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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Things will be difficult for the US but Europe is in far worse shape and nobody is really talking about it. Electricity prices have gone parabolic there- just in time for winter. I understand individual households get some sort of credit towards the bill but many will not be able to afford to heat their homes. [b]Some will die.[/b] Businesses do not get any energy credit and many, especially small businesses, will be forced to close due to not being able to pay the bills. Business closures/job losses combined with record energy prices into winter does not sound like a good combination. [/quote]

Some/ many.

Thank you Mr. Biden for running the most incompetent administration in recent US history.

I guess we have to be thankful we're not Afghanistan.
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Do you know how many Europeans died this summer from heat?  [/quote]

It is well known that far more people die of cold than heat.

Take this article describing a Lancet study showing that each year there were 75 times more excess deaths from cold than excess deaths from heat in England and Wales in the last 20 years or so.

"Each year in England and Wales, there were on average nearly 800 excess deaths associated with heat and over 60,500 associated with cold between 2000 and 2019, according to a new study published in The Lancet Planetary Health."

https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/news/2022/both-heat-and-cold-increase-risk-death-england-and-wales-rates-vary-across[/quote]

I've read your article and I think one of us is misreading it.  It seems insane to say that each year in England, 60000 people die of cold-related deaths.  Wow!  They need to do something!

For reference, in the US, "Overall, a total of more than 19,000 Americans have died from cold-related causes since 1979, according to death certificates."

https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-cold-related-deaths#:~:text=Overall%2C%20a%20total%20of%20more,1979%2C%20according%20to%20death%20certificates.

What are they including in "cold-related deaths"?  Exposure and frostbite?  Pneumonia?  Because having a cold house is uncomfortable but not fatal - whereas not having air conditioning in your house in a heat wave is fatal, that is how thousands of people in Europe died this summer.  [/quote]

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