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How Much Will It Cost to Prevent Deaths by Climate-Driven Heat?

7 points by fouc 5y ago

missedthecue 5y ago
How many deaths will be prevented because of milder winters?
- scrollaway 5y ago
  Hello from a country currently not dealing with the heat wave and having mild climate instead. We got floods. Worst ones in our country's history. Millions of euros in damages. Hundreds of deaths. It's a small country so this is a lot. Don't be daft please.
- sollewitt 5y ago
  Warmer doesn't imply milder. "Everything is hotter" = "there is more energy in the system", which is evident from the uptick in both the number of powerful storms and their intensity. Warmer air can hold more moisture which is leading to heavier downpours and bringing floods. Perturbation of atmospheric and oceanic streams is leading to strange pressure systems maintaining much colder weather for days in some places in unpredictable ways as we've seen on the east coast of the US the last few winters.
kumarvvr 5y ago
Preventing deaths is one thing. What about all the economic loss that comes from people unable to travel / work / leisure due to heat waves. This climate change is going to be the next big depression of our age.
- Proven 5y ago
  > This climate change is going to be the next big depression of our age. On the contrary. It is government policies against climate changes that are destroying prosperity. You won't be able to travel because climatist taxes and legislative policies will make your trip three times more expensive or simply prohibited.
Proven 5y ago
It won't cost anything if you don't want to spend anything. That's why "do nothing" is right: do (or don't) what you want according to your own needs and means. Most people are fine as-is. This nonsense article reminds me of the Ford Pinto complaints by busybodies like these guys: everyone has to be saved by over-designed cars even if that alone made all Pinto would-be buyers unable to own a car. "In order to prevent 0.00001% of population dying from heat, we had to increase unemployment by 5%." Some success.

7 points by fouc 5y ago

missedthecue 5y ago

How many deaths will be prevented because of milder winters?

scrollaway 5y ago
Hello from a country currently not dealing with the heat wave and having mild climate instead. We got floods. Worst ones in our country's history. Millions of euros in damages. Hundreds of deaths. It's a small country so this is a lot. Don't be daft please.
sollewitt 5y ago
Warmer doesn't imply milder. "Everything is hotter" = "there is more energy in the system", which is evident from the uptick in both the number of powerful storms and their intensity. Warmer air can hold more moisture which is leading to heavier downpours and bringing floods. Perturbation of atmospheric and oceanic streams is leading to strange pressure systems maintaining much colder weather for days in some places in unpredictable ways as we've seen on the east coast of the US the last few winters.

kumarvvr 5y ago

Preventing deaths is one thing. What about all the economic loss that comes from people unable to travel / work / leisure due to heat waves. This climate change is going to be the next big depression of our age.

Proven 5y ago
> This climate change is going to be the next big depression of our age. On the contrary. It is government policies against climate changes that are destroying prosperity. You won't be able to travel because climatist taxes and legislative policies will make your trip three times more expensive or simply prohibited.

Proven 5y ago

It won't cost anything if you don't want to spend anything. That's why "do nothing" is right: do (or don't) what you want according to your own needs and means. Most people are fine as-is. This nonsense article reminds me of the Ford Pinto complaints by busybodies like these guys: everyone has to be saved by over-designed cars even if that alone made all Pinto would-be buyers unable to own a car. "In order to prevent 0.00001% of population dying from heat, we had to increase unemployment by 5%." Some success.