claim: The report confidently claims that when temperatures rise, “the reduction in premature deaths from cold are expected to be smaller than the increase in deaths from heat in the United States.
evidence: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes that it is difficult to make valid projections of heat-related illness and death under varying climate change scenarios and that heat–related deaths are preventable, as evidenced by the decline of all-cause mortality during heat events over the past 35 years.