The UK Health Security Agency, UKHSA, have announced there were an estimated 1,504 heat-associated deaths in England last summer, apparently lower than they had originally forecast.
What are “heat-associated deaths”, you might well ask. I doubt whether any death certificates had heat recorded as the cause of death! How can they be so certain that the number is 1,504, and not 1,503 or 1,505?
Strangely, the UKHSA has only been publishing these statistics since 2024. People might therefore reasonably presume that this is just another scare story to sell Net Zero. After all, they never publish excess death statistics for spring and autumn, when the death rate is much higher.
Weekly data shows a steady decline in deaths throughout the summer. The table below is compiled from ONS weekly registration of deaths data (bear in mind that registration is around a week after the date of death). As weekly registrations are affected by bank holidays, I have calculated averages per working day i.e., excluding bank holidays:
There is a little blip upwards in Week 18, w/e May 2nd, which almost certainly is a catching up of the backlog that built up over Easter. Also, another blip up in Week 35, which included the August Bank Holiday, probably due to extra registrations crammed into the four-day week.
But the overall trend is unmistakeable. From the end of winter onwards, there is a steady, uninterrupted decline in daily deaths, until they resume their
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What about deaths due to cold?
Note the steady fall in winter deaths as the country became wealthier and could afford heating. What will happen from now on?
How about the excess mortality due to the experimental biologicals they all took. There are so many. Never knew anyone dying from the heat. Is this a joke?
The August blip makes no mention of the FY1 changeover day…(correlation doesn’t equal causation of course)
Testing.
Testing.
“1,504 …………..* – associated deaths in England”
*Insert as best supports the current thing : CoVid; Climate Change; Trump; poverty; inequality; LGBQWERTY- phobia; Reform UK Councils; White Privilege; racism; Islamophobia; Far Right.
So tragic. All the foreign holidays they bravely survived throughout their lifetimes then they’re brutally killed by North Atlantic British weather. It’s a genocide.
And yet we see articles in DS telling us that we need “public health”, it just needs to be done better. Good luck with that. While “saving lives” (whatever that means) might seem to be a worthy objective for the state, it seems to me it always ends badly.
What even does “public health” mean? If I am healthy, and my neighbour is not, is the public healthy?
Ah well you’d produce an AVERAGE you see – the Met Office can help with Meaningless Averages if you’re struggling 🙂
According to the met office, it all depends on the current health of the couple who lived 30 miles from you and who died in the 1990s.
If hotter weather is a killer why is it our rates of death are not markedly lower than in similarly poor warmer places.
That final chart:
Excess winter deaths and five-year central moving average…
(my emphasis)
That means the 2018/19 season average figure is based on the five seasons 2016/17 to 2020/21. Didn’t something a bit unusual happen in 2020? No. Not heatwaves.
tHe PanDEMiC yOU idiOT!
😉
My daughter’s two baby tortoises came fully out of hibernation for the second time in their lives a week ago. Yesterday they were moved from their hibernation box into a lovely outdoor enclosure, which is a 1.5m2 space under a palm tree surrounded by rocks and various overhangs so they can’t climb out and have lots of hiding places and sources of warmth through the night. After five long months, motionless, Suzuki and Kawasaki are now racing around, living up to their names, enjoying the warmth. And lettuce. 😎
Life thrives when it is warmer, and struggles when it is colder. —–If you torture data long enough it will confess to anything, and that “anything” right now is that heat is bad and we must tackle global warming, so the data will be tortured till it aligns with that agenda.
If they were really concerned that heat kills so many people, our hospitals wouldn’t be heated like greenhouses.
Just another scare story …..
Ah. That will be The Greenhouse Effect. Which is why they open the windows to let the heat out.
Surely the death rate would be higher in the southern Mediterranean countries where it is hotter for longer? Except it isn’t….. Awkward.
Looks to me like model tweaking to get the result you wanted.
Without Heat being cited on the death certificate, this is just more utter Bull spewing from the ONS, no doubt backed up by the morons on ‘More or Less’, like the MET office these organisations are corrupt.
It would be about as accurate as ‘Covid’ being mentioned on the death certificate. The rules about who could provide the death diagnosis and what they could diagnose changed significantly in 2020.
Where do UKHSA get their dates of declared ‘heat episodes’? I’ve previously looked for this from the Met Office to produce similar analyses.