global warming is causing more winter ice drownings. The articles reference a newly published study claiming...

NY Times Debunked: Climate Change NOT Tied to Pregnancy Risks

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The New York Times published a sensationalist article this morning claiming a new study shows climate change is causing premature, underweight, and stillborn babies. Google News posted the Times article, titled “Climate Change Tied...

No, Google, Climate Change Is Not Killing Americans, It Is Saving Them

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At the top of Google News searches this morning for “climate change” is an article titled, “Climate Change Is Killing Americans. Health Departments Aren’t Equipped to Respond.” The article, published by Columbia Journalism Investigations...

Media Champions College Staffers Urging Fake ‘Climate’ Death Certificates

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Five college employees in Australia published a letter in the medical journal Lancet demanding medical doctors list climate factors like heat more often as a person’s cause of death. The authors observed that death...