In fact, the situation may be the reverse. Although people who die in a heat wave are likely to make the national news, colder winters kill more people than warmer summers, as two recent studies have shown. C rise in mean temperature would cut U.S. deaths by about 40,000 per year. For children ages 1 through 14, death rates fell from 870 per 100,000 in 1900 to 38 in 1981. Improved survival of children with severe conditions cannot account for the increase.
Some physicians think the increase after two more decades is real, alarming, and unexplained.
Hydrocarbons are increasingly available, despite record consumption, and technology for their use is increasingly clean and efficient. NW, Washington, DC 20001. Global energy rationing proponents stress efficiency as the silver bullet for global warming. Further, no agreement imposed by force can be perpetually effective-unless the relative strength of the adversaries remains unchanged throughout the succeeding years.