tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post6822780386580511371..comments2024-03-25T05:30:23.847+11:00Comments on HotWhopper: Anthony Watts: culture kills. The European heat wave 2003Souhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08818999735123752034noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-88516228482997326792016-07-09T18:33:08.878+10:002016-07-09T18:33:08.878+10:00Actually MikeB is saying also that there is nothin...Actually MikeB is saying also that there is nothing exceptional with the mortality rate, and no increase, in France, but I don't know where its link, indexmundi, get the data. Mortality rate in France is quite on the increase and there was other months with high summer mortality, like 2006, 2010 or 2015. And about the "culture of the heat", en España también mortality skyrocketed in 2003. And en España about every house has A/C and we can't say España don't know what calor es.<br /><br />Pour la France:<br /><br />http://www.bdm.insee.fr/bdm2/affichageSeries?anneeDebut=2000&anneeFin=2015&page=graphique&recherche=criteres&codeGroupe=1505&idbank=000067680<br /><br />Y en España, increase also of the mortality rate:<br /><br />http://www.ine.es/jaxiT3/Datos.htm?t=1445<br /><br />And about the title and the complains of Watts, you rarely die directly from heat (excepted if you are put in an oven without flames, et encore...). The cause “hyperthermia” is rare on certificate of death. You die from a stroke, dehydration, hyponatremia, edema, perhaps even from a bad fall due to exhaustion. Rarely from an hyperthermia, body being unable to keep the temperature at 37°C. Generally, at this point, you are already totally dehydrated and good for the mortuary. So yes you have to model data and estimates the excess due to heat wave. On certificate of death there is not a check box “death due to the heat wave”... And contrary to what said Ferdinand Engelbeen, “What the researchers “forget” to mention is that death rates increase during a heatwave, but are lower in the months after the heat wave. That points to persons with already weak health which would decease only a few weeks to a few months later…”, there was no rebound effect after the heat waves (plural needed).Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05598136175803660988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-90945448498248000422016-07-09T16:34:53.607+10:002016-07-09T16:34:53.607+10:00And when they retire to Florida they will be up to...And when they retire to Florida they will be up to their knees in nice cooling seawater.Millicentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-61438807113562943942016-07-09T10:06:23.589+10:002016-07-09T10:06:23.589+10:00But, but, they all have A/C. But, but, they all have A/C. jrkrideauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04869979887929067657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-54698747559953095622016-07-09T04:12:10.208+10:002016-07-09T04:12:10.208+10:00Didn't Anthony think to check if the prevailin...Didn't Anthony think to check if the prevailing wind direction meant all that hot air had been warmed up by Russian steam pipes?Millicentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-50112066840722471872016-07-09T02:59:57.125+10:002016-07-09T02:59:57.125+10:00Judging from the average Wattie age and the fact t...Judging from the average Wattie age and the fact that many of them live in hot parts of the U.S. you'd think they'd be a little more careful about what they mock, like the elderly dying in severe heat waves.<br /><br />But you'd be wrong.Magmanoreply@blogger.com