Russia is using energy as a weapon

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In the past, changes in energy prices have had a small effect on deaths. But this year’s cost increases are remarkably large. We built a statistical model to assess the effect this price shock might have

Within countries, more people die in colder winters. But when comparing countries to each other, winter deaths rise more in warm places than in cold ones

The final element, however, is much less certain: the relationship between energy costs and deaths. We estimate this using our statistical model, which predicts how many people die in each winter week in each of 226 European regions. The model applies to the-27 countries, except Malta, plus Britain, Norway and Switzerland.

In recent decades consumer energy prices have had only a modest impact on winter mortality, because they have oscillated within a fairly narrow band. In a typical European country, holding other factors constant, increasing the electricity price from its lowest level in 2000-19 to its highest raises the model’s estimate of weekly death rates by just 3%. In contrast, reducing the temperature from the highest level in that period to the lowest increases them by 12%.

Two other variables absent from long-run data could also affect death rates this year. Many countries have introduced or expanded cash-transfer schemes to help people pay energy bills, which should reduce deaths below the model’s expectations to some degree. And covid-19 could either raise mortality—by making it even more perilous to shiver through cold weather—or lower it, because the virus has already killed many of the old, frail people who are most vulnerable to the cold.

 

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How about the immense damage US & NATO have inflicted on the Middle East, North Africa & Ukraine. It’s cost to their populations & the poor globally? Do you have a model that attempts to calculate it? Or would that be too revealing of The Economist hypocrisy & lack of morality?

Moreover, this figure is calculated under the condition that no more bad things happen to the West.

Real loser of Ukraine war isn’t US or Russia but actually European Union countries & their loss will make them dependent on US for many decades and who knows maybe this is why Joe Biden administration incited this war because before war, EU was competing with US as new Superpower

success to brave PUTIN!

Blame The US . Nato and EU. It's all about the money laundering.

Las muertes en el mundo. Inoculaciones experimentales CO corona V virus ID identificación digital.

Why are you not 'modeling'UK first? 8.4 million UK households will be in fuel poverty from April, says National Energy Action Post on 01st Dec 2022/nea org uk ⚠️Your titles and recaps have become mostly hateful towards Europe, IMHO. How regrettable !

You are destroying societies with flexible labor laws, how are you different from the Nazis? also your Nobel Prize-winning capitalist economists can never discover this.

Why wouldn't we help that russians by spreading fear and black scenarios, right?

Yeah, nothing unethical about these numbers.

Death by vaccine.

Good article. It would be useful if it added a view on the things people and gov’ts should/could do to mitigate these risks

Già in PAMDEMIA l’🇮🇹 ha avuto più morti, adesso anche con l’aumento dei costi dell’energia sarà un DISASTRO… Povera Italia tutto ciò, perché l’Ucraiana nel 1994 ha riconsegnato 1900 testate nucleari, perché gli USA e GB garantivano la sua INTEGRITÀ TERRITORIALE… dove sono?

And POTUS is using the lack of energy as a weapon…

Oh no. I love Italy. I want to go back to visit.

And POTUS is Hell Bent on destroying the Really Potent US Oil Industry.....figure that one out

Nice job manipulating that graph to make the difference seem more drastic than it is.

😯 Hasn't this been predicted before any decisions to finance a 'proxy war'? Have there been more 'pressing matters' for doing so? Or the geniuses thought that it can be overcome by 'more sanctions'?

The Economist inadvertently finds out why ESG is so dangerous.

Given average common sense, European countries should have recognized long time ago that dependence on Russian oil and gas could not end well, given average treacherous character of the Putin’s regime

Net zero is the weapon. It really refers to IQ

And vaccine uptake?

Jajaja

Shame on all of you who work for this publication and agenda.

and biden using ukraine army as his solders ..

As well as US is using Ukraine

Just announced here in Sunny EU Berlin by the German Dept of Trade & Industry (proper National quality state media ARD/ZDF). Third Country Britain due to ‚still ongoing‘ Brexit fun is now out of the Top 10 list of Germany’s Trade Partners for the first time in history – Cripes!

the species evolution model assumes the most rational use of resources. Public transport

I don't understand why is Europe so depending of Russia for gas, where are the nuclear plant on those developed countries...or did they all go green?

And the US is using Ukraine

Wealth release on the exit

I know of something else which is causing an increase in cardio vascular deaths.

No. Europe, and especially Germany, has been arrogant, stupid, and complicit in empowering Putin.

The US has used, energy, missiles, drones, nukes, political puppets, and 9/11 as weapons and nobody bats an eye. Your posts are biased.

Doesn’t work one way… it’s a two way lane.

What this tells me is that climate change is GOOD for human survivability as more deaths happen in the cold rather than heat…

They will do any mental gymnastics to blame anything other than the true reason for those deaths.

Of course, Russia will do so... Question is why Britain let it happen and lets the war drag on

Russia is causing a 26% rise in deaths due to cardiovascular causes?

more ded. final answer.

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Just what we need - more death-modelling..

What about non an low vaccinated countries? The outcome of the vaccinate-all-Strategie is not convincing

So what? This doesn't change what's right and wrong and what should or shouldn't be done.

This is such a stupid analysis.. Covid, Ukraine, pandemics. Etc.

Alternative title: 'Climate Extremists Are Killing Europe's Poor'

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