Climate lies explained in 1 chart
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I don't think death rates by temperature-specific ailments were the focus of climate change alarmists (seeing we're ignoring all other weather/earthquake casualties that they also try to attribute to calamity change/fracking). They've been concerned with ice caps, the sea level, and long-term feasibility of life on the planet.
If I hadn't spent my entire life being told that the ice caps are going to melt tomorrow and the sea is rising at a rate of one mile per second, only to look back ten years and realize that none of it actually happened, I might entertain the idea. Hell, I used to believe it, back when I was young enough not to know better. But after all these years, the best they've got is "the average temperature of the globe has gone up one degree", which I'm sorry, but I just cannot give less of a shit about.
Good. Me neither. My point was that the OP image misses most of what alarmists have been mostly screaming about for the last decade and a half.
OP's image is a valid refutation.
The sea level rise is a solved quantity. We already know how fast it is rising, and how fast it will continue to rise. The answer is very very slowly and steadily, to the point where it is a trivial and insignificant problem easily addressed by sea walls and slowly increasing the pad height of new construction in some low-lying coastal communities.
I guess I'm just missing what is being refuted by OP.
Alarmists are all over the place in their argumentation. They claim every severe weather event and natural disaster under the sun is because of climate change and CO2 output.
The fact that Spaniards suffer cold-specific casualties proportionately less than other Europeans, juxtaposed with the narrative fear porn about heat deaths, does not give me anything I think I could convince an alarmist with.
Their fear is about the future. They still think heat and ocean levels will be an actual problem, and that we'll lose the beloved polar bears.
climate change aka global warming = the earth's average temperature will go up slightly.
this is a good thing, because it will mean a small increase in heat deaths, but a much much larger decrease in cold deaths, for a net overall benefit to human health and safety.
There are other arguments for why global warming is good, such as the GLOBAL GREENING brought on by the fact that higher temperatures and more CO2 massively boost the farmable land and general plant biomass in the world, but OP's point is one of the significant arguments in favor of the fact that global warming will be a net benefit to society.
If you study the science, as I have, then you know that there is no scientific evidence of any ill effects from global warming other than sea level rise, which is easily adapted to. There is no evidence that global warming causes any increase in natural disasters of any kind, be it wild fires or hurricanes or volcanoes. Nor is there any evidence that a hotter earth means more deserts. Quite the opposite. The earth was 12-15C hotter in the past, and at those temperatures, it wasn't a barren hellscape, it was a lush jungle planet. High temperatures means more evaporation, and therefore more rain.
Guys, I'm just saying the OP is attacking a straw-man. Heat-related deaths in current year are not the thing that climate alarmists are ultimately worried about. https://www.wsj.com/articles/al-gores-climate-sequel-misses-a-few-inconvenient-facts-1501193349