Welcome to the next round of climate change alarmism and hysteria! What a morbid attempt! May we call this junk science!
The AAAS is so shocking in its constant propaganda and demagoguery!
This research is only based on California and visits to emergency rooms! This is laughable! What about other reasons for visiting ERs? Does not also this daily climate propaganda and demagoguery cause more ER visits by vulnerable individuals?
Don't you love it that these demagogues employ doom and gloom forecasts up to 2050 or even 2100 to scare us!
At least this research confirmed that so called Global Warming reduces cold-related deaths.
"Recent efforts by the Trump administration to repeal the landmark “endangerment finding”—the conclusion that greenhouse gases pose a threat to health—have drawn pushback from climate scientists and public health professionals alike. That’s because a growing body of research has already linked deaths around the world to human-induced warming [???]. Now, new research also quantifies the effects of climate change on our overall health and disease rate, called morbidity, not just its death toll.
Temperature-driven mortalities are just “the pointy tip of iceberg,”[???] lead author Carlos Gould told ScienceAdviser, noting that they are the most severe but least common outcome of temperature on the body. “We wanted to get a better picture of the whole iceberg so we can see the full health price tag of climate change.”
While deaths are fairly well documented, morbidity is trickier to quantify. ...
So, the researchers tracked all three—mortality, emergency room visits, and hospitalizations—in California, along with high-resolution temperature data, from 2006 to 2017. They found that while mortality and hospitalization rates peaked during both colder and hotter days, emergency room visits increased linearly with temperature. ...
That might be because, in addition to the usual culprits like fluid loss, electrolyte imbalance, and cardiac stress, people tend to go outside and do riskier things on warmer days, the authors suggest. They also estimated that between now and the year 2050, there would be 1.5 million cumulative extra emergency room visits in California due to rising temperatures. ..."
From the abstract:
"Increased temperature-related mortality is expected to significantly contribute to future economic damages from climate change, with declines in cold-related deaths outweighed by increases in heat-related deaths.
While temperature-mortality relationships are well-documented, the effects of climate change on morbidity are less understood.
Using data on emergency department (ED) visits, hospital admissions, mortality, and daily temperatures across California from 2006 to 2017, we find distinct differences in the temperature-response functions of these health outcomes, influenced by age distribution and underlying causes of morbidity and mortality. These differential responses fundamentally shape the burden of future climate change: We project that while future warming will increase ED visits, mortality will decrease due to fewer cold extremes. These results underscore the need to quantify temperature-morbidity responses to fully understand and anticipate the health impacts of climate change and suggest that local declines in mortality due to warming can mask economically meaningful increases in temperature-driven morbidity and health care utilization."
Fig. 7. Projections of changes in temperature-related ED visits, hospital admissions, and mortality, 2020–2100.
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