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The next big climate scare: Counting climate change deaths

By Steve Goreham
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The next big climate scare: Counting climate change deaths
Around 1,000 Minnesota students skipped school to gather on the steps of the Minnesota Capitol on Friday, March 15, 2019, in St. Paul, Minnesota, as part of global protests by young people to demand that governments take swift and decisive action to fight climate change. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

The next big climate scare is on the way.

Advocates of measures to control the climate now propose that we begin counting deaths from climate change. They appear to believe that if people see a daily announcement of climate deaths, they will be more inclined to accept climate change policies. But it’s not even clear that the current gentle rise in global temperatures is causing more people to die.

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