Bjorn Lomborg eviscerates a bad stats propaganda piece masquerading as a scientific ‘study’ in the Lancet. The FakeNews BBC uncritically regurgitates the story:
Based on a pathetically wrong study which is timed just right for great coverage.
The study specifically excludes any adaptation and assumes a laughably small number of cold deaths. Both dramatically push up damages and push down benefits.
Excluding adaptation leads to dramatic exaggeration of impacts. The study assumes that *no one* will make any adjustments over the next 83 years to accommodate higher temperatures, like cooler buildings, more greenery, more light surfaces and more air conditioning. Even the commentators on the paper are forced to point out that this is unrealistic: “People are known to adapt and become less vulnerable than previously to extreme weather conditions because of advances in medical technology, air conditioning, and thermal insulation in houses.”
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
Aug 06, 2017 @ 18:13:51
why would you have deaths by the cold?
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Aug 06, 2017 @ 22:25:00
Climate related deaths?
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Aug 07, 2017 @ 10:37:40
cuts both ways in terms of climate change. Overall it is getting warmer but you have periods of great cold however surely death by cold is related to homelessness. That has nothing to do with climate change at all
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