I posted a comment to Judith Curry's (@curryja) blog about the deaths in Oregon. Her reply, attached, was that more died in Texas last winter. Darn, I guess out here we should have tried harder. #PNWheatwave @MichaelEMann #PNWheatwave2021 pic.twitter.com/KMEkqaQXV8
— David Appell (@davidappell) July 1, 2021
Thursday, July 01, 2021
Overwhelming Empathy
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I'm glad you're through it. Hopefully some saner temps for the rest of the summer.
56 million people died in 2020.
Why worry about anything less?
/sarcoff
Thanks. It's been pleasant since.
Your subsequent post shows that the regional death toll from the heat wave in OR, WA, & BC was over 600. Pretty close to the TX winter storm toll of 700. But ... TX's population is almost twice as high as OR, WA, and BC combined. So on a per-capita basis the death toll from PNW heat was twice as high.
Judith Curry should be numerate enough to understand that.
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