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Originally Posted by aerohead
The other night on the news they mentioned that NASA/NOAA said that the last 4-years were the hottest ever recorded,and 20-out of the last 22-years are the warmest.
In the last 30-years,more people have died from heat-related deaths than from any other weather-related cause.
Between 2015 and 2017,heat-related deaths were up 82%.
In the summer of 2017,Maricopa,County,Arizona,alone, saw 182 heat-related deaths,1,720-hospitalizations,and 6,880 emergency room visits.
By 2030 an additional 250,000/year are expected to die from heat-related causes.
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That's going to be nothing compared to when electricity and gas infrastructure fail during a cold winter since only around 1 or 2% of people have home heating that will function with out electricity or gas.
A few million people could easily die after several days with no electricity and gas over a large area.
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