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Article #4947Re: Record-breaking heat scorches southern Australia
From: Kelly Bert Manning
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:23
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:23
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Fran (Fran.Beta@gmail.com) writes: >> >> > Death from heat is of course terrible. But statistically, more people >> > in the world die from cold related causes then from heat. Human beings >> > appear to be able to deal with the natural heat on the Earth, even >> > heat waves, better then they can with the cold. > > You're the one with the blinkers. Let's examine your own source: Check out the CIA world fact website. Canadians, on average, live 2 (men) to 3 (women) years longer than our our unfortunate southern cousins, despite our "harsh northern winters". The USA economy spends more per capita on health care than any other country, yet despite all the money they are neither the healthiest or the longest lived population in the world. Meanwhile, in the USA, Lake Mead has resumed it's relentless march to the bottom of the reservior. Some folks just can't catch the clue about climate change, even with a 30 meter "bath tub ring" staring them in the face. http://www.usbr.gov/lc/region/g4000/hourly/mead-elv.html http://www.arachnoid.com/NaturalResources/ http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/nebraska/sw-drought-2003-photos1.html http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1724411,00.html
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X-Google-Thread: f44bc,a383e2743d94607c X-Google-Thread: 105543,a383e2743d94607c X-Google-Thread: 10607c,a383e2743d94607c X-Google-Thread: 10df0c,a383e2743d94607c X-Google-Attributes: gidf44bc,gid105543,gid10607c,gid10df0c,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.acm.uiuc.edu!news.xcski.com!ncf.ca!FreeNet.Carleton.CA!bo774 From: bo774@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Kelly Bert Manning) Newsgroups: sci.skeptic,aus.invest,sci.environment,aus.politics Subject: Re: Record-breaking heat scorches southern Australia Date: 2 Feb 2009 05:23:28 GMT Organization: The National Capital FreeNet Lines: 25 Message-ID: <gm600g$kca$1@theodyn.ncf.ca> References: <49834a63$0$1592$4c5ecfc7@fe3.usenet.com> <d58d17ac-5027-4735-aee1-84cfebc542a3@p20g2000yqi.googlegroups.com> <7145fd72-03e7-4a22-8d29-86ca2c1593fc@b38g2000prf.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: bo774@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Kelly Bert Manning) NNTP-Posting-Host: smeagol.ncf.ca X-Trace: theodyn.ncf.ca 1233552208 20874 134.117.136.48 (2 Feb 2009 05:23:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: complaints@ncf.ca NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Feb 2009 05:23:28 GMT