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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 pop
by 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 agoIf you downvoted me, then show your math. At least I put mine out there.