flacaltenn
Diamond Member
Professor Sian Griffiths, president of the Faculty of Public Health, which sets and maintains professional standards in public health, said: "A high proportion of preventable illness and deaths in the UK is caused by people living in damp and cold housing.
"If we see much more of the cold weather of recent days, it is likely that as many as 50,000 people will die unnecessarily over this winter. This is a tragedy in terms of human life and also creates a huge - and preventable - strain on the NHS.
"The UK remains one of the worst countries in the world at coping with unseasonable low temperatures. Although the Government has shown commitment to tacking the problem, it has not given sufficient priority to such an important public health issue and its approach remains far too uncoordinated.
"All of us must be vigilant at the moment to look out for family, friends and neighbours who may be suffering. Often fatal illnesses develop two or three days after a cold snap has finished."
It is estimated that there are 8,000 extra deaths for every one degree Celsius the temperature is below the winter average.
Didya get that? 1degree of GW can SAVE up to 8000 people per year in GB ALONE..
Not exactly, fecalhead. You're just too retarded to understand that one degree of global warming is not the same as a one degree higher average winter temperature in Great Britain. It doesn't work that way. The global death toll from two degrees of global warming is going to be orders of magnitude greater than 8000 people per year, BTW, but of course, I know you're in denial about that too.
And of course, there is the issue that there are a number of countries that get much colder than Great Britain in the winter without any death toll. According to the Doctor being quoted in the article you quoted, the Brits are just kind of incompetent at dealing with really cold weather.
"The UK remains one of the worst countries in the world at coping with unseasonable low temperatures."
Oh NOOOOOO Princess.. Dont tell me weve wasted TONS OF journal space and years of our lives arguing about a GLOBAL AVERAGE warming that has ""no relation to average winter temperatures in GB"".. SO then by extension IT MUST HAVE NO BEARING ON AVERAGE SUMMER TEMPS IN AUSTRALIA where your bats are dying.
Must be a pretty useless number then if NO ONE can use it to assert weather events ARE GWarming.. But not as useless as you are Princess...