Jovial Monk wrote on Oct 29
th, 2025 at 1:05pm:
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Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals
Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year because of failure to tackle climate crisis
Rising global heat is now killing one person a minute around the world, a major report on the health impact of the climate crisis has revealed.
It says the world’s addiction to fossil fuels also causes toxic air pollution, wildfires and the spread of diseases such as dengue fever, and millions each year are dying owing to the failure to tackle global heating.
The report, the most comprehensive to date, says the damage to health will get worse with leaders such as Donald Trump ripping up climate policies and oil companies continuing to exploit new reserves.
Governments gave out $2.5bn a day in direct subsidies to fossil fuels companies in 2023, the researchers found, while people lost about the same amount because of high temperatures preventing them from working on farms and building sites.
Reduced coal burning has saved about 400 lives a day in the last decade, the report says, and renewable energy production is rising fast. But the experts say a healthy future is impossible if fossil fuels continue to be financed at current rates.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01919-1/abstr...https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/29/rising-heat-kills-one-person...Actually the study is paywalled. The text comes from The Guardian.
This is the limit of the Lancet article -
"Driven by human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, climate change is increasingly claiming lives and harming people's health worldwide. Mean annual temperatures exceeded 1·5°C above those of pre-industrial times for the first time in 2024. Despite ever more urgent calls to tackle climate change, greenhouse gas emissions rose to record levels that same year. Climate change is increasingly destabilising the planetary systems and environmental conditions on which human life depends."
What is carefully NOT said in the post is the reduced number of people dying from cold.
"Non-optimal temperatures are now considered among the leading risk factors of mortality worldwide.1 A global analysis showed that 9·4% of all deaths can be attributed to both cold and hot non-optimal temperatures, corresponding to about 5 million deaths.2 In most epidemiological studies, excess cold deaths far outnumber heat deaths. In that same global analysis, of the 9·4% attributable temperature-related deaths, 8·5% (range 6·2–10·5%) were cold-related and only 0·9% (range 0·6–1·4%) were heat-related,2 which corresponds to approximately 4·6 million deaths from cold and about 489 000 from heat, a ratio of roughly 9:1 of cold versus heat. This pattern is also consistent in regional studies.3–5 In this Comment we summarise why this pattern emerges and address what this implies for future temperatures and related mortality under climate change."
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"The bottom line, however, is not whether heat or cold is more dangerous, but how we can save the most lives, especially as the climate continues to change. Nowadays, given the current climate trends and limited success in climate mitigation, the current epidemiological literature strongly suggests that an urgent focus on heat-related deaths is well justified. "
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(25)00054-3/fullt...So ten time more deaths from cold. Sounds like a warming world win, to me.
BTW - 3 references to be from the world weather attribution group.
4 references to the Guardian. So much for peer-review.
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