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Politics - Paris Heat Wave

France claims that the recent European heat wave (search) was responsible for the deaths of 3,000 of its countrymen. But for most of the summer, it has been much hotter in the American West, and no one can find even one body attributable to the heat.

https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,95260,00.html

As an environmentalist I didn't really like the tone of this story but as a Floridian I really like air conditioning.

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I actually found the figure a bit high. I wonder if they really did autopsies on each body or was it an assumption to exaggerate the facts?

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I too thought the numbers were quite high.  I have been reading some up on this and some of the deaths were elder people left at home in the heat.  So, some of the people there are blaming the polititians for cut backs in their health care reform.  But still, that many people, you would figure that they would be trying to do something to help the people, not just let them suffer.