Surprise: Inflation Is Running Rampant In Developed World Nations

By William Teach June 2, 2021 – 10:30 am

Weren’t the Credentialed Media telling us that inflation wasn’t a concern, that everything would be OK, and even “heck, you right wingers are crazy for talking about inflation.” I guess CNN Business missed the memo from CNN News

Global inflation hasn’t been this high since 2008

Price are rising quickly across huge swaths of the developed world, with inflation in countries that belong to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development surging in April to the highest rate since 2008.

Energy price hikes boosted average annual inflation across OECD countries to 3.3% in April, compared with 2.4% in March, the Paris-based organization said Wednesday. That’s the fastest rate since October 2008, when the global financial crisis delivered a massive shock to the world economy.

But prices are rising across the world even when volatile food and energy costs are excluded. When those products are omitted from calculations, inflation still jumped from 1.8% in March to 2.4% in April.

The sudden arrival of inflation as economies reboot following the coronavirus pandemic is a major challenge for policymakers around the world. Rising prices are bad news for anyone on a fixed income, and central bankers may be tempted to combat inflation by hiking interest rates or paring back stimulus programs.

Economists agree there is upward pressure on prices. But there is no consensus on whether rising inflation is a temporary phenomenon that will fade as economies and consumers adjust to life after the pandemic, or if price rises signal the start of a sustained trend with major implications for workers and companies.

“Implications.” They mean a big cost of living increase.

Prices are rising at different rates across the 38 countries of the OECD, which together account for about 60% of the global economy. In the United States, annual inflation increased to 4.2% in April from 2.6% in March, while Canada’s rate accelerated to 3.4% from 2.2%. Europe saw more modest increases in April, with inflation increasing to 1.6% in the United Kingdom, 2% in Germany, 1.2% in France and 1.1% in Italy.

But there are signs that prices are continuing to rise. Surging energy prices caused inflation in the 19 countries that use the euro to increase to 2% in May from 1.6% in April, according to data published Tuesday, exceeding the European Central Bank’s inflation target of “below but close to 2%.”

This couldn’t have anything to do with the insane spending from government, right? Or how governments are doing things to change energy

Energy costs are stoking inflation. Just look at US gas prices

Investors worried about rising inflation should keep an eye on what’s happening at the pump.

US gas prices hit their highest level in seven years during a busy Memorial Day weekend, as Americans traveled to meet up with friends and took much-needed vacations.

What’s happening: Data from GasBuddy shows gas in the United States is at its most expensive since 2014. AAA puts the national average at $3.05 per gallon, up from $2.90 one month ago and $1.98 a year ago. (snip)

In the United States, inflation data released Friday showed a 3.6% rise in prices in April from one year ago, as energy prices jumped 25%. Excluding the cost of food and energy, prices rose 3.1%.

Sure, things like the pipeline country getting hacked causing all sorts of problems did not help. What about west coast areas? What’s causing the price increases there? Could it have anything to do with Biden and Democrats climate-fear mongering and saying they are going to get rid of fossil fuels?

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The Next Decade Is Make Or Break On The Climate Crisis (scam)

By William Teach June 2, 2021 – 7:41 am

It’s always “the next decade”, isn’t it? The next decade to implement massive government control and taxation. Usually by big wigs who refuse to modify their own ways and make their lives carbon neutral

EU chief calls current decade ‘make or break’ for climate change

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday that the world was in “the make or break decade’ with respect to the climate change. She was delivering a virtual speech at the 2021 Partnering for Green growth and the Global Goals 2030, or P4G, summit

“Change is never easy but Europe has taken the decision because mankind can’t wait any longer. And we have to do this together,” von der Leyen said.

“The next six months are crucial for the health and well-being of our people and our planet. Let’s work together.”

The EU’s new target is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030 from 1990 levels. Agreed last month, the goal is more ambitious than the previous plan for a 40% cut.

Tell you what: let these EU countries implement all their climate cult policies, and let’s see what happens over the next 10 years. Every experiment needs an experimental group, and this will give the rest of the world the opportunity to see the results. We’ll see how much freedom is lost, how much taxes and the cost of living increase. And whether it makes a difference. It won’t, but, it will create more government

From Heat Officers to Mobilization Directors, Specialists Help Cities With Climate Change

Tucson hired a forester. Miami named a heat officer. And Los Angeles appointed a climate emergency mobilization director.

