Awww, poor global warming wankers: Winter cold kills more than twice as many Americans as does summer heat

Killer cold: Winter is deadlier than summer in U.S.

Awww, poor global warming wankers: Winter cold kills more than twice as many Americans as does summer heat 1406662092000-AP-Deep-Freeze

Awww, poor global warming wankers: Winter cold kills more than twice as many Americans as does summer heat 1406662092000-AP-Deep-Freeze

Winter cold kills more than twice as many Americans as does summer heat, according to a report released today by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), a division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Based on death certificate data from 2006-10, the report's authors found that "about 2,000 U.S. residents died each year from weather-related causes of death." The CDC report found that 63% of these deaths were attributed to exposure to excessive natural cold, hypothermia or both, while about 31% of these deaths were attributed to exposure to excessive natural heat, heat stroke, sun stroke or all.
Only about 6% were attributed to floods, severe storms, tornadoes, hurricanes or lightning.
"This is the first report from the National Center for Health Statistics to focus on weather-related death by place of residence," said report co-author Jennifer Parker, chief of the special projects branch at the NCHS. The authors studied the causes of death on death certificates as prepared by coroners or medical examiners. Deaths when weather was an underlying or contributing cause were included.
One interesting finding, according to Parker, was the high number of deaths in the rural West due to the cold. Not surprisingly, most of the heat-related deaths occurred in the warmer South and West. The report also found that the rate of heat-related mortality was higher in the most urbanized — along with the most rural — counties.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2014/07/30/weather-death-statistics-cold-heat/13323173/

Awww, poor global warming wankers: Winter cold kills more than twice as many Americans as does summer heat

Awww, poor global warming wankers: Winter cold kills more than twice as many Americans as does summer heat

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