{"id":335256,"date":"2024-06-30T11:08:08","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T09:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=335256"},"modified":"2024-06-30T11:08:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T09:08:11","slug":"hot-facts-about-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=335256","title":{"rendered":"Hot Facts about Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Follow-up Essay by Kip Hansen<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My recent essay titled \u201cWhy Do They Lie About Extreme Temperature Deaths?<\/a>\u201d highlighted the outright falsehoods being repeated in the mainstream media about the dangers of extreme temperatures, heat and cold, prompted and encouraged by the major Climate Crisis Propaganda cabals:  Covering Climate Now<\/em> and Inside Climate News<\/em>.  Of course, it is worse than that, in the United States, even federal governmental agencies, under the guise of informing the public, do the same. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For instance, the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA<\/em>, offers  series of Climate Change Indicators<\/a><\/em>.   Why the EPA has a huge section on climate change is a mystery to me, other than rank agenda-pushing, but there you have it: the massive governmental Enviro-Climatism Agenda<\/em> writ large. On the page \u201cClimate Change Indicators: Heat-Related Deaths<\/a>\u201d, the EPA informs us, in the Background section of the page: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHeat is the leading weather-related killer in the United States\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is simply a \u201ctalking point\u201d and is not true, not even according to EPA\u2019s own Climate Change Indicators.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We at WUWT (and the dozens of other kindred spirits in the blogosphere) are not alone in this fight against propaganda surrounding the Climate Change issue.  Allies are not restricted to those who normally cover climate, weather and related science news beats<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here I call your attention to a helpful and very well-written editorial at Issues & Insights, \u201cHeat Wave Sets Off New Round Of \u2018Climate Crisis\u2019 Lies<\/a>\u201d <\/em><\/strong>by the I & I Editorial Board<\/em><\/a> on June 19, 2024.  These folks are the professionals: \u201cIssues & Insights<\/strong> is run by seasoned journalists who were behind the Pulitzer Prize-winning IBD Editorials [Investor\u2019s Business Daily<\/a><\/em>] page (before it was summarily shut down).\u201d <\/em> It was brought to my attention via the \u201cWUWT Tips and Notes<\/a>\u201d page by John Merline<\/a>  at I&I (a sample of his past writing here<\/a>).  This editorial is well worth reading<\/strong> and has some very clear and useful graphics.  There is a companion piece written a few days later \u201cGoogle Doesn\u2019t Want You To Know The Truth About Heat Waves And \u2018Climate Change\u2019<\/a>\u201d, <\/em>which you should read as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their lede:  \u201cT<\/strong><\/em>here\u2019s a summer heat wave going on, which gives journalists the opportunity to fill up their stories with climate change boilerplate. It no longer matters whether any of it is true. Just the opposite, in fact. If you point out the truth, you\u2019re accused of being a denier.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The web page has a little note at the top:  \u201c<\/strong>Follow up: As we predicted, Google is blocking its ads from appearing on this page because, according to Google, it contains \u201cunreliable and harmful claims<\/a>.\u201d\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I&I<\/em> offer this graphic:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This shows annual Deaths per Million with data from the EPA\u2019s to Climate Change Indicator pages,\u00a0Heat-Related Deaths<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Cold-Related Deaths<\/a>.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[Aside:  There is a funny and on-going story about those two pages, which I will mention in the <\/em>Author\u2019s Comment<\/em> section following the essay.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EPA\u2019s data, derived from the CDC database<\/a> of death certificates, clearly shows that, in the United States, when counting data as entered into Death Certificates (see my essay on that here<\/a>), in the most recent years shown, that cold kills people at a rate of 5 to 6 per million every year, which heat kills at the rate of between 2 and 3 per million.  (In the \u201cfunny story\u201d bit, EPA has updated heat deaths to \u201calmost 5\u201d in 2022 but has neglected to update cold deaths since 2016.)  And, as is the case all over the intellectual map, EPA still insists that \u201c<\/em>Heat is the leading weather-related killer in the United States\u201d<\/em><\/strong> contrary to its own published data. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is oddly comforting to find that the Climate Realist viewpoint has allies in the business world, who are not cowed by the yammering propagandists and their enforcers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do you<\/strong> think this \u201cHeat Kills More\u201d talking point is based on?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I suspect that it is an agenda-serving comparison between Heat Related Deaths and deaths from tornadoes, hurricanes, flooding, lightening, cold, winter, wind and  \u2018rip currents\u2019<\/a> only according to<\/strong> the false NOAA NWS graphic<\/a> I have discussed so many times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The real data<\/strong> on relative Heat and Cold Related Deaths worldwide<\/em> are covered in \u201cWhy Do They Lie About Extreme Temperature Deaths?<\/a>\u201d which includes links to the definitive studies at the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Author\u2019s Comment:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funny bit:<\/strong>  As I was working on this, I was making my own, more complete version of the Heat\/Cold Death rates graphic from I&I (which I\u2019ll use in a second follow-up next week).  As I labored on, through the morning, checking back to the EPA Climate Indicator pages repeatedly to pick up details, EPA updated the Heat-Related Deaths page adding several more years of (up-trending, of course) data:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I have been communicating with the Climate Indicators team at EPA about this:  they up-dated the Heat-Related, but not the Cold-Related, Deaths page.  And yes, golly, it does suspiciously look like they have managed to change down-trending data into up-trending data. Not jumping to conclusions yet.  I\u2019ll let readers know when I have sorted it out with EPA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I appreciate John Merline at I&I<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>for looping us in on their \u201cclimate lies\u201d work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My recent essay titled \u201cWhy Do They Lie About Extreme Temperature Deaths?\u201d highlighted the outright falsehoods being repeated in the mainstream media about the dangers of extreme temperatures, heat and cold, prompted and encouraged by the major Climate Crisis Propaganda cabals: Covering Climate Now and Inside Climate News. 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