Across the United States, cities have launched new programs focused on dealing with extreme weather, reflecting the growing impacts of climate change on local communities, according to experts.

Since 2019 at least 30 U.S. cities have taken fresh action such as hiring specialists to combat the impact of extreme weather, including Phoenix, Houston, Louisville, Nashville, and Oakland, according to the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center, based at Washington D.C.’s Atlantic Council think tank.

These government officers are now imbued with powers to tell citizens what to do. To impinge on their freedom and choice. Some things seem innocuous, like the heat manager in Miami

The officer will focus on strategies for the Miami region to adapt to its ever-hotter climate, with special attention on “communities of color and low-income residents, who have fewer resources to overcome these challenges,” Mayor Levine Cava said in late April at a news conference announcing the program.

Already, the newly appointed interim heat officer, Jane Gilbert, is getting to work with an agenda that includes creating more shaded bus stops and helping with existing plans for planting more trees in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods.

Seems OK, right? Until they start telling people what to do. I do enjoy that these very Leftist people are always thinking that minorities, primarily blacks, cannot do anything on their own, that they can only survive with government. Rather a racist attitude, eh? Of course, we’ll all need shade when government forces most people to take the bus because we can’t afford electric vehicles. It’s all about reading between the lines and realizing what they Warmists want to do after watching them for decades.

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COVID Passports Are Everywhere

By William Teach June 2, 2021 – 7:29 am

When it comes to COVID vaccine requirements, it’s one thing for a company to require proof of vaccination. As annoying as that is, you can choose to say ” nope, I’m good, I’ll take my business elsewhere.” It’s something quite different when government is running it and especially requiring it

Switzerland to Start Implementing EU COVID-19 Passport System on June 7

Under the Federal Office of Information Technology, Systems and Telecommunication (FOITT) solution, Switzerland has announced the implementation of the COVID-19 certificate system, which will be effective immediately and running until the end of June 2021.

During the pilot phase, which is set to start on June 7, Swiss cantons will be issued gradually with the first digital certificates, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports.

Starting on June 1, seven EU countries – Bulgaria, Czechia, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Croatia and Poland have started to implement the COVID-19 passport. Other countries are set to launch the document once all functions are operating and it is recognised widely.

The gateway will operate as a verification tool for the COVID-19 passport issued by the EU, which aims to revive travelling within the block. Since May 10, 22 countries have successfully tested the COVID-19 passport gateway.

Since it is set to provide a high level of security, Switzerland’s system will be subjected to a broad public security test. This means that besides the security analyses conducted by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the security system will also be tested by public security experts and other authorities regarding the field.

That should work out well. Another article on this EU passport system notes

The gateway, which has been set up within a period of two months, will serve as a verification tool for the EU COVID-19 certificates, through which the EU intends to restore the freedom of movement within the block.

These are the same types of political people who lose their minds over illegal aliens showing their papers, and, government requiring that one gets the shot or have had COVID and have the antibodies is the antithesis of freedom of movement

New York’s ‘Excelsior Pass’ is United States’ first COVID-19 vaccine passport

On the Upper East Side in Manhattan, a well-heeled crowd flashed it to get into a socially distanced dance performance at the Park Avenue Armory. In Chelsea, people showed it to attend a John Mulaney stand-up set at City Winery. And in Troy, New York, patrons are using it to enter an intimate, speakeasy-style bar that admits only vaccinated guests.

This magic ticket is New York state’s Excelsior Pass, which was introduced in March as the first and only government-issued vaccine passport in the country, accessible, for now, only to people who have been vaccinated in the state.

Officials are hoping that it can help New Yorkers feel confident about the safety of businesses and jump-start a statewide economy that is still reeling from losses experienced during the pandemic. But for that to happen, they will need more people and businesses to start using it and vaccine passports to become more universally accepted.

Though it is basically just a QR code on your phone that indicates your vaccine status, the pass, and vaccine passports more generally, have become a political flashpoint among conservatives who say the passports violate privacy concerns.

So, I guess only Conservatives worry about privacy concerns, as well as creating an exclusionary system which leaves those who haven’t had the vaccine out in the wilderness. As far as I can ascertain, this passport doesn’t include those who have had COVID and have the antibodies.

