Jim Steele@JimSteeleSkepti
Dr. Genevieve Guenther is the author of "The Language of Climate Politics". Her latest post reveals just how dishonest her language is. In response to her tweet that according to the , "journal @TheLancet, heat waves caused an estimated 546,000 deaths every year between 2012 and 2021 – a 63% rise on rates seen in the 1990s."
Dr. Genevieve fear mongered "this is what “safe” global heating looks like."
To put heat wave deaths in context I posted a graph from the Lancet showing cold deaths cause 10X more deaths than warm deaths!
Dr. Genevieve replied dishonestly claiming it was not from the Lancet but a random graph created by deniers at the CO2 coalition.
So I posted, there and here, the attached graphs, showing the graph is not random but taken from the Lancet's Masselot et al (2023) Excess mortality attributed to heat and cold: a health impact assessment study in 854 cities in Europe (Volume 7, Issue 4e271-e281 April 2023)
It is true the CO2 Coalition modified the graph, but only because the Lancet's version was so deceptive. The attached graph on the left was the Lancet's original. If you look at the x-axis of the Lancet's graph the 0-5 distance for warm deaths is stretched by 5X relative to that of cold deaths, giving the false impression cold and warm deaths are about equal.
The CO2 Coalition adjusted the X-axis to be honestly proportional so that the x-axis' 0 to 50 distance is equal for both warm and cold deaths.
That's the difference between our 'climate politics language'. The Coaltion speaks to truth while dishonest alarmists grifters like Dr. Genevieve Guenther prefer to smear anyone as deniers who disagree with her grifting. Dr. Genevieve is the real Science denier!
