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Re:EU saw 53,000 excess deaths in July amid record heatwave:... by thunky on Friday September 23, 2022 @09:38PM (#32959014)
Great insight.

The article says "thousands", which makes it difficult to determine how many of the reported excess deaths were due to the heat.

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Re:EU saw 53,000 excess deaths in July amid record heatwave:... by Schroedingersat on Saturday September 24, 2022 @12:07AM (#32959663)
It's not making any claim about any particular deaths having any particular cause.

That's what excess deaths means.

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Re:EU saw 53,000 excess deaths in July amid record heatwave:... by thunky on Saturday September 24, 2022 @09:25AM (#32962376)
> It's not making any claim about any particular deaths having any particular cause.

It is, and so are you. From TFA:

led to thousands of heat-related deaths across Europe

So asking how many thousands seems like a reasonable question.

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Re:EU saw 53,000 excess deaths in July amid record heatwave:... by Schroedingersat on Sunday September 25, 2022 @09:07PM (#32978222)
Yes. There were thousands of directly heat related deaths. You're welcome to look up all the disparate sources rather than concern trolling.

The article is about the 53,000 excess deaths which would imply there was either an undetected major disaster centered around the hotter regions of europe during a record heatwave, or that it's worth investigating what the causal links were.

At no point is it reasonable to try gaslighting people into somehow thinking it was cold as an anti-eu and anti-science dog whistle.

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