July 28, 2025 • 13 mins
The Controversy of Heat vs. Cold: Debunking Fake News on Weather Deaths
In this episode we critically analyze the claim that extreme heat is America's deadliest weather threat. The script argues that recent narratives prioritizing heat dangers over cold are politically manipulated, citing decades of studies and CDC data showing cold weather as a far more significant killer. Through a discussion on human adaptation, technology, and historical evidence, the episode challenges the validity of updated definitions and statistics regarding heat deaths. It highlights a broader pattern of fear-driven misinformation in media and politics, urging viewers to question and verify scientific claims.
00:00 Introduction: The Fake News on Weather
02:13 Debunking the Heat Death Myth
03:00 The Science Behind Cold vs. Heat
05:04 Human Adaptation to Heat
06:26 Technological Adaptations to Cold
09:43 The Bigger Picture: Manipulation of Data
12:17 Conclusion: The Real Threat of Cold
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The Tenth Man (00:11):
The fake news now says the most dangerous weather
is hot weather.
After years of saying the exactopposite, they're now telling a
lie and we're letting them getaway with it.
Today on the 10th, man, they sayheat is now the deadliest
(00:35):
weather threat in America.
Don't worry about fentanyl orhomicide.
Don't worry about freezing todeath in a Chicago alley in
February.
Nope, just good old sunshine.
Apparently we're all one degreeaway from death according to
sources like A, B, C News whosay this/ Across the country,
(00:58):
extreme heat causes more deathseach year than any other weather
event.
across the country, extreme heatcauses more deaths each year
than any other weather event.
Wow.
Thank you.
Scientists at a B, C.
Well, somewhere out there, asnowstorm just rolled its eyes
while it quietly killed 10people.
(01:18):
But sure, let's all panic over asweaty afternoon in Phoenix.
Let me ask you something.
If he is so deadly, why is everypoor culture on earth living in
it?
Why do people retire to Floridaand not from it?
(01:43):
And why don't we even have aphrase like he heated to death.
We do have, he froze to death.
It's the exact dramaticalopposite.
Well, the reason we don't isbecause it's cold that kills and
heat doesn't.
Coal will kill you slowly orinstantly, quietly, and most
(02:06):
important cold will kill you allby itself.
Because people ostensibly do dieof heat, but it always takes a
little bit of effort and a fewbad decisions.
So today, once again, we'regoing to dismantle this lie, he
(02:30):
said weirdly, because why do wehave to, why is it that the news
spreads lies like this?
Shouldn't they be the ones.
Telling the truth and debunkingthe lies, but these lies come
out again and again and we justaccept them.
So we'll put it to rest.
(02:50):
We'll talk biology, climate,politics, and the bigger pattern
of deception that it all fitsinto.
So let's go.
The whole idea that heat isdeadlier than cold.
It's not just false, it'sinsultingly false.
(03:11):
For decades, studies have shownthat cold kills more people than
the heat does, and by widemargin.
In fact, if there's such a thingas climate change and global
warming, it's going to savelives five to 10,000 a year just
in the United States.
Because one major internationalstudy examined 74 million deaths
(03:35):
in 13 countries, and it foundthat the cold caused not just
more deaths, it caused 20 timesas many deaths as heat does.
And the Centers for DiseaseControl CDC data for over a
decade showed the same thing.
(03:56):
Until one day the narrativeneeded to have a rewrite.
And that's, that's your CD, C.
So what changed all of a suddendid the science?
Well, our understanding ofscience might change, but the
science does not.
So what changed was thepolitics.
(04:19):
Sometime around 2015 to 2021, wewatched a slow narrative shift.
Government agencies redefinedwhat counted as a heat death.
Hmm, sound familiar, and mediaoutlets started repeating a new
sound bite.
Heat is the deadliest weatherphenomenon, but the problem is
(04:42):
it's simply not true.
You know, science and biology,those are not political and they
can pretend they are all theywant, but the fact is it just
can't be true that heat is moredeadly.
And that simple science andsimple biology.
And why?
(05:04):
Well, it's because we humans areheat adapted creatures.
We're adapted to live where it'shot.
Not the opposite.
We evolved or