Britain plans to scrap their COVID passport (at least for the moment), while India plans on implementing one for international travel (which at least makes some sense, as opposed to making one for everything). The US state of Georgia has prohibited the creation and use of passports. When members of the Credentialed Media start yapping about using them being for the “public good“, be concerned.

(Tyler Morning Telegraph) Such a [COVID passport] law in a country that respects citizens’ right to set their own health care course would be a concerning shift in direction. It would represent a government intrusion into an area of personal privacy that would, at the very least, result in legal challenge. The inevitable conflict that would be stoked by such a measure would distract, ultimately, from the prize of herd immunity.

Likewise, a vaccine passport — a shorthand way of describing a requirement for proof of vaccination — comes very close to a vaccine mandate if any such “passport” were to be required by government. A passport mandate for admission or participation is akin to a vaccination mandate. As such, government should not enshrine any government mandate for a vaccine passport.

Tucker Carlson: COVID passport could be just the beginning
‘Why can’t they do the same to people with HIV or tuberculosis, or Hepatitis C?’

If you’re a middle-aged American, you can probably still dimly remember back to what things used to be like in this country, say, 13 or 14 months ago. Way back then, before the revolution, pretty much everybody agreed that segregation was the worst thing this country ever did. Forcing certain categories of citizens into separate, lesser accommodations, barring them from public places, treating them like lepers or untouchables — that was completely immoral and wrong, we were told that a lot and most of us strongly agreed. It was wrong.

So imagine our confusion today looking out across the country now. The very same people who just the other day told us that segregation was wrong are now enforcing segregation. (snip)

The New York Times informed us that unless you can prove you’ve taken the injection the Democratic Party demands you take, you are no longer permitted in bars, comedy clubs, or even some dance competitions in the state of New York. You’re too dirty to appear in public. You’re not welcome near normal people. Want to watch the NBA playoffs in person? You’d better be vaccinated.

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Surprise: Dutch Ruling On Shell Oil Benefits OPEC And Russia

By William Teach June 1, 2021 – 3:00 pm

Remember when I mentioned the Cult of Climastrology winning with a ruling against Shell Oil in the Netherlands?

Climate cultists can’t win by convincing people, so, they’re using the courts to jam through their cult beliefs. This won’t harm Shell: it will just increase the cost of product. Which means the cost of other goods that are delivered by fossil fueled vehicle, plane, and ship will increase. That’s a win, right?

And there could be unintended consequences? Well, here’s another

OPEC, Russia seen gaining more power with Shell Dutch ruling

unintended consequencesClimate activists who scored big wins against Western majors last week had some unlikely cheerleaders in the oil capitals of Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Russia.

Defeats in the courtroom and boardroom mean Royal Dutch Shell, ExxonMobil and Chevron are all under pressure to cut carbon emissions faster. That’s good news for the likes of Saudi Arabia’s national oil company Saudi Aramco, Abu Dhabi National Oil Co, and Russia’s Gazprom and Rosneft.

It means more business for them and the Saudi-led Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).

“Oil and gas demand is far from peaking and supplies will be needed, but international oil companies will not be allowed to invest in this environment, meaning national oil companies have to step in,” said Amrita Sen from consultancy Energy Aspects.

Good job, Warmists (who also won’t give up their own use of fossil fuels)

The International Energy Agency, which looks after the energy policies of the West, issued an appeal last month to the world to essentially scrap all new oil and gas developments. But it gave no clear formula on how to reduce demand.

“It (the IEA report) is a sequel of the La La Land movie. Why should I take it seriously?” Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said on Tuesday.

“We (Saudi Arabia) are … producing oil and gas at low cost and producing renewables. I urge the world to accept this as a reality: that we’re going to be winners of all of these activities,” he told an online news conference after a regular OPEC+ meeting.

A high-level executive from Russia’s Gazprom said: “It looks like the West will have to rely more on what it calls ‘hostile regimes’ for its supply”.

Don’t you hate when those unintended consequences reach up and smack you in the face with the Dead Mackerel of Reality?

