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In other words, average temperature is higher is mostly because cold days are shorter and warmer a lot more than hot days is hotter?


I don't know about "shorter", but basically, the cold days are decreasing faster than the hot days are increasing.

This is still a problem! But the people who run around screaming about heat waves causing mass casualty today are simply not credible commentators. Far more people die of cold than heat in any given year, so a reduction in cold days will tend to net out to a gain in human life, not a loss.




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