What sets this work apart from similar studies is that its model accounts for humans’ evolutionary superpower: adaptation. Of the millions of species on planet Earth, only one of them can turn on the air conditioner.
“If you have any friends who live in Seattle or the Bay Area, they don’t really have air conditioning right now, but they’re all going to,” Greenstone said. “The idea that they were just going to sit there every year, wait for the temperature to come and cause misery and destruction, and not do anything about it, violates everything we understand about human behavior.”
Many studies that project future temperature deaths do not account for adaptation — not because they don’t believe humans will adapt, but because adaptation is hard to quantify. Those studies are likely to overestimate the number of temperature-linked deaths because the people in them act more like coral reefs than humans.
Kristie Ebi, an epidemiologist at the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the University of Washington who was not involved in the research, has spent a lot of time thinking about questions like that. “All heat related deaths are preventable, and so we should be preventing every death we can from the heat,” Ebi told me. “There’s lots of mechanisms to do so.”
When Seattle endured a record-breaking heat wave last summer, the county’s Regional Homeless Authority
It's the cold not hot that kills more people.
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“As long as I get rich.” —green grifter scam artists
Environmental 'gurus' and 'green' freaks started saying in 1978 that 'Oil will certainly run out by 1989-1990'... 🤡
Al Gore told me the North Pole would be ice free in 2015, also my kids would not see or know snow. What happened
We live in an ice age named Quaternary Glaciation starting 2.5 million years ago. Current temp & CO2 level is much lower than before it started. The least thing you need to worry about is the air is too warm in a dead cold winter.
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Have one of these models ever been correct?
Carbon based beings fooled into believing carbon is bad. Carbon is good, greener planet and more food. Cold kills millions more than heat, fact.
the answer is no, not complicated the massive effects of climate change are far more wide reaching than minimum and maximum temperature extremes