Mortality from extreme cold and heat

wow. heat seems to be the killer, but there are probably more homes with reliable heat than a/c.

 

Two factors of critical importance here:
1) You can mitigate cold with insulation, shelter, other humans, and fire. Even a very young kid knows how to get warm.
2) There are very few ways to mitigate heat. All of them require water or lots of electricity. Without those, only inaction in the shade becomes the last option...and you still need lots of water. Few kids are trained for inaction (unlike a lot of adults who seem to have it mastered).

 

Not as sexy as people getting dependant on a government that goes on vacation and leaves them to die (France, Russia) news paper dealths but.OP study as mentioned in LA times.

Cold weather is much deadlier than extreme heat, study says - LA Times

That is 5.4 million due to cold, 0.3 million to heat. This is one of the headlines but most of the time when thousands die from cold it just isn't news.
Deaths from cold 'to hit 2,500' | Daily Mail Online

 

I appreciate that our species has adapted hunter/gathers from the Arctic circle to the tip of South America. Industrialized, we have lived nearly pole-to-pole. But today our populations are dependent upon a few domesticated flora and fauna who may have had environmental tolerance breed out of them. Commercial turkeys come to mind as does Lysenkoism, a 1930s Soviet attempt to adapt wheat to grow in Siberia. A few crop failures and we'll be back in the 1950s and before when famine was in the news.

Bob Wilson

 

i sometimes wonder what would happen if we went to the supermarket, and there was no food.

 

Bob Wilson

 

In a dynamic world warmer is better for crops than colder. Both cause stress, but warmer is much easier.

In a warmer and higher carbon dixide world water and fertilizer become the limititng factors. Cross breeding (artificial selection) and direct genetic modification (gmo) Here is a study of creating drought resistant corn.
Cross-bred crops get fit faster : Nature News & Comment

Hostile environment, an aquaponic greenhouse may be the solution for the future.
Aquaponic farming saves water, but can it feed the country?

Perhaps a shift away from those crops. In a hot dry world rice might need to be cut back, but other crops can substitute. Scientists have salt water grown potatoes, and maybe as little ice age farmers used windmills to drain fields, future warm area farmers can use wind turbine electricity to irrigate fields of spuds with sea water.
Humble spud poised to launch a world food revolution | Science | The Guardian

lol. Greedy science for seeds, probably at monanto, but most of these agricultural types want to help feed the world with more people and a changing climate. We are not likely to have the massive crop failures they had during the little ice age.

The story is not so happy for the wild types though. Plenty of food and more people and bigger farms mean more forests cut down, and smaller habitats. Add climte change which would have spiecies migrate, but can't because there are towns and farms in the way, and it looks like extinctions will go up.

 

they are also trying to patent seeds and keep small farmers from having access to them. but that's probably not the scientists.

 

It is very popular in the bay area
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/25/technology/in-busy-silicon-valley-protein-powder-is-in-demand.html

 

In addition, my eyes see:

• Paris
• London
• Moscow
• Chiro
• Israel or Gaza(?)

Bob Wilson