According to weather reports on woke media outlets, we experienced two one-day “heatwaves” in September with temperatures “soaring” into the early 30s.
What a joke they’ve become!
No-one can seriously claim that one day of warm weather is a heatwave. In the past, the term ‘heatwave’ implied at least several days of hot weather.
These media outlets clearly want to parrot the fearmongering narrative of the global warming lobby headed by clowns like Climate Change & Energy Minister Chris Bowen and his leftie sidekick Matt Kean, Chairman of the Climate Change Authority.
The fact is, the perfectly normal cyclical increase in global temperature will be beneficial to us as long as it is properly managed.
One major benefit, for example, is that there will be far fewer deaths.
This scenario is currently playing out in a number of countries – especially in the northern hemisphere following their summer of higher-than-average temperatures.
The highly-respected CO2 Coalition in the USA recently reported that their nation’s National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, & Medicine is promoting its fifth annual Ramanathan Climate Conversation with the title “Extreme Heat and Health.”
It frames rising nighttime temperatures, humidity, and urban heat islands as an “escalating global challenge.”
The message is familiar: heat is an existential threat and emissions of greenhouse gases are the culprit.
However, it’s what the Academies omit to say that really matters.
One such omission is that cold kills far more people than heat.
Multi-country studies find cold-related mortality 10–20 times higher than deaths from heat. An analysis of 74 million deaths across 384 locations linked 7.3% of deaths to cold versus 0.42% to heat.
In Europe, cold is roughly 10 times more lethal and even up to 40 times more so in the north of the continent.
In the United States, cold still accounts for most temperature-related deaths even though heat dominates media attention.
Heat mortality has fallen as increased prosperity has enabled better adaptation.
U.S. heat-related death rates in major cities dropped 74% from the 1960s through to the 1990s despite warmer weather, thanks to air-conditioning, improved housing, warning systems, and public-health measures.
The Academies highlight a July 4 temperature of 39°C in Washington, D.C., that broke a 1919 record.
However, isolated daily records do not prove “unprecedented” danger. Historical heat waves, including the ‘Dust Bowl’ of the 1930s, produced far higher death rates (see chart below).
The Academies’ agenda includes brain health webinars and “heat protection” papers.
Missing is contextual material about winter mortality, the harmful effects of insufficient energy supplies, and the life-saving role of affordable, reliable power.
The Academies treat fossil fuels as a problem rather than a foundation for the economic advancement that has slashed weather-related deaths for a century.
The relative warmth of our modern era has also extended growing seasons and, combined with increases in atmospheric CO2, has driven higher crop yields and the greening of ecosystems around the globe.
As for temperature extremes, humanity has never been better equipped to handle heat or cold.
Yet despite all these positive facts, the National Academies and other doomsayers continue to flog the tired old narrative of climate Armageddon to the detriment of their own credibility.
In Australia, we can expect much of the same because it ties in nicely with the propaganda proclaimed by those with a vested financial and/or ideological interest in promoting the climate change fearmongering narrative.
There is a lot of money invested in dubious global warming countermeasures and therefore a lot to lose if the nonsense being peddled by charlatans in the climate change industry is ignored by sensible people, as is increasingly the case.
It’s clear that sensible people prefer commonsense solutions such as expanded use of air-conditioning, improved housing, and relevant public-health measures.
Thanks to CO2 Coalition (https://co2coalition.org), CartoonStock and Johannes Leak for his cartoon
