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Road traffic accidents kill over a million people per year. I doubt global warming will ever kill people at anywhere near that rate. But for all that, we talk about global warming a lot more than road accidents.
Pneumonia kills over 100 million people each year (!?! actually more like 4 million per year).
I doubt global warming will ever kill people at anywhere near that rate.
In fact, since - as Freeman Dyson says - more people die from cold than from heat, global warming will probably reduce the overall death rate:
According to "this report about the study "Causes for the recent changes in cold- and heat-related mortality in England and Wales":
The study says that changes in heat-related mortality in the UK are smaller for warming than for cooling over the past 4 decades by two orders of magnitude.
However, one study produced different findings in the USA - here.
Where did you get that number? Wikipedia puts it at 4 million per year.
Oops - over 100 million people each year contract pneumonia.