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PH02today at 3:21 PM2 repliesview on HN

The US gun deaths figure comes from death certificates. The EU heat death figures comes from modelling.

I'll leave it to you to work out why that comparison doesn't hold.


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scottLobstertoday at 3:31 PM

You sure about that?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4d2vv935lo

> In a post on X, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said more than 1,300 excess deaths had been recorded since 21 June "linked to high temperatures in Europe".

> On Sunday morning, France's national health ministry said there had been around 1,000 more deaths than expected in the country since Wednesday.

https://www.dw.com/en/heat-wave-european-countries-report-37...

> At least 3,700 excess deaths have been recorded in France, Belgium and the Netherlands alone as a result of the June heat wave that sent temperatures soaring above 40°C (104°F).

Just stop. A lack of European AC is making a negligible difference at best in the fight against climate change and it's killing your people. The models aren't that wrong.

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throw-the-toweltoday at 3:23 PM

Are we now doing that "died with Covid, not of Covid" shite again?

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