Warm Versus Cold

 I saw this in the AM today, and spent a good ten minutes pondering upon it.  Lancet, a Brit medical group....puts out a lot of data each year, and you have zero reason to really doubt their numbers.

So someone reviewed their numbers concerning climate change, and then broke it down into warm deaths and cold deaths.

Here's the end-result....more people die from extreme cold...than extreme warmth.

It's not really a shocker.

I do agree....there are particular cases where you ought to ask questions (like the 2003 heat wave in central Europe where thousands of French people died....from heat exhaustion).  But in the 2003 case....a lot of those deaths were older French people who were supposed to hydrate with water, and they were likely sipping more wine than water.

Clearly....for each death in a heat-wave....it's likely to be ten to one in a blizzard or cold-wave.

I spent nearly four years of my life living in a desert situation (Tucson, Arizona) and three years in a highly tropic area (Panama).  In each case, you end having to adjust your lifestyle and pay attention to little stupid things.

In Panama, your attire for 365 days a year was shorts and a t-shirt.  In the middle of the day, you needed to pay attention to hydration.  

In Tucson, you always carried a bottle of water with yourself....365 days a year.  You stayed out of direct sunlight as much as possible.  In the true sense of the word....you adopted to the heat to survive.  

People that fail to adopt....even in arctic conditions?  They don't survive.