Saturday, November 14, 2020

AAAS: Heat is killing more people than ever. Scientists are looking for ways to lower the risk

More alarmism and scaremongering disseminated by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)! This is so appalling! This is not advancement of science this is cheap medieval fearmongering by members of the elite!

What does AAAS use for this scaremongering? The usual trick: Unreliable, pretentious, phony forecasts until 2100! Or arbitrary historical statistics without context and comparison! Shameful!

"... The work has taken on urgency as global temperatures rise, heat waves become more frequent and intense, and casualties mount. Between 1999 and 2010, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention logged 8081 heat-related deaths in the United States, one-third of them in people age 65 or older. ...
By 2100, heat exposure will threaten the health of an estimated 4 billion people, according to an International Labour Organization report. The report forecasts that the world’s productive working hours will decline 2.2% because of increasing heat, resulting in $2.4 trillion in economic losses, concentrated in Southern Asia and Western Africa. “There are inequities in who is exposed to heat,” Spector says."

Heat is killing more people than ever. Scientists are looking for ways to lower the risk | Science | AAAS

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