The Texas Heat Deaths Scam
by Alex Epstein Sep 6, 2024
Media myth: Fossil fuels are making Texas, the capital of fossil fuels, more endangered by heat.
Truth: Fossil fuels have made Texas far safer than ever from climate, both from heat and the (far more dangerous) cold—but anti-fossil-fuel policies are stalling that progress. [emphasis, links added]
A recent Wall Street Journal article portrays Texas as threatened by fossil-fueled climate warming. But as evidence, they point to just 200 additional heat deaths, while ignoring the overall decline in climate deaths that fossil fuels helped cause.1
An objective account of climate danger and fossil fuels would look at what the general trend of climate danger is and what fossil fuels’ role is in that trend.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/the-texas-heat-deaths-scam/