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Young Warmists Suffering From “Climate Anxiety” Demand More Doom Teaching To Get More Anxiety

By William Teach June 1, 2021 – 3:00 pm

It’s a savage circle: Warmists get anxiety from learning cultish teachings on climate doom, and then they want more teaching on climate doom, which gives them more anxiety of coming doom, which wants them to have more information on doom

Youngsters suffering from ‘eco-anxiety’ as campaigners demand more climate change teaching in schools

There are growing calls for schools to teach more about climate change.

Students say they feel “held back” by not knowing enough.

Some teachers describe the national curriculum as “limited” and want it extended to include more on the climate emergency.

Student campaign group, Teach the Future, believes the subject should be mandatory for all year groups.

The group’s co-ordinator, Scarlett Westbrook, says climate change is “glossed over”.

She surveyed students and found only four percent felt they knew enough about the climate crisis.

“We need the knowledge to be able to deal with this post-climate breakdown world that we’re going to be entering, as we exit university and schooling and into the workforce,” Scarlett said.

So, wait, only four percent feel they know enough, yet, they’re all saying we are Doomed from a slight increase in Earth’s global temperature in the past 170 years? Really? And this is giving them climate cult anxiety? They do understand that the Internet is available for research, right? As is the library? And can read books from the book store and Amazon, right?

Scarlett said increasing numbers of young people are suffering from “eco-anxiety” because their educations fails to tackle their concerns over the climate.

How can they have anxiety if they do not know anything?

In a statement a spokesperson for the Department for Education said: “It is vital that young people are taught about climate change, which is why relevant topics are included in the national curriculum for both primary and secondary schools.

“Teachers have the freedom to expand on these areas if they wish to do so.”

Indoctrination, and then teachers who aren’t versed in science and climate doom-mongering even more.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 1, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is a wall eroding from extreme weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is A View From The Beach, with a post on Texas passing voting protections, and Dems freaking out.

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The White House Is A Monday Thru Friday Kind Of Place For China Joe

By William Teach June 1, 2021 – 10:30 am

Now, imagine the apoplexy from CNN and the rest of the Credentialed Media if this was about Trump

For Biden, the White House is ‘a Monday-through-Friday kind of place’

Biden Brain SlugBeginning in 1973, when he was a United States Senator from Delaware, Joe Biden had a ritual: nearly every evening he would hop a train back to Wilmington after his work day on Capitol Hill, spending most nights and weekends at the place he considered home, 100 miles from Washington.

Doing so earned him the nickname “Amtrak Joe,” and in 2011, the Wilmington depot was renamed the Joseph R. Biden Jr. Railroad Station. In all, he took more than 8,000 of those roundtrips during his 36 years in the Senate and, though less frequently, his eight years as vice president, no small feat for a busy politician.

Turns out old habits die hard.

Since taking office four months ago, the President has spent more weekends away from the White House than he has stayed there, almost three times as many. Counting this Memorial Day weekend, Biden has been in Wilmington nine weekends and passed five weekends at the presidential retreat, Camp David, in rural Maryland. The numbers far exceed any modern president’s weekends off-campus at this point in his tenure.

But, see, Joe’s not playing golf, so, everything is OK. No mention that he takes fossil fueled helicopter flights now while wanting to force Americans onto trains and richer folks into electric vehicles.

“He thinks of (the White House) more like a Monday-through-Friday kind of place,” said one of several people familiar with Biden’s thinking who spoke to CNN for this story and were granted anonymity in order to preserve relationships. This person said the people’s house was akin to presidential corporate housing. “Really, really high-end corporate housing.”

“Joe Biden has always been the guy who goes home to Delaware,” said another person who has worked with the President. “The White House isn’t going to change that.”

Really, I have no problem with that. If he wants to hang at home, that’s fine. It’s understandable. Especially at Joe’s age and his mental issues, he wants to be around the familiar. I do have a problem with the media being fine with this, when they would be blasting Trump, and did blast him constantly for the times he left the White House.

Despite its 54,900 square feet, bowling alley, movie theater, tennis pavilion, acres of grounds and dozens of staff, Biden’s instinct — sometimes last-minute, say those familiar with his schedule — is to get away from it for a weekly breather. One person said it’s the escapism aspect of getting away from “the office” that drives him to seek another location.

Um, he did run for this position, just like he did for Vice President.

Part of the issue is that Biden is quite simply no longer “Amtrak Joe,” and that moving the President of the United States from point A to point B requires dozens of people, military precision planning and the coordination of law enforcement, from the Secret Service to local police officers. Tension is building between White House staff tasked with delivering the news of a weekend away and the logistical apparatus that allows it, said another person familiar with operations.

