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Air conditioning in April - good grief
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rnet[dot]co[dot]uk (Simon Gardner) writes:
Freak summers 'will happen regularly'
Costly extremes of weather will become the norm, study suggests
Tim Radford, science editor
Monday January 12, 2004
The Guardian
The 2003 heatwave in Europe that killed at least 20,000 people and
triggered losses of an estimated £7bn could be a taste of things to come,
according to research released today.
In France at least, some thousands did die during the heat wave, but
averaged over a longer period to the end of the year, there were no
more deaths than normal. So whilst you might claim the heatwave killed
thousands, they were going to die anyway over the next few months.
The heatwave merely knocked up to a few months off their lives.
The imaginary images of thousands of healthy people dying across Europe
which the press generated (particularly in the US) was highly misleading.
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Andrew Gabriel
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