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There was a european heat wave in 2003 that killed thousands a day and 70,000 total[1]. If 70K people in the US died from a single large climate change induced

There was a european heat wave in 2003 that killed thousands a day and 70,000 total[1]. If 70K people in the US died from a single large climate change induced event change, people might start to talk. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_European_heat_wave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_European_heat_wave

MR4D 8y ago
The heat wave lasted 25 days (using the above poster's dates). That's a run rate of almost exactly 1 million additional deaths per year. Given the European population of 741 million, and an 80 year average life span, then they were able to attribute an additional 0.001686909582% of deaths to climate change. That's roughly two out of one thousand signal to noise ratio. [0] According to one study medical examiners disagreed on cause of death in 12% (TWELVE PERCENT!!!) of cases. [1 & 2] Either my math is bad (definitely possible), or I'm calling bullshit on the numbers. [0] - my calculation was as follows: 70,000 deaths / 25 days * 365 days per year / 741,000,000 people in Europe / 80 year life expectancy * 100.00% [1] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29091542 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29091542 [2] - https://www.thename.org/assets/2018Handouts/2.3%20-%20McGivern%2C%20Lauri.pdf https://www.thename.org/assets/2018Handouts/2.3%20-%20McGive...
- MR4D 8y ago
  If you downvoted me, then show your math. At least I put mine out there.
black-tea 8y ago
Do you think the US is more likely to care than Europe does?