By Sharon Furlong
Even though Bjorn Lomborg indicates towards the end of his article (Dire climate change warnings overlook facts, Viewpoint, July 9) that climate change has other variables that are destructive and must be examined, your overall commentary, and especially the sentence toward the end stating global warming has probably saved more lives, maybe even 100,000 lives, leaves this reader in little doubt about his overall position. Allow me to counter with this:
“A study led by Monash University scientists published last Wednesday in The Lancet Planetary Health gives a comprehensive evaluation of heat deaths around the world from 2000 to 2019, a period when the global average temperature rose by nearly a full degree Fahrenheit. It attributes about 637,550 deaths during each of those years to high heat, including about 224,000 deaths per year in Asia, 78,000 in Europe and 19,000 in the United States.”