You talk about irresponsible. This is grossly malpractice of the profession of journalism.
On page 17A of the Wall Street Journal entitled "The Lancet's "Heat Death" Deception by Bjorn Lomborg is a multiparagraph fantasy to serve the right political wing.
I believe this is the study being referred to by Lomborg.
08 July 2021More than five million extra deaths a year (click here) can be attributed to abnormal hot and cold temperatures, according to a world first international study led by Monash University.
The study found deaths related to hot temperatures increased in all regions from 2000 to 2019, indicating that global warming due to climate change will make this mortality figure worse in the future.
The international research team, led by Monash University’s Professor Yuming Guo, Dr Shanshan Li, and Dr Qi Zhao from Shandong University in China – and published today in The Lancet Planetary Health – looked at mortality and temperature data across the world from 2000 to 2019, a period when global temperatures rose by 0.26C per decade.
The study, the first to definitively link above and below optimal temperatures (corresponding to minimum mortality temperatures) to annual increases in mortality, found 9.43 per cent of global deaths could be attributed to cold and hot temperatures. This equates to 74 excess deaths for every 100,000 people, with most deaths caused by cold exposure.
The data reveals geographic differences in the impact of non-optimal temperatures on mortality, with Eastern Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa having the highest heat and cold-related excess death rates....
Lomborg states no facts. He writes creatively that since there are more people in the world there are more heat deaths. When a study measures deaths in numbers there is always a comparison to the increase as being a natural occurrence because of recent increases in population. The one sure way to eliminate that level of inaccuracy is to report the increase in deaths by PERCENTAGES.
The study above does exactly what is supposed to do, it reports increases in deaths in percentages. The study clearly reports the information in percentages and allows for a mathematical equivalent in what it equates to.
Lomborg not only goes on and on about heat deaths but then states there are more cold deaths that are not reported. He is lying. The report CLEARLY states the increase in deaths related to temperature occurs when temperatures drop and not rise.
"The Wall Street Journal" is just another Murdoch rag that ENTERTAINS the reader and never addresses any opposition intelligently or with facts.
In previous meetings of COP (Conference of the Parties) (click here) the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has stated there was eleven years before catastrophic climate consequences. That was a full two if not approaching three years ago. Recently, the Washington Post reported nine years until catastrophic climate consequences. Those years do not mean Wall Street can keep polluting greenhouse gases, then stop in 2030 and everything will be okay. Eleven years and nine years are supposed to instill a sense of emergency to act NOW!
If a physician tells a patient they have nine years to live without treatment, does a patient wait for those nine years before starting treatment?
Please this is a humiliation to the countries of the world that have governance that can and have invoked justice in changing methods to energy that DO NOT POLLUTE GREENHOUSE GASES. This method of denial by the Wall Street Journal by propagating lies is an insult to the people of the world that know better than to believe this ideology of greed.
Let me put it differently so it is very, very clear.
We, as a global community, have ONLY NINE YEARS LEFT before there is catastrophic climate changes.
ONLY NINE YEARS BEFORE THIS PLANET BECOMES MORE AND MORE UNFORGIVING FOR THE ABUSES OF GREED.
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...Scotland’s renewable electricity generation in 2022 (click here) in quarter 2 was 7,358 GWh – a 36.2% increase from the 5,402 GWh generated in the same quarter in 2021. This is more than 25% greater than any quarter 2 reported previously and is likely due to increased wind and East Moray offshore windfarm coming online at the end of quarter 1.
In the first half of 2022, Scotland generated 18,568 GWh of renewable electricity, up 29.2% on the same point in 2021. This increase is likely explained by higher wind speeds, increased rainfall and East Moray offshore wind farm coming online affecting wind and hydro generation.
Renewable electricity capacity increased by 10.5% from June 2021 to 13.3 GW in June 2022. This is more than four times the increase in capacity seen between June 2020 and June 2021 where renewable electricity capacity increased by just 2.2%....
The world's populations need to demand MEASURABLE CHANGE IN EMISSIONS OF GREENHOUSE GASES now!
The Wall Street Journal is an enemy of the people of the world.
No country in the Free World is immune from the ravages of the climate crisis.
