The Times (One World) informs us that climate change is affecting our health, which is frightening news, but then does not use the opportunity to give any examples.

Allocating effort and resources effectively to combat or ameliorate the effects of climate change requires that we conduct balanced cost benefit analysis. Many commentators fail to list any benefits of climate change alongside predicted costs. For example, one remembers the deaths caused by French unpreparedness for the heatwave in 2003 as a major news item but one does not read that fewer people die of cold in milder winters. The study UK Health Impacts Of Climate Change found that "heat-related deaths could in-crease to around 2,800 cases per year. This is likely to be offset by milder winters leading to a fall in cold related winter deaths of up to 20,000 cases per year".

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