A study of Czech extreme weather fatalities show that the trend has been “significantly falling”. Most weather extreme fatalities were related to cold…less than 2% “heat related”!
German climate site Die kalte Sonne reports on on new study that looked at fatalities due to weather extremes in the European landlocked country of the Czech Republic.
Let’s recall how climate alarmists claim the number of fatalities due to extreme weather from global warming will rise rapidly and that mankind now even faces “an existential threat”. But it isn’t so, a new study finds.
In the newly released study appearing in the journal Natural Hazards Earth Systems Science authored by Rudolf Brázdil et al., the researchers made an analysis of fatalities attributable to weather conditions in the Czech Republic during the 2000–2019 period.
The analysis was performed for floods, windstorms, convective storms, rain, snow, glaze ice, frost, heat, and fog. For each of them, the associated fatalities were investigated in terms of annual frequencies, trends, annual variation, spatial distribution, cause, type, place, and time as well as the sex, age, and behavior of casualties.
More deaths in cold
The study found there were 1164 weather-related fatalities during the 2000–2019 study period, exhibiting a statistically significant falling trend. Those attributable to frost (31%) predominated, followed by glaze ice, rain, and snow.
Fatalities were at their maximum in January and December.
The minimum number happened in April and September. Fatalities arising out of vehicle accidents (48%) followed by freezing or hypothermia (30%). Most deaths occurred during the night., when it’s colder than in the daytime. Adults (65%) and males (72%) accounted for the majority of fatalities.
The study had another surprising result: cold weather deaths rose!
“According to the database of the Czech Statistical Office, deaths caused by exposure to excessive natural cold are markedly predominant among five selected groups of weather-related fatalities, and their numbers exhibit a statistically significant rise during 2000–2019,” the study’s authors found.
Only 20 fatalities (<2%) attributed to heat (heat waves)
The analysis also found:
Only 20 fatalities in the Czech Republic were attributed to heat (heat waves) during the 2000–2019 period, an average of 1 fatality a year. Nine such cases were recorded in 2006,…”
Only 2 heat deaths in the last decade. Shown above are the heat-related fatalities in the Czech Republic during the 2000–2019 period. Chart: Rudolf Brázdil et al. (2021).
To all the warming alarmists: Heat is not the problem, stupid.
You have just proven their point. Humans evolved for cold winters and hot summers, and now that winters have gotten so much warmer, the human body cannot evolve fast enough to keep up with the change, so winters are more deadly, because even though not yet as warm as summer, they are warmer than the body expects, and when the body follows its evolutionary rule to warm up the body, the end result is excess heat and a cooked and dead body.
People need to start accepting this truth.
“Humans evolved for cold winters ”
Where did that occur?
” winters have gotten so much warmer”
Where I lived, we missed that memo.
Poe’s Law, maybe?
I have never thought of myself as talented enough to fool Poe, so perhaps your meter needs calibration.
They calculate percentages in a total of 20 (twenty!!!) cases?????
I am reminded of when deaths are described as being ‘due to’ or ‘related to’ Covid compared with deaths ‘related to’ vaccines. Comparisons are difficult.
If someone high as a kite falls asleep on a park bench on a cold winter night on their way home from the pub, I suppose they’d still be alive if it were warmer. But they weren’t really killed by the cold but by their drug habit.
Similarly, if someone keels over in a heatwave and has a heart attack, maybe they’d have lived a little longer without the heat. But heat was only the proximal cause.
I assume both would appear on the death certificate as contributory causes but neither should be primary.
I don’t think temperature is ever a primary cause of death. It requires some sort of bad decision beforehand.
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The ignorant ‘AGW Climate Change’ activists in the UK says there will be an extra 2,500 deaths from heat by 2050.
Little do they understand that are about 60,000 people a year die of the cold in the UK; so if by 2050 the ‘extra heat’ warmed the winter months and so were to cause only 30,000 deaths from cold then that means an extra 27,500 will survive all temperature variations in 2050!
Global warming would be a population win in the UK!
Atmospheric CO2 does not drive the climate.
Humans do not control atmosphere CO2 levels!
Atmospheric CO2 is plant food nourishing the whole world.
And they accuse us of cherry picking.
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