Californians are poised to become sicker in a future marked by climate-fueled warming, but they may also be less likely to die from temperature-related events as extreme cold days become rarer, a new study has found.

Emergency room visits in California increased in a linear fashion as daily temperatures escalated over the course of a recent decade, from 2006 to 2017, according to the study, published on Wednesday in Science Advances. But neither hospital admissions or related-death exhibited the same unbending climb.

Although extreme heat and extreme cold alike cause more people to die, illness rates tend to increase as the weather becomes hotter, and they tend to be lower in colder conditions, the study authors explained.

In other words: Emergency visits are still........

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