Of course, if this was true, they’d all be waiting a long time due to the illegal aliens jamming up the ERs in the People’s Republik Of California
Climate Change Will Send Many More Californians to the ER
California’s emergency departments will be more clogged than ever as climate change pushes daily temperatures higher, a study finds.
But there is one silver lining to the new research, however: Thousands of fewer deaths in California from extreme cold.
Nevertheless, high temperatures will also be flooding hospitals with patients as heat triggers injuries and worsens chronic health issues.
“Heat can harm health even when it doesn’t kill,” explained study first author Carlos Gould, assistant professor of public health at the University of California San Diego. “Warmer temperatures were consistently associated with more trips to the emergency department, so studies and planning that only consider mortality [death] miss a big slice of the burden.”
It’s on average 1.7F higher than it was in 1850. Can anyone tell the difference?
Working alongside researchers at Stanford University, Gould’s team looked at data on deaths, emergency department (ED) visits, hospitalizations and daily temperatures in California from 2006 to 2017.
The good news: projecting the health-related effects of climate change to 2050, California should expect to see around 53,500 fewer deaths overall due to less cold weather, the data showed.
So, are they say fewer deaths is a good thing or bad thing by 2050?
Of course, heatstroke is the effect that most people might associated with extreme heat. But many ED visits will be due to other heat-linked events or conditions: injuries, mental health issues and poisonings, especially.
“We often think about only the most extreme health impacts of heat waves: deaths. This work is showing that many things that we may not think about being sensitive to extreme heat are, like poisonings, endocrine disorders, injuries and digestive issues,” said study co-author Alexandra Heaney.
“We need to focus on the full spectrum of health impacts when we think about heat waves, now and in the future,” said Heaney, who is assistant professor of public health at UCSD.
So, give us money. For a whopping 1.7F in 175 years.
The problem Mr Teach isn’t so much that the avg temp has gone up big that extreme weather events both hot and cold have I crossed in severity.
And of course 2/3s of that increase has occured during the last 55 years
Has Mr Teach realized that the rate of increase has not remained the same? Remember your Blair calculus dy/dx
Johnny, Johnny..there’s no more severe weather now than before.
And even if there was, the fact that it was occurring wouldn’t necessarily mean “climate change” as the cause. That whole correlation-causation thing….
Again, one can’t really compare temp “rates” as there’s really not much temp data before 1850 except for the US and Central Europe, and basically none for the oceans.
And cold still kills way more than heat does.
Mr T either intentionally misrepresents the meaning of the mean global surface temperature or doesn’t understand its significance, pointing out that one can’t even tell a difference of 1.7F!
Well, one can’t tell the difference between lake water with or without brain-eating amoeba either. Or air with or without carbon monoxide. Or with or without radon gas. Or with or without particulates.
So what’s your point, Rimjob?
Or do you just like to use senseless analogies?