Scientists Attempt to Tie Stroke to “Climate Change”

by William M. Briggs | Science is Not the Answer

In my free and it-don’t-cost-nuthin’ class notes Breaking the Law of Averages (pdf), I have a homework question which goes something like this: Explain why, no matter the goodness of our hearts or the extreme depths of our caring, we will never remove the Leading Cause Of Death.

If you haven’t seen this before, then do pause for a moment before reading further. See if you can figure it out.

The reason is simple. Right now heart disease is the leading cause of death—in the once United States, anyway. In countries where the elite in the USA meddle, there are differences. But never mind. Cancer is close behind heart disease. Suppose tomorrow they come up with an ask-your-doctor-is-profitol-is-right-for-you pill that cures heart disease. I mean, it really does work, and nobody (who takes it) dies from heart disease.

The leading cause of death will then be cancer. Indeed, there will be a dramatic and sudden increase in cancer deaths all over the country. So many new cancers deaths will arrive that even celebrities will be employed to Raise Awareness Of Cancer.

Hands will be wrung. Propagandists will frown and look serious. Researchers will spring into action and write grants galore to show why everything from Aardvark piss to Zagnut consumption is linked to or associated with the surge in cancers. We will have more wee Ps shoved in our faces than at a San Francisco “pride” parade.

When the answer is obvious: if you can’t die from heart disease, you’re going to die from something else.

And that something else will likely be cancer. Cancer will become the Leading Cause Of Death. If it isn’t cancer, it will necessarily be something else. You can never eliminate the Leading Cause Of Death.

It may also be stroke. Consider how the covid panic killed off a lot of old people, especially in mandated medical maniac localities like New York. Aged folks who ordinarily would have died from heart disease were classed as dying from covid, and whether those diagnoses will all correct or not, the old were indeed culled at much greater rates than usual for about two and a half years. Maladies like CHF and other forms of bad tickers didn’t marry well with covid (or with flu).

We’d therefore expect a relative increase in other forms of death after the panic, given the older population was reduced during it. Cancer was somewhat constant before and during the panic. I haven’t seen any numbers since, but I wouldn’t be surprised to find an uptick there. Nor with stroke, which is usually the number three killer.

Which, at last, brings us to our headline of the day: “Global Stroke Burden Continues to Rise, With Climate Change Gaining Influence”.

…the link between stroke and climate change-related factors—like ambient temperature and air pollution—appears to be getting stronger…

Does it.

The continuing rise in global stroke burden indicates that approaches to managing the problem need to change, including by moving away from common risk-based efforts that have the medical community focusing on individuals deemed to be at highest risk, [Valery Feigin] argued…

Prior GBD analyses have shown that the prevalence of cardiovascular diseases, including stroke, increased steadily between 1990 and 2019, with an overall slowing of the decline in CVD-related mortality—and increases in some parts of the world—over time. Moreover, a previous stroke-related analysis with data through 2019 demonstrated that stroke remained the second leading cause of death in the world behind ischemic heart disease.

And just what happened in 2020? Read Full Article >