A World Health Organization panel calls climate change a global health emergency but forgets to adjust its data for age
By Bjorn Lomborg. Excerpts:
"Heat mortality risk rises sharply with age, and Europe has aged dramatically. Since 1990, the share of Europeans over 70 has increased by 78%. Aging alone explains virtually all the observed increase in heat deaths."
"Any honest analysis of mortality in a rapidly aging society uses age-standardized death rates"
"Europe’s standardized heat-death risk has changed only marginally since 1990"
"the increase amounts to fewer than 850 additional heat deaths"
"Age-standardized data shows that cold death rates in Europe have declined by nearly 50% since 1990"
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