BOMBSHELL DATA: In a Warming World, Rising Cold Deaths Outnumber Heat Deaths 12 to 1

A new paper published in Current Problems in Cardiology takes a detailed look at how temperature—both hot and cold—affects mortality across the United States.  - Anthony Watts

Its goal is to estimate how many deaths are associated with “non-optimal” temperatures, and how social vulnerability influences those outcomes...
The most striking result is that cold weather remains by far the dominant temperature-related killer in the United States. 

The authors estimate that, on average, about 

• 72,361 deaths per year are attributable to cold temperatures, compared to only about 
• 6,129 deaths per year from heat...