Lancet’s Misleading Excess Mortality Chart

By Paul Homewood

 

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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(23)00023-2/fulltext

I think I covered this report when it was published. It found that excess deaths from cold were about ten times those from heat across Europe:

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Bjorn Lomborg has pointed out however that the table included in the paper was misleading:

 

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https://twitter.com/BjornLomborg/status/1680966007148498945?s=20&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Whether this was deliberately dishonest or not, I do not know. But you can well imagine the misleading version being promulgated by the media.

Lomborg goes on to show how rising temperatures have been saving lives:

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And he explains why cold weather is so much more deadly:

 

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August 6, 2023 at 05:48AM

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