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  • Compare that outcome to the 55 people who reportedly died of pneumonia, respiratory problems and other cold-related illnesses in Bangladesh and Nepal when temperatures dropped to just above freezing last winter.

    The Weather Isn't Getting Weirder Anne Jolis 2011

  • Unusually for such documents, it also highlighted ways in which the country could benefit from milder winters and drier summers, such as fewer cold-related deaths, better wheat crops and a more attractive climate for tourists.

    Flooding rated as worst climate change threat facing UK 2012

  • On the brighter side, there are estimates that even though, worldwide, heat-related deaths have increased, cold-related deaths have decreased.

    Washington D.C. weather in the year 2076 Don Lipman 2011

  • Let's put aside for the moment the fact that rising temperatures are likely do more good than harm on this score, preventing so many cold-related fatalities that the net effect of global warming is likely to be a total of about 200,000 fewer people dying each year.

    Does Helping the Planet Hurt the Poor? Bj 2011

  • We have been here about an hour and a half and we haven't made our live shots, because we are having problems with the dish that appear to be cold-related.

    CNN Transcript Jan 8, 2010 2010

  • This, he says, is because many more people would be spared early cold-related deaths than would be at risk from heat-related respiratory fatalities.

    Bjørn Lomborg: the dissenting climate change voice who changed his tune 2010

  • Packers officials said 12 to 15 fans were treated for minor cold-related problems.

    Frozen Packers fans bitterly cold, disappointed 2008

  • While summers in the UK became warmer in the period 1971 - 2003, there was no change in heat-related deaths, while annual cold-related mortality fell by 3% as winters became milder - so overall fewer people died as a result of extreme temperatures.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • "The onset of winter means freezing nights, cold-related diseases and more problems for the children"

    Kids Freezing To Death In Kabul. A U.S. Christian President Ignores Them? 2009

  • In his carefully-reasoned and politically-bipartisan book Cool It (Alfred Knopf, 2008), the "skeptical environmentalist" Bjorn Lomborg notes that if global warming continues unchecked through the end of the century there will be 400,000 more heat-related deaths annually; there will also be 1.8 million fewer cold-related deaths, for a net gain of 1.4 million lives.

    Michael Shermer: Chill Out: An Economic Triage for Global Climate Change 2009

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