James Doogue

- Cold Is More Deadly Than Heat

- For Most Of The Last 10 Million Years Our Climate Has Been Warmer

- Humans Became Dominant Because Of Our Ability To Adapt To Colder And More Variable Climate

Humans prefer warmer climates. We survived climate fluctuations both cooler and warmer than it is today because we had the brain capacity to adapt to constantly changing climatic conditions.

The idea that we can somehow ensure our climate will remain stable, if only we stopped burning fossil fuels is ludicrous.

Over the last 10 million years our climate has been on average warmer than it is today. But our climate has become cooler and much more variable, particularly over the last 3 million years. This is well depicted by the first graph below, from the Smithsonian paper, 'Climate Effects on Human Evolution'. https://humanorigins.si.edu/research/climate-and-human-evolution/climate-effects-human-evolution

Dr. Rick Potts of the Smithsonian’s Human Origins Program - Natural selection was not always a matter of ‘survival of the fittest’ but also survival of those most adaptable to changing surroundings.

Natural climate change presented challenges to our ancestors, and it was only those who could learn to adapt, who survived.

The fact that humans prefer warmer weather is easily demonstrated by the next two charts below.

You wouldn't know this if your only source of information is the Lefty mainstream media or biased school and university curricular.

A March 2023 study in Lancet by Masselot studying anomalous deaths attributable to cold and hot days in 854 cities in Europe found the same phenomenon as Gasparinni's 2015 worldwide study.

For the study period cold produced 203 thousand excess deaths and hot produced 20 thousand excess deaths.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196%2823%2900023-2/fulltext

The journal "Lancet” published the chart which attempted to downplay the number of cold related deaths. You can see in the image below there are two charts purporting to show the same information. Lancet published the chart on left with unequal Y-Axis to downplay the fact that cold causes 10 times more deaths than heat in Europe. Professor Björn Lomborg corrected this with a chart on the right using the same scale for both heat and cold related deaths.

Lancet has acted disgracefully for a supposedly scientific journal. But it's par for the course with anything related to climate facts.

Because of the accepted 'climate narrative' the public, and sadly even academics and journalists, believe that we need to fear the slightly increasing global average temperature since the Little Ice Age which roughly coincided with the start of industrialisation. In otherwords since a low point in average global temperatures.

As our average global temperatures edge closer to the temperatures experienced during the Mediaeval Warm Period and other Climate Optima, we are told we must fear rising temperatures. Despite the historical fact that these warm periods coincided with great advancement in human civilisation. Meanwhile the Little Ice Age which is thought to have seen European populations decline by one third due to disease and starvation, is rarely mentioned.

There's an abundance of evidence that cold causes far more deaths than hot around the world. Above, I referred to a Lancet study for Europe. A similar study looking at the entire globe showed that it is true wherever you go.

In most places, the temperature is more often too cold than too hot, which helps explain why more than 90 percent of temperature-related deaths were from cold, according to the Lancet study. On every continent, cold deaths surpassed heat deaths.

There's more cold death than heat death everywhere.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(21)00081-4/fulltext

It's a forlorn hope that eventually the academic hucksters and our climate journalists might start exposing the public to the truth. We are not heading towards a climate catastrophe, man made or otherwise.

Instead of making ourselves poorer by closing cheap and reliable fossil fuels power plants and transport systems, we should be spending money on climate adaptation for fluctuations in temperature either way.

After all, it is our ability to adapt, which has made humans the dominant species on earth. It was the foresight of leaders centuries ago which protected European coastal cities with sea walls and man made harbours and lined major rivers flowing through their cities with man made rock walls and levees to minimise flooding and erosion.

We should abandon all the money wasted on achieving net zero CO2 emissions, and instead focus our energy and wealth on climate adaptation because we do not, and cannot control the climate.
May be an image of text that says 'Time: millions of years ago Homo 25 Australopithecus Ardipithecus Paranthropus Warm 5180 Increased climate fluctuation, environmental uncertainty Cold 5.5 Oxygen isotope curve (6180) for the past 10 million years (data from Zachos et al., 2001)'May be an image of text that says 'Agegroup 45-65 10x more Cold Deaths than Heat Deaths in Europe On the left, how it is presented, on the right with equal axes Age group 65-75 75-85 65-75 75-85 rate 2023 paper: "Excess mortality attributed to heat and cold: health impact assessment study 854 cities in Europe" based on 2000-19 w2 Figure left, Figure with equal axes rates of deaths (red) cold death (blue) on right. twitter.com/bjornlomborg'May be an image of text that says 'Lancet: More Cold Death Than Heat Death Everywhere 2,000,000 jerr 1,500,000 Daaa 1,000,000 500,000 Cold death Heat death Europe Africa Asia Northern Latin America America Annual dead from heat and cold across world 2000-19 Latin America includes the Carribean. Sources: "Global, regional, and national burden of mortality associated with non-optimal ambient temperatures from 2000 to 2019" Lancet July 2021

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