At least 1,147 died from climate-driven heat in UK this summer, scientists find
The UK saw its hottest summer on record this year, with experts saying extreme heat incidents were made more likely and intense by human-induced global warming.
A study led by researchers at Imperial College London, released on Wednesday, used modelling, historical mortality records and peer-reviewed methods to provide early estimates of fatalities this summer.
The team found climate change, caused primarily by the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation, increased temperatures by an average of 2.2C, but by as much as 3.6C between June and August.
As one of the comments points out, this brand of 'science' has degenerated into clickbait.
We could ask what was on the 1,147 death certificates but we won't, white coat clickbait isn't worth it.
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Where to start with this nonsense?
Actually, better not to start at all - it only encourages them.
The guardian is in full alarm mode take:
Human-made global warming ‘caused two in three heat deaths in Europe this summer’.
The figure seems to have been arrived at by using computer modelling to extrapolate the number of excess deaths in European cities during hot weather and comparing the result with ‘a hypothetical world without any climate change’.
In other words, a method not too far removed from other forms of religious divination such as casting runes, observing bird flight or eviscerating sheep.
Peter - that's it, it's not even worth the effort of criticism. Clickbait is a good description of it.
Macheath - yes, it's not far removed from other forms of religious divination. Perhaps we could also say it is less sound because the conclusion probably came before the casting of the computer runes.
I thought that since no significant Global Warming had been measured for 30 years the term was now verboten. The preferred term now is Climate Change ( sound of big organ notes of doo-oom.) Now any random millisecond long peak temperature reading, a normal North European winter, flood, drought, landslide or, God forbid, a leaf shaking STORM can be attributed to November fifth festivities. We need more "funding".
Doonhamer - "Here's our menu of alarming studies you wish us to carry out. Prices have gone up but that's inflation, but of course inflation could also be caused by climate change if you wish."
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