Cold Deaths Far Outnumber Heat Deaths

As hydrocarbon use pulls billions out of grinding poverty, so fortunate humans can use the extra wealth to protect themselves against all the nature throws at life on Earth.;

Jack Dini ——Bio and Archives--April 28, 2026

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Headlines from around the world tell us of hundreds of deaths caused by heat waves. The stories invariably blame climate change and admonish us to tackle it urgently. But they mostly reveal how one-sided climate alarms reporting leaves us badly informed.

There’s a reason we’ve heard so much about extreme heat deaths over last summer. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres made a call to action on extreme heat that prompted mandarins across his vast organization to issue warning without letting the facts get in the way of a good story. Guterres added to his alarmism by pointing out that heat deaths of old people globally increased 85% over the past decades, but didn’t reveal that almost all of this increase was because the world now has 79 percent more old people, reports Bjorn Lomborg. (1)

There are many papers reporting that cold weather is much worse than heat. (2-6). Let’s look at some recent studies:

A global analysis showed that 9.4% of all deaths can be attributed to both cold and hot non-optimal temperatures, corresponding to........

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