White House ‘Fact Sheet’ Says Climate Change Could Kill 27,000 Americans In Summer of 2100

[rangerrebew]

White House ‘Fact Sheet’ Says Climate Change Could Kill 27,000 Americans In Summer of 2100

(CNSNews.com) – In a “fact sheet [1]” issued by the White House in conjunction with a climate change report made public last week, one of the impacts of increasing temperatures is the deaths of thousands of American people over the course of one summer.

“Extreme heat can be expected to cause an increase in the number of premature deaths, from thousands to tens of thousands, each summer, which will outpace projected decreases in deaths from extreme cold,” the fact sheet stated.

“One model projected an increase, from a 1990 baseline for more than 200 American cities, of more than an additional 11,000 deaths during the summer in 2030 and more than an additional 27,000 deaths during the summer in 2100,” the fact sheet said.

The summary of the climate change report [2], titled “The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment,” states that climate change is “a significant threat to the American people” and that the findings in the report “represent an improvement in scientific confidence in the link between climate change and a broad range of threats to public health.”
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[rangerrebew]

Forecasters can't reliably tell what is going to happen in the next 24 hours let along 84 years from now.  What a crock of dookey.   

[jmyrlefuller]

Does it also take into account the reduced number of deaths from severe cold weather events, such as blizzards?

[Wingnut]

I'm not saying it will happen but if it does nature always finds a way to cull the heard.

[rangerrebew]

Does it also take into account the reduced number of deaths from severe cold weather events, such as blizzards?

You forget blizzards are caused by global warming, too.

[rangerrebew]

I'm not saying it will happen but if it does nature always finds a way to cull the heard.

True but I don't think we have progressed far enough scientifically to predict the year it will happen.

[andy58-in-nh]

Yet another non-scientific "study" based on selective data interpreted and projected by faulty computer models in a transparent effort to goal-seek in favor of the Church of Warmism and Wealth Transfers.

[rangerrebew]

Yet another non-scientific "study" based on selective data interpreted and projected by faulty computer models in a transparent effort to goal-seek in favor of the Church of Warmism and Wealth Transfers.

I'm not very smart so I had to study your reply a bit but I think it means you think these scientists are about as smart as a pound of wet leather and on the government dole to see things in a certain way.

[andy58-in-nh]

I'm not very smart so I had to study your reply a bit but I think it means you think these scientists are about as smart as a pound of wet leather and on the government dole to see things in a certain way.

Oh they're smart, all right: not in that science-y, egghead genius kind of way, but in that superciliously clever manner which implies that they expect to surreptitiously lighten your wallet and fatten theirs without you ever figuring out how the hell they did it.

[Bigun]

Yet another non-scientific "study" based on selective data interpreted and projected by faulty computer models in a transparent effort to goal-seek in favor of the Church of Warmism and Wealth Transfers.

Exactly!  Not worth a bucket of warm spit!

[andy58-in-nh]

Exactly!  Not worth a bucket of warm spit!

Hey, did you know that spit has warmed by 0.01° C this century? OMG! the oceans are rising, we're all gonna drown!!!! Arrrrrghhhhh!!!