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From: mrtravel on 28 Jul 2006 00:24 The Reid wrote: > Following up to Mxsmanic > > >>>More people die from cold than hot. >> >>No, more people die from hot weather. Hot weather is the most lethal >>of natural weather phenomena. > > > what time of the year do most deaths occur in the northern > hemisphere? Does it differ in the southern part of the planet?
From: mrtravel on 28 Jul 2006 00:26 Mxsmanic wrote: > Dave Frightens Me writes: > > >>No it is not. Hypothermia is a much greater risk that hyperthermia. > > > Right now officials in California are complaining that they don't have > enough space to contain all the dead bodies from the heat wave. You > don't often hear that in winter, even when the cold is very extreme. > Can you cite this? I am in California, and I seemed to have missed this on the local news.
From: mrtravel on 28 Jul 2006 00:28 JohnT wrote: > > What extreme cold is there in Southern California? it did snow once in San > Diego, briefly, but that was in 1912. It snows quite a bit in SoCal. You must know about those big things that rise thousands of feet above sea level? You know, mountains.
From: mrtravel on 28 Jul 2006 00:29 Dave Frightens Me wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:06:20 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > >>Dave Frightens Me writes: >> >> >>>No it is not. Hypothermia is a much greater risk that hyperthermia. >> >>Right now officials in California are complaining that they don't have >>enough space to contain all the dead bodies from the heat wave. You >>don't often hear that in winter, even when the cold is very extreme. > > > That is a very unscientific view. I think he is overestimating deaths in CA due to heat this summer. Of course, storing bodies is easier in the winter. You can just leave them outside.
From: mrtravel on 28 Jul 2006 00:30
Tchiowa wrote: > > Miguel is indeed well respected on travel ngs. But that doesn't alter > the fact that the statement above was 100% right: People in hot > climates without air conditioning regularly complain about the heat. And people in cold climates don't complain about the cold? |