Chilling Effects
Astral Codex Ten Podcast
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The Effects of Winter Hard Attacks on Mortality
Everyone says that global warming will worsen mortality from heat. But then why don't we see any effect from excess winter hard attacks in very cold places like stockholm or siberia? Over all, i'm not convinced of this one either. It's acute study to this effect by olisems and frost lincoln post modelling this as a pool of susceptible individuals in veta comas. Their experiment finds some limited support for this hypothesis. I think the idea is something like, if an extreme weather event kills lots of people one year, the next year, extreme weather events will kill fewer than normal because a lot of vulnerable people are already dead.
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