They ignore the reduction in cold extremes and the emergence of vast new green areas, focusing only on downsides
newspaper summarised this scientific report as finding mankind “guilty as hell” of the “climate crimes of humanity”. Needless to say, the report says no such thing.
Since the heat dome in the US and Canada in June there has been a lot of writing about more heat deaths. And the IPCC confirms that climate change has indeed increased heatwaves. However, the report equally firmly, if virtually unacknowledged, tells us that global warming means “This matters, because globally many more people die from cold than from heat. A new study in the highly respected medical journal The Lancet shows that about half a million people die from heat every year, but 4.
It also mentions climate upsides like the fact that more CO₂ in the atmosphere has acted as a fertiliser and created astudy found that over a period of 35 years, climate change has added an area of green equivalent to twice the size of Australia. But don’t expect to read about this in any of the breathless articles on climate impact.
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