Danish climate change expert Bjorn Lomborg said Sunday that global warming has saved the lives of more than 282,000 babies between 2001 and 2019, citing a 2024 study. Nature magazine.
Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Centre, attention More people die each year from cold than from heat, which explains why rising temperatures result in fewer net deaths.
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“Warming temperatures mean more heat and more babies will die from the heat, but it also means less cold and fewer babies will die from the cold,” he wrote.
The mainstream media has ignored the study, but overall, “rising temperatures saved 282,251 babies in 29 poor countries between 2000 and 2019,” added Lomborg, who is also the former director of the Danish government's Institute for Environmental Assessment in Copenhagen.
the studyIts purpose is to “determine the extent to which climate change has contributed to the burden of neonatal mortality to date.” Nature He stressed that newborns are particularly vulnerable to temperature extremes and the need to protect them from extreme heat and cold.
“Newborns are inherently physiologically and anatomically vulnerable to exposure to extreme temperatures, making them particularly susceptible to adverse health effects,” the report said, including “an immature thermoregulatory system and a much narrower optimal range for body temperature than adults.”
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For that research, Nature Using data from 2001 to 2019, we focused on 29 low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) with the highest infant mortality rates.
In all study locations, Nature They found that 4.3% of all newborn deaths between 2001 and 2019 were related to “suboptimal temperatures,” with heat-related deaths accounting for 1.5% of all deaths on average and cold-related deaths almost twice as many (2.9%).
The researchers estimate that 32% of heat-related newborn deaths from 2001 to 2019 were attributable to climate change, equating to 175,133 additional newborn deaths.
Conversely, over the same period, climate change reduced the burden of cold-related newborn deaths by an average of 30 percent. Nature This represents a total reduction in newborn deaths of 457,384.
Based on these figures, a total of 282,251 babies have been saved thanks to climate change.
