Category: Cold Kills

HADCRUT4 Gridded Feb 2013 – Europe was COLDER than 1961-1990!!!

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Using HADCRUT4 Gridded data for Feb 2013 , I thought it would be useful to map the 5×5 grid squares colder than 1961-1990.

For some strange reason HADCRUT4 uses the archaic 1961-1990 period as the baseline, rather than the accepted 1981-2010.

Please click on the maps to make them bigger. And make sure you get them to go full size. I made them pretty big (3200 x 2000 pixels).

The number in the boxes is the temperature difference between the 1961-90 average and Feb 2013.

Notice that most of Western Europe was colder than 1961-1990!!!!!!!

Why only the cold squares? Because the HADCRUT4 page colr choices tends to minimize the cold areas. And because I can.

HAD4_Grid_February_2013_v2

UK’s coldest spring since 1963 claims 5,000 lives

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Do you know what the difference is between the 5,000 dead people referenced in this story and all the people killed by global warming?

The UK dead are real. Cold kills.

 

“Freezing Britain’s unusually harsh winter could have cost thousands of pensioners their lives.

This month is on track to be the coldest March for 50 years – and as the bitter Arctic conditions caused blackouts and traffic chaos yesterday, experts warned of an ‘horrendous’ death toll among the elderly.

About 2,000 extra deaths were registered in just the first two weeks of March compared with the average for the same period over the past five years.

And for February, 3,057 extra deaths were registered in England and Wales compared with the five-year average for the month.”

(h/t Tom Nelson)

 

Cold May Kill As Many as 30,000 in UK this Winter

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“BRITAIN’S relentless big freeze has sparked fears of the highest winter death rate for five years.
By: Nathan Rao
Published: Wed, March 13, 2013

The brutal Arctic blast has seen temperatures plummet to -13C (9F) amid what could be the coldest March for almost three decades.

Pensioner groups warned the death rate among Britain’s elderly has already soared this winter with fears it could hit 30,000 – 6,000 more than last year.”

Read the rest here.

(h/t Tom Nelson)