AP Touts Study That Projects Millions Of European Heat Deaths Using Debunked Model, Shaky Stats
by Anthony Watts Jan 31, 2025
A recent article by the Associated Press (AP) “Study projects millions of European heat deaths as world warms” was carried by dozens of media outlets. [emphasis, links added]
The story is false, because the study relied entirely on a climate model known to be flawed by science, combined with some scary statistical projections to make the results appear life threatening.
AP’s Seth Borenstein writes:
Extreme temperatures — mostly heat — are projected to kill as many as 2.3 million people in Europe by the end of the century unless countries get better at reducing carbon pollution and adapting to hotter conditions, a new study says.
Currently, cold temperatures kill more people in Europe than heat by large margins. But a team from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine used climate simulations of different scenarios and looked at death rates in 854 cities. They found as it warms cold deaths lessen slowly, but heat deaths soar rapidly.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/ap-touts-study-that-projects-millions-of-european-heat-deaths-using-debunked-model-shaky-stats/
