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The number of people dying of exposure in Russia every years is quite a lot, and you can't call Russians not culturally adapted to cold.
by baybal2 5y ago
The number of people dying of exposure in Russia every years is quite a lot, and you can't call Russians not culturally adapted to cold.
- jahewson 5y agoFrom the article: > One study failed to find any excess cold-weather deaths in Siberians even at temperatures as low as -52C (-62F).
- nradov 5y agoThe Siberians who couldn't figure out how to survive cold weather were killed off by cold centuries ago. If climate change caused sudden cold snaps in normally warmer regions there would likely be many deaths.
- rich_sasha 5y agoI used to work with some Russian insurance companies. They had 0 faith in government population data, in particular mortality. At one point, in the 00’s, they were using late USSR data, which they thought was doctored too, but that was cancelled off by the improvement in health standards.
- marcosdumay 5y agoThe weather you have every day tends to not kill many people. It's surprises that are the real killer. What interestingly means that warming Siberia may increase the number of people dying due to the cold.
- Symmetry 5y agoThe combination of a high average alcohol consumption rate and cold temperatures in particular is dangerous.