When environmentalists hype heat-related deaths, they always ignore two important caveats.
▪️Vastly more people die from cold weather than hot.
▪️While heat deaths have risen recently, cold deaths have fallen by even more. So overall, fewer people are dying of temperature-related causes.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)62114-0/fulltext
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(21)00081-4/fulltext
▪️The most effective way to eliminate temperature-related deaths is NOT wishing to go back to a slightly colder climate (when more people died of extreme temps). It’s abundant, low-cost energy that allows people to heat and cool their homes.
It’s bizarre to see them seesaw back and forth that Trump is totally clueless and aloof, just golfing all day, then all of a sudden he’s a dangerous king/dictator who’s diligently plotting to seize absolute power.
▪️This one is frustrating because, while it’s nice to see the vigor and speed that DOGE is acting with, they’re also sloppy with some of their findings. This is not some bombshell, millions of dead people’s SS numbers aren’t being paid out to fraudsters.
▪️This problem has been known for some time, you can read an inspector general’s report from 2015 about millions of names on the SS “numident” not being correctly annotated for deaths, even though they were older than 112 (the oldest known American at the time).
https://oig-files.ssa.gov/audits/full/A-06-14-34030_0.pdf
▪️There are innocent explanations for some of these. Expatriates that died outside the country, for example. Or immigrants given temporary work permit who returned to their country, people issued new numbers for various reasons, etc. However, most are simply due to the govt not diligently keeping track of deaths.
▪️It’s embarrassing that the govt has millions of numbers on the numident that are ...
