Heat waves deadly and more frequent bc climate But we're badly informed when not told: 1) solution over next decades: air-con, cheap energy, more heat-resilient cities 2) ~10x more temperature death from cold Again, solution cheap energy for heating https://lnkd.in/devJ6n92
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No surprise.
Cold deaths will be treated in winter. Now its summer and we have to care for the heat deaths. Politics is a season business
Regardless the truthfulness of the numbers or not. Heat death has mainly one root cause ... overheating. Cold death has many root causes: * Alcohol & drugs * No shelter * Poverty It not the price of energy, but the price of non-compassion that in the end kills
https://news.asu.edu/content/excess-heat-air-conditioners-causes-higher-nighttime-temperatures Absolutely wrong to believe airconditioners will save use ..... Studies are already 20 years ago done showing Heat Island Effects near Aircondition units Similar amount to cool down your house will be wasted by heating up your neighbourhood ,till All have to switch On their Airconditioning in Night time..... Absolutely stupid to suggest this as the Holy Grail -but thats nothing new with Pinocchio's Graphs and really Zero knowledge about this Industry Its heartbreaking to watch .....
Your numbers seem "interesting", I think you lump in all respiratory sickness, which have little to nothing to do with the cold. Try these numbers instead: https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/figures/number-of-fatalities-due-to
So we need more heat?
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1yhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/07/22/your-air-conditioner-is-making-the-heat-wave-worse/ With prosperity (and summer temperatures) increasing through the 1990s, builders and home buyers could have gone back to investing in warm-weather architectural features, but instead they opted to spend their money on more floor space. By 2006, the average new house had three times the square footage per occupant as it had in 1950, increasing from about 290 square feet per family member to nearly 900 square feet each. Cooling demand soared accordingly: Between 1993 and 2005, when the increase in house size was reaching its zenith, total consumption of electricity for residential air conditioning nearly doubled, from 134 billion kilowatt-hours to 261 billion, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration surveys. The Energy Department says air conditioners use about 5 percent of all the electricity produced in the country each year, costing homeowners more than $11 billion.