BBC Ignore Cold-Related Deaths In India
APRIL 21, 2023
tags: excess deaths, heatwaves, india
By Paul Homewood
h/t Joe Public
I see the BBC are up to their usual tricks again:
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India saw a 55% rise in deaths due to extreme heat between 2000-2004 and 2017-2021, a recent study published in the medical journal, The Lancet, found. Exposure to heat also caused a loss of 167.2 billion potential labour hours among Indians in 2021, resulting in loss of incomes equivalent to about 5.4% of the country’s GDP.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-652998 To simply compare two 5-year periods is highly unscientific and meaningless statistically.
Nevertheless the Lancet study clearly shows that cold-related deaths vastly outnumber heat-related ones in Southern Asia:
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2023/04/21/bbc-ignore-cold-related-deaths-in-india/