Well, they should have plenty of time to plan, since they are typically calling lids on Joe doing anything early in the day.

The residence is, however, the symbolic pinnacle of political achievement, which begs the question why he would rather not have been there for 14 of the 19 weekends he has been president.

More recently, Donald Trump would get away at his private Palm Beach, Florida, club, taking about eight leisure weekends from the White House by the same point in his presidency that Biden is at now. Barack Obama was an early fan of weekends with his family at Camp David, going approximately a half-dozen times in his first four months in office.

Now remember how the media treated Trump, who took 6 fewer weekend trips. Anyhow, the rest of the article makes excuses for Biden.

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Bummer: Texas Leaves Climate Doom Out Of Winter Storm Blackout Fix

By William Teach June 1, 2021 – 6:57 am

This Associated Press is being repeated all over the place, but, they all seem to forget that this was a massive winter storm that hit Texas….oh, right, the climate cultists blame winter weather on heat trapping gases, because they are a cult. These people are just taking advantage of misery and deaths (at least 151) from a winter storm

Texas’ fix after blackout doesn’t dwell on climate change

Texas’ biggest fix to February’s deadly winter blackout that left more than 4 million people without power puts new attention on projections by the state’s climatologist but does not dwell on climate change after a deep freeze buckled the state’s unprepared electric grid.

A far-reaching bill sent Sunday night to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott would require some power generators to winterize against extreme cold following one of the most massive blackouts in U.S. history. Experts praised some reforms as significant but say concessions to Texas’ powerful oil and gas industry still leaves the grid vulnerable.

President Joe Biden’s national climate adviser called the winter storm a “wake-up call” for the United States to build energy systems and other infrastructure that are more reliable and resilient in the face of extreme-weather events. But in the Texas Capitol, Republican lawmakers sidelined discussion of climate change while trying to get to the root of the blackout and come up with ways to prevent it from happening again.

Why would they discuss anthropogenic climate change? Or, heck, natural climate change? Discussing a mild increase in global temperatures won’t solve, fix, or help in modifying the grid to minimize widescale power outages.

A last-minute addition to the bill requires energy regulators to consider in their planning projections by the state’s climatologist. John Nielsen-Gammon, who has been the Texas state climatologist for two decades, said he was not asked to testify by lawmakers after the blackout but did provide input to the some offices that reached out.

“The cold wasn’t unprecedented, but the combination of extreme cold and widespread snow was extremely unusual,” Nielsen-Gammon said in an email. “ Also, I volunteered the information that climate change was probably making such events less likely rather than more likely.”

Hmm, a climatologist who hasn’t gone cult. But, that won’t stop Warmists from saying that big winter storms are part of ‘climate change.’

During February’s storm, demand for heat soared as temperatures plunged. Roughly a quarter of Texas’ natural gas supply was knocked off line. Failures by fossil fuel plants, including natural gas facilities, contributed twice as many outages as solar and wind generators, according to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the state’s grid operator.

After Hurricane Harvey slammed into Texas in 2017, a 200-page state report warned that powerful natural disasters will become more frequent because of a changing climate but did not use the phrase “climate change.”

“It’s very hard to prepare for something you’re scared to name,” Democratic state Rep. Erin Zweiner said.

What does Harvey have to do with the massive winter storm? And, has Texas been hit with a Harvey since? And why would you prepare for something that is mostly from the doomsday imaginations of cultists?

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British Intelligence Report Calls Wuhan Lab Leak “Feasible”

By William Teach June 1, 2021 – 6:45 am

Well, of course it’s feasible. It’s a lot more likely than someone eating a bat or something and creating a worldwide pandemic which spread as fast as gossip, spawning lots of variants in short order

UK intelligence reassesses COVID lab leak theory, now says its ‘feasible’

British intelligence services are now reportedly reassessing their position on the theory that COVID-19 leaked from a lab in China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology.

A Sunday report from the Sunday Times of London quotes British spies who initially dismissed the lab leak theory, but now say it is “feasible.”

“There might be pockets of evidence that take us one way, and evidence that takes us another way,” the paper quoted a source as saying. “The Chinese will lie either way. I don’t think we will ever know.”

