© Burkart et al 2021, Lancet
Almost 20 times more deaths were attributed to cold than to heat in South Africa.
Almost 20 times more deaths were attributed to cold than to heat in South Africa.
A new publication in the renowned journal Lancet, by Burkart et al studied 65 million deaths in 9 countries occurring between Jan 1, 1980, and Dec 31, 2016 in relation to temperature effects.
The researchers found that 17 of the 176 categories for the cause of death "showed J-shaped relationships with daily temperature, whereas the risk of external causes (eg, homicide, suicide, drowning, and related to disasters, mechanical, transport, and other unintentional injuries) increased monotonically with temperature."
The 17 causes of death with J-shaped curves (dependent of temperature) included heart disease, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, lower respiratory infection, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Using the data, the team of authors extrapolated the results to the entire global population and examined the year 2019.
Comment: It's notable that the above is thought to be due to ice crystals forming in the atmosphere, because a variety of other related phenomena are on the rise and seem to further confirm that, as we enter a "grand" solar minimum, conditions on our planet are significantly cooling :
- Ozone hole above Antarctica is one of the largest ever, it's still growing, and may be linked to the COOLING stratosphere
- "Once in a lifetime" outbreak of polar stratospheric clouds captured on video above Sweden
- Cosmic climate change: 'Space plasma hurricane' observed in ionosphere above North Pole!
- Gulf Stream System at its weakest in over a millennium, last significant decline recorded during the little ice age
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