Extreme heat is the No. 1 cause of weather-related deaths in the U.S., a risk that grows as temperatures rise.
From the story here.
This isn't even debatable in the slightest degree:
Cold-related deaths outnumber heat deaths in all countries
What’s consistent in these studies is that cold-related deaths vastly outnumber those from heat.
In the Global Burden of Disease study, cold-related deaths were around four times higher than heat-related ones.
The study that estimates that 7.7% of deaths were attributed to temperature found that 7.3% were from cold temperatures; 0.4% were from heat.
In the “5 million death” study, 9.4% of deaths were related to sub-optimal temperatures. 8.5% were cold-related, and 0.9% were heat-related. This skew was true across all regions.
You can see these results in the chart below.
Globally, cold deaths are 9 times higher than heat-related ones. In no region is this ratio less than 3, and in many, it’s over 10 times higher. Cold is more deadly than heat, even in the hottest parts of the world.
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Twenty years of data:
