Comment Bad Data (Score 1, Insightful) 122
Hundreds of heat related deaths! I had to look into this, as all available data shows cold related deaths are more common regionally and worldwide. The best I could find was an estimate published by NYT, referencing non-existant CDC data. These are estimates and to take the numbers as fact is irresponsible and misleading. Anthropogenic climate change is not real either. Yes, humans change their environment, just as the temperature of water changes when you measure it. The exent of our contribution to climate change is unknown since we are working with small sample sizes compared to geological timespans. Can we measure Earth's oceanic current, tectonic movements, elliptical movements, etc to the effect those have on climate change? What prompted Earth to enter the current interglacial we call the Holocene? External events such as the Younger Dryas theory would suggest?