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How many of them died due to heat? In a massice 2015 Lancet study of temperature related fatalities worldwide, they found 17 times more fatalities due to cold

• Schroedingersat 4y ago
  • thunky 4y ago
    Great insight. The article says "thousands", which makes it difficult to determine how many of the reported excess deaths were due to the heat.
    • Schroedingersat 4y ago
      It's not making any claim about any particular deaths having any particular cause. That's what excess deaths means.
      • Proven 4y ago
      • thunky 4y ago
        > It's not making any claim about any particular deaths having any particular cause. It is, and so are you. From TFA: led to thousands of heat-related deaths across Europe So asking how many thousands seems like a reasonable question.
        • Schroedingersat 4y ago
          Yes. There were thousands of directly heat related deaths. You're welcome to look up all the disparate sources rather than concern trolling. The article is about the 53,000 excess deaths which would imply there was either an undetected major disaster centered around the hotter regions of europe during a record heatwave, or that it's worth investigating what the causal links were. At no point is it reasonable to try gaslighting people into somehow thinking it was cold as an anti-eu and anti-science dog whistle.