Record Levels of Heat-Related Deaths in 2023 Due To Climate Crisis, Report Finds (theguardian.com) 34
Heat-related deaths, food insecurity and the spread of infectious diseases caused by the climate crisis have reached record levels, according to a landmark report. The Guardian: The Lancet Countdown's ninth report on health and the climate breakdown reveals that people across the world face unprecedented threats to their health from the rapidly changing climate. "This year's stocktake of the imminent health threats of climate inaction reveals the most concerning findings yet," warned Dr Marina Romanello, executive director of the Lancet Countdown at University College London.
"Once again, last year broke climate change records with extreme heatwaves, deadly weather events, and devastating wildfires affecting people around the world. No individual or economy on the planet is immune [to] the health threats of climate change. The relentless expansion of fossil fuels and record-breaking greenhouse gas emissions compounds these dangerous health impacts, and is threatening to reverse the limited progress made so far and put a healthy future further out of reach."
The report finds that in 2023, extreme drought lasting at least one month affected 48% of the global land area, while people had to cope with an unprecedented 50 more days of health-threatening temperatures than would have been expected without the climate crisis. As a result, 151 million more people faced moderate or severe food insecurity, risking malnutrition and other harm to their health.
"Once again, last year broke climate change records with extreme heatwaves, deadly weather events, and devastating wildfires affecting people around the world. No individual or economy on the planet is immune [to] the health threats of climate change. The relentless expansion of fossil fuels and record-breaking greenhouse gas emissions compounds these dangerous health impacts, and is threatening to reverse the limited progress made so far and put a healthy future further out of reach."
The report finds that in 2023, extreme drought lasting at least one month affected 48% of the global land area, while people had to cope with an unprecedented 50 more days of health-threatening temperatures than would have been expected without the climate crisis. As a result, 151 million more people faced moderate or severe food insecurity, risking malnutrition and other harm to their health.
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Found the MAGA.
Re:"study finds" ... "climate crisis" (Score:5, Informative)
Please tell me you're trolling, and not proof of Idiocracy.
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Just because you don't understand it, don't assume other people d
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It's very easy to find out who studied this stuff and where their funding comes from. It's on the website.
https://lancetcountdown.org/wh... [lancetcountdown.org]
It's is funded by the Lancet and the Wellcome Trust. The individuals who wrote it will be funded by their individual institutions. There is a list of these as well.
Lie of omission (Score:1)
For those unaware, this is one of the biggest benefits of global warming. We currently have about ten cold related deaths for every heat related death.
And cold related deaths seem to be going down at about the same ten to one ratio as heat related ones go up.
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We should try to reduce both.
Ground-source heat pumps can store the excess heat in the summer and use it to warm buildings in the winter.
Heat pumps reduce carbon emissions, especially if powered by renewables, and work better as the climate warms.
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This is a "let them eat cake" moment. You're offering extremely expensive technological solution to a problem of those who are generally the poorest.
Because heat and cold related deaths are overwhelmingly poverty related deaths. Those who can afford decent homes even without heat pumps form a tiny minority among heat and cold related deaths. Most of them are the ones that can't afford those.
P.S. Coldest days are days when snow has covered the panels, and high pressure front has moved in allowing heat to rad
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You got both math and location wrong. First, it would be "so what if ten Europeans die to save one African". Second, it's not Africans who are dying cold related deaths, but people in temperate and cool temperate regions, i.e. places like North East Asia, Eastern Europe, and US.
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This is a "let them eat cake" moment.
Change in heat death rate by wealth [ourworldindata.org]
Oh look Finland, Norway, Iceland, Sweden and Canada will have the most decrease in deaths.
And look at all the poor countries that will have more heat related deaths. I guess it's a sacrifice you're willing to make.
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For those unaware heat will kill a lot more people than cold did. And the heating has hardly even become noticeable yet.
Luckyo is pretending cold is safer because he is only counting the direct deaths of freezing or heatstroke. But heating will change the climate in ways that will cause many more natural disasters such as floods, fires, hurricanes etc. He doesn't want you to include those, even though the heat will make them worse.
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Evidence says the opposite. So does evolution, as our species has evolved for a much warmer climate. We are a tropical animal, that got utterly brutalized by the currently receding Ice Age.
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Evidence says the opposite.
Show your work.
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Is the reduction in cold related deaths due to climate change or better insulation, heating, and clothing?
It doesn't really matter, because even if what you claim were true, the fact is that people who find the place they live in becoming uninhabitable are going to migrate, and we all know how much conservatives like you love migration.
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This is the other great myth of religious zealots of this movement. That planet is getting "uninhabitable".
Reality is of course the exact opposite. Planet is more inhabitable than it ever was. Because we're recovering from an ice age. Chlorophyll based life is basis for all life on this planet except for a handful of micro-organisms in volcanoes and such. And that life prefers 1200-1500ppm atmospheric CO2. It's in starvation mode right now, as our planet is recovering from record low CO2 planetary state of
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Straw man. The issue is not that the planet is going to die out or some nonsense like that, it's that the areas where people currently live are becoming too hot for *human* habitation.
The fact that people are already dying of climate change and migrating because of it is undeniable. Actually that's not true, the far right is denying it and claiming it's some sort of Marxist conspiracy theory to replace them with brown people.
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Moving goal posts (oh no, caught in a lie about planet being uninhabitable), and claiming that self-inflicted problems such as people having been allowed to cross borders in ways never seen before in human history enabled by far left pseudo-NGOs (that are mainly government funded in way or another through bureaucratic subversion) are actually about planet becoming more livable.
Overwhelming majority of areas were people live are significantly MORE livable today than they were ten years ago. Which in turn wer
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Never seen before in human history? The rules they are crossing under were created after WW2 because of how refugees had been abused and even used as weapons before and during that conflict.
Heat vs Cold (Score:2)
Consequences of economics? (Score:1)
Whatever. (Score:2)
The camps are divided. Nobody's listening.
I think that to graduate high school you should need to select a position that you subscribe to. Then you should have to research and author a paper on five arguments why the contrary position may be true.
In the end the climate will do what it will, irrespective of the opinions of one species inhabiting it.
Fossil fuels corporations (Score:2)
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That would be because governments like to save lives of their citizens, unlike green zealots who are openly for mass genocide with ideologies like "degrowth" and "depopulation" and central claims being "humans are the cancer on the planet" and "humans are raping the earth" and so on.
Reality check: there are roughly ten cold related deaths for each heat related death. Also:
>severe weather deaths & damage, food shortages & raised prices from crop failures, sickness from contaminated water & soi
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