claim: Higher temperatures, we’re told, will be deadly—killing “thousands to tens of thousands” of Americans
evidence: Each year, about 800,000 people die from causes attributable to urban air pollution, 1.8 million from diarrhoea resulting from lack of access to clean water supply, sanitation, and poor hygiene, 3.5 million from malnutrition and approximately 60,000 in natural disasters.
category: Scientific consensus on climate change