The quote comes as both the United States and Britain are stepping up calls for the World Health Organization to take a deeper look into the possible origins of COVID-19, including a new visit to China, where the first human infections were detected.

Right, let’s let WHO investigate, because we all know they were tough on China this whole time, right? They certainly weren’t providing cover for China, right? Unfortunately, the rest of the article is behind a paywall, but British Intelligence is taking this seriously now.

WHO and Chinese experts issued a first report in March that laid out four hypotheses about how the pandemic might have emerged. The joint team said the most likely scenario was that the coronavirus jumped into people from bats via an intermediary animal, and the prospect that it erupted from a laboratory was deemed “extremely unlikely.”

Yup, let’s let WHO investigate. But, the source above is probably correct, the Chinese will lie, and we may never know, because they will never allow a true investigation, plus, by this point, the Wuhan lab is surely sanitized of anything related to COVID. Meanwhile

‘It’s the right thing to do’: WHO renames COVID variants with Greek letter names to avoid confusion, stigma

The World Health Organization has created a new system to name COVID-19 variants, getting away from place-based names that can be hard to pronounce, difficult to remember, and stigmatize a specific country.

The new system, which was announced Monday, is based on the letters of the Greek alphabet. The United Kingdom variant, called by scientists B.1.1.7, will now be Alpha. B.1.351, the South Africa variant, will now be Beta and the B.1.617.2 variant discovered in India will now be known as Delta.

When the 24 letters of the Greek alphabet are used up, WHO will announce another series.

“It’s the right thing to do,” said Dr. Monica Gandhi, an infectious disease expert at the University of California, San Francisco.

It may also make countries more open to reporting new variants if they’re not afraid of being forever associated with them in the mind of the public.

“As a result, people often resort to calling variants by the places where they are detected, which is stigmatizing and discriminatory,” WHO said.

How much of this is meant to protect China, rather than just silly Virtue Signaling and and such?

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Hotcold Take: Climate Cult Study Blames 37% Of Heat Deaths On You Eating Burgers

By William Teach May 31, 2021 – 3:00 pm

Must have been some serious work to go through every death that occurred between 1991 and 2018 (remember, there was also a big Pause between, charitably, 1998-2015)

Study blames climate change for 37 percent of heat deaths worldwide

More than one-third of the world’s heat deaths each year are due directly to global warming, according to the latest study to calculate the human cost of climate change.

But scientists say that’s only a sliver of climate’s overall toll — even more people die from other extreme weather amplified by global warming such as storms, flooding and drought — and the heat death numbers will grow exponentially with rising temperatures.

Dozens of researchers who looked at heat deaths in 732 cities around the globe from 1991 to 2018 calculated that 37 percent were caused by higher temperatures from human-caused warming, according to a study Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change.

That amounts to about 9,700 people a year from just those cities, but it is much more worldwide, the study’s lead author said.

Can they prove it is due to anthropogenic climate change, meaning a temperature rise from greenhouse gases? I’d certainly agree that land use and UHI can artificially increase localized temperatures in urban areas causing more stress on humans, but, come on, directly blaming a small rise in temperatures since 1850 for 37% of heat deaths? It’s a cult. But, here we go

Scientists used decades of mortality data in the 732 cities to plot curves detailing how each city’s death rate changes with temperature and how the heat-death curves vary from city to city. Some cities adapt to heat better than others because of air conditioning, cultural factors and environmental conditions, Vicedo-Cabrera said.

Then researchers took observed temperatures and compared them with 10 computer models simulating a world without climate change. The difference is warming humans caused. By applying that scientifically accepted technique to the individualized heat-death curves for the 732 cities, the scientists calculated extra heat deaths from climate change.

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“People continue to ask for proof that climate change is already affecting our health. This attribution study directly answers that question using state-of-the-science epidemiological methods, and the amount of data the authors have amassed for analysis is impressive,” said Dr. Jonathan Patz, director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin.

We’re still waiting for proof that it is due to carbon pollution. Correlation is not causation. All this presupposes, using junk computer models, is that a slight temperature increase, which doesn’t prove causation, leads to more deaths. What if we didn’t have fossil fuels and such? Would the climate be the same? Multiple Holocene warm periods were warmer. Now do the deaths from cold weather.

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