Thursday, July 21, 2011

Don't worry about summer, winter's the killer season. - By Kim Iskyan - Slate Magazine
Demographically speaking, cold is actually a far bigger killer than heat. In the Northern Hemisphere, the Grim Reaper makes more house calls in December, January, and February, while—this year's statistically anomalous summertime mortality excepted—he tends to take time off during July, August, and September (naturally, this is reversed in the Southern Hemisphere). One study calculated that in the United Kingdom in the 1990s, more than 80,000 people died of cold-related causes per year—or more than 100 times the figure for heat-related deaths.
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One of the few silver linings of the seasonality of mortality is the impact of global warming on wintertime deaths. One study suggests that an increase in temperature of roughly 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit by the middle of this century would boost total heat-related deaths in the United Kingdom more than threefold, to just under 3,000, but the number of cold-related deaths would drop by 25 percent, or 20,000, to 60,000. In the meantime, keep that coat zipped.
Weird Goings On At CSU | Real Science
The room where Fred Singer spoke at at CSU was not set up so that Fred could present any data. Sounds very suspicious to me.
Global warming on course to melt record amount of Arctic ice in 2011, scientists warn | Mail Online
A warm spell gripping the region has melted 46,000 square miles of ice EACH DAY so far in July
AMSR-E sea ice extent
07,18,2011,7174219 07,19,2011,7109688 07,20,2011,7079531
Over the last two days, extent went down 94,688 square kilometers, which is only 36,559 square miles, which is only about 18300 square miles per day, *much* slower than 46,000 square miles per day.

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