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Re:Five billion people will face extreme heat at least a mon... by bryanlarsen on Sunday September 10, 2023 @08:26PM (#37461455)
" the massive deaths predicted by the IPCC will probably not occur."

250,000 deaths by 2050 is massive deaths? That's about 5% of what COVID caused, and that's not generally acknowledged as mass death.

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Re:Five billion people will face extreme heat at least a mon... by pdonis on Sunday September 10, 2023 @09:31PM (#37461813)
> 250,000 deaths by 2050 is massive deaths? That's about 5% of what COVID caused, and that's not generally acknowledged as mass death.

If this is your position, it's all the less reason to spend trillions of dollars on CO2 mitigation.

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