{"id":254339,"date":"2023-04-23T16:24:09","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T14:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=254339"},"modified":"2023-04-23T16:24:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-23T14:24:20","slug":"bbc-ignore-cold-related-deaths-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=254339","title":{"rendered":"BBC Ignore Cold-Related Deaths In India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

h\/t Joe Public<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I see the BBC are up to their usual tricks again:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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India saw a <\/strong><\/em>55% rise in deaths due to extreme heat<\/em><\/a> between 2000-2004 and 2017-2021, a recent study published in the medical journal, The Lancet, found. Exposure to heat also caused a loss of 167.2 billion potential labour hours among Indians in 2021, resulting in loss of incomes equivalent to about 5.4% of the country\u2019s GDP.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-india-652998<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To simply compare two 5-year periods is highly unscientific and meaningless statistically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nevertheless the Lancet study clearly shows that cold-related deaths vastly outnumber heat-related ones in Southern Asia:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Lancet paper also links to a study by Gasparrini et al, which specifically covers India. The latter includes this table:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Table 2. Deaths (in thousands) attributable to hot and cold ambient temperatures in India in 2015.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosmedicine\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pmed.1002619<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So cold-related deaths outnumber heat ones by about 7 to 1. Yet nowhere in the BBC article is there are any recognition of this. Neither do they ask the question of what the Indian government is doing to protect its people from cold weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The final paragraphs of the BBC report are therefore doubly ironic:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But clearly, Indians are still not taking heat seriously enough.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to reports, the place in Navi Mumbai where the government ceremony had taken place had recorded a maximum temperature of 38C (100F) on Sunday. Yet, photos of the event showed thousands sitting directly under the sun with no roof or covering to offer shelter. Only a few carried umbrellas, or wrapped towels on their heads.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I live in Delhi where the temperature can touch 50C and I see very few people even bring out their umbrellas,” Mr Pillai says.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without wishing to underplay the health risks of hot weather, particularly amongst the vulnerable, it is plain that most healthy Indians are not averse to a bit of sunshine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So cold-related deaths outnumber heat ones by about 7 to 1. Yet nowhere in the BBC article is there are any recognition of this. Neither do they ask the question of what the Indian government is doing to protect its people from cold weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":254348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818389,691818932,691818933],"class_list":{"0":"post-254339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-cold-related-death","10":"tag-hot-and-cold","12":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0Cold_Wave_Delhi_India_frostbite_cold_deaths_winter_how_to_stay_safe.webp?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-14af","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":264964,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=264964","url_meta":{"origin":254339,"position":0},"title":"BBC Ignore Cold Weather\u00a0Deaths","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"02\/07\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The extreme heat caused deaths and hospitalisations in some countries, melted roads and affected other infrastructure.","rel":"","context":"In \"BBC\"","block_context":{"text":"BBC","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=bbc"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/00fake-news-stamp-1.png?fit=1200%2C923&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/00fake-news-stamp-1.png?fit=1200%2C923&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/00fake-news-stamp-1.png?fit=1200%2C923&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/00fake-news-stamp-1.png?fit=1200%2C923&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/00fake-news-stamp-1.png?fit=1200%2C923&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":281596,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=281596","url_meta":{"origin":254339,"position":1},"title":"No climate signal in heatwave deaths","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"03\/10\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Moderate cold kills 20 times more people than warm weather From Net Zero Watch From Dr David Whitehouse, Science Editor Judging by the news reports about the latest release of deaths due to excess heat and cold by the\u00a0Office of National Statistics\u00a0(ONS) you could be forgiven in thinking that the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Climate change\"","block_context":{"text":"Climate change","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=climate-change"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/0Screenshot-2023-10-03-110730.png?fit=1178%2C489&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/0Screenshot-2023-10-03-110730.png?fit=1178%2C489&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/0Screenshot-2023-10-03-110730.png?fit=1178%2C489&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/0Screenshot-2023-10-03-110730.png?fit=1178%2C489&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/0Screenshot-2023-10-03-110730.png?fit=1178%2C489&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":261580,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=261580","url_meta":{"origin":254339,"position":2},"title":"The Summer\u2019s Gonna Get\u00a0You","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"11\/06\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Given how much bullshit has already been expended fertilizing this alarm, you\u2019d think that I would be good and ready by now to hand in my sceptical weaponry as part of the deniers\u2019 amnesty that surely must be just around the corner. 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