anlomedad<p>Cool read <a href="https://diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2025/06/22/climate-change-causes-syntactically-complicated-sentences/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/20</span><span class="invisible">25/06/22/climate-change-causes-syntactically-complicated-sentences/</span></a></p><p>It's about a stranger thing in climate reporting:<br>Frederike Otto's WorldWeatherAttribution Center did a rapid study about this weekend's England/Wales heatwave – while it was still ongoing! <br>Another institute did a forecast for expected excess deaths from this heatwave! Also while the heat was still on. </p><p>And the Guardian writes about them both. </p><p>John's <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@micefearboggis" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>micefearboggis</span></a></span> humorous writing style sheds light on heat-related death statistics in general and on forecasting excess deaths in particular. <br>Also, the much-quoted figure of 60,000 European deaths in 2022 gets discussed. tldr: wrong number...<br> </p><p>I'll just add this:<br>The bottom of Euromomo <a href="https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> shows country "Z-scores", something to do with excess mortality. <br>Week 29 in 2022 got 40°C in London, and UK rose just above the line "substantial increase". <br>Gotta wait another 3 weeks to get data for week 26 2025 which John writes about.</p><p>German weekly data on dead people: <a href="https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Gesellschaft-Umwelt/Bevoelkerung/Sterbefaelle-Lebenserwartung/Publikationen/Downloads-Sterbefaelle/statistischer-bericht-sterbefaelle-tage-wochen-monate-aktuell-5126109.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">destatis.de/DE/Themen/Gesellsc</span><span class="invisible">haft-Umwelt/Bevoelkerung/Sterbefaelle-Lebenserwartung/Publikationen/Downloads-Sterbefaelle/statistischer-bericht-sterbefaelle-tage-wochen-monate-aktuell-5126109.html</span></a> <br> <br>I'll post a chart for summer weeks since 2000 later... <br><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/heatwave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>heatwave</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/statistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>statistics</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/DeStatis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeStatis</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Sterbef%C3%A4lle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sterbefälle</span></a></p>