Wall Street Journal Get the Facts About Temperature Related Deaths Straight
By
H. Sterling Burnett -
September 16, 2021 0
A Google Search of the term “climate change” today turns up a Wall Street Journal story which reports the good news that the recent modest warming of the earth has resulted in fewer deaths related to extreme temperatures.
In the Wall Street Journal story, titled “Climate Change Saves More Lives Than You’d Think,” the author Bjorn Lomborg notes data proves premature mortality tied to extreme temperatures has fallen dramatically as a result of climate change. Lomborg says:
In their call for “emergency action” on climate change last week, editors of the world’s leading medical journals relied in large part on a misleading claim that heat deaths are rising rapidly. … [T]he editors’ statistic is deceptive. They say global heat deaths have gone up by 54 percent among old people in the past 20 years, but they fail to mention that the number of old people has risen by almost as much. Demographics drove most of the rise, not climate change.
https://climaterealism.com/2021/09/wall-street-journal-get-the-facts-about-temperature-related-deaths-straight/
