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2006-07-26 Europe

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Posted by tu3031 2006-07-26 07:58|| || Front Page|| [11124 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It's well established that cold weather kills far more people than hot weather. But then that wouldn't fit the Kyoto/AGM meme, so it's not news - aka agiprop peddling.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2006-07-26 08:14|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/] 2006-07-26 08:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Funny how, in the USA, this would be heaped on the doorstep of the federal government (think Katrina). In France, it's ho-hum, business as usual, 15,000 dead no problemo.

Posted by gromky 2006-07-26 08:36|| 2006-07-26 08:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Funny how, in the USA, this would be heaped on the doorstep of the federal government...

Not if a Dem was president, like during the Great Chicago Heat Wave of 1995. "In 1995 there were no uniform standards for determining a "heat related death," so officials had to develop them. Edmund Donoghue, Cook County's chief medical examiner, used state-of-the-art criteria to report 465 heat-related deaths for the heat wave week and 521 heat deaths for the month of July....But perhaps the best measure of heat deaths comes from another figurethe "excess death" ratewhich counts the difference between the reported deaths and the typical deaths for a given time period. According to this measure, 739 Chicagoans above the norm died during the week of 14 to 20 Julywhich means that Donoghue had been conservative in his accounts."
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/443213in.html

Posted by Jese Gleresh1086 2006-07-26 10:06|| 2006-07-26 10:06|| Front Page Top

#4 The article fails to mention that there is also a doctors strike going on. Gotta love socialist solidarity.

Posted by DoDo 2006-07-26 12:43|| 2006-07-26 12:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Strike? Heat deaths? How is this possible? I thought that socialized medicine salved ALL of a society's problems. Well, that's what Barbara Boxer told me!

Posted by Secret Master 2006-07-26 15:39|| 2006-07-26 15:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Er, I mean "solved."

Posted by Secret Master 2006-07-26 15:39|| 2006-07-26 15:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Life is beautiful to a certain degree.

Posted by Celsius 2006-07-26 16:41|| 2006-07-26 16:41|| Front Page Top

#8 #6 SM - I think #5 was right. ;-p

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2006-07-26 18:45|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com] 2006-07-26 18:45|| Front Page Top

#9 This situation clearly calls for a picture of Martha and the Vandellas wearing berets.

Posted by ryuge 2006-07-26 20:23|| 2006-07-26 20:23|| Front Page Top

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