Lying About the Weather

You can expect that Little Local Pravda will be running a story claiming that "extreme" heat is killing vast numbers of US citizens.

They'll make that claim without evidence.  It's what they do.

...First off, the only reason “extreme” temperature kills more people than other weather hazards is that deaths from weather have plummeted over the century, even as doomsday climate warnings about heat, hurricanes, tornados, floods, and droughts have spiked. Extreme weather accounts for only about 0.1 death for every 100,000 people in the United States each year....

... Nowhere in the [WaPo] piece, however, do the authors tell us exactly how many Americans have perished from the oppressive heat. Anyway, it’s around 700 people a year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — if you liberally count heat as both the “underlying” and/or “contributing” causes. It is about 400 people when heat is the underlying cause....

Four hundred.  (Quick question:  how many old people did Andrew Cuomo kill with his Covid policies?)

And that four hundred?  Not from "extreme" heat.  Nope.

...most of those deaths, despite the Post’s claim, are from the cold, which is far more lethal. I come to this information via a Washington Post piece that ran this very winter, which noted that for “every death linked to heat, nine are tied to cold.”...

But in the Bubble-Axis of Evil running from Washington to New York City, it's really hot outside.  "Cold"?  Read the annual temperature charts for that axis.....it's never really cold.

The point of all this?  

Create fear.  A LOT of fear.  Covid-19 level fear.

Only the Government can solve that large a problem, you see.