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Climate Change Is Causing Injuries Because It’s Nice Outside And People Go Play
It’s so utterly horrible. Nice weather leads to people going outside and hurting themselves while playing. And no one ever hurt themselves outside before CO2 hit 350ppm, you know
(Climate Progress) People of all ages — not just the elderly — are more at risk of death and emergency room visits as the earth warms, a recent study has found.
The study, published this month by researchers at Brown University and the Rhode Island Department of Health in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, focused on the population of Rhode Island. Researchers found that it didn’t need to be that hot for people to start visiting the ER in higher numbers — according to the study, a temperature of 75 degrees compared to 65 made heat-related emergency room visits increase by 3.3 percent. But, as it got hotter, the jump in visits was more acute: on days with highs of 85 degrees, ER visits jumped 23.9 percent compared to days with highs of 75 degrees. In addition, Rhode Island’s death rate increased by 4 percent on 85-degree days compared to 75-degree days.
So, again, all this confirms is that when the temps rise, people get outside. And many hurt themselves while doing things in the great outdoors, and even overheat themselves. Shocking! The study even mentions these notions, and points out that the age group is not the elderly, but those 18-64 most at risk.
But, of course
The study warned that, if climate change continues to drive temperatures up, Rhode Island’s residents “would experience substantially higher morbidity and mortality.” If, by the end of this century, days in Rhode Island become 10 degrees warmer — a projection that’s on the high end of climate models — the summertime death rate in the state would increase by 1.5 percent, or about 80 additional deaths per summer. In addition, the ER visit rate would jump by 25 percent, or an increase of about 1,500 visits every summer. And since other states — not just Rhode Island — are expected to see higher temperatures with climate change, the study’s results could serve to make residents around the U.S. wary of high heat.
First, there’s no proof of anthropogenic causation, and, second, seems like people in Rhode Island are rather wimpy.
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Source: http://www.thepiratescove.us/2015/08/28/climate-change-is-causing-injuries-because-its-nice-outside-and-people-go-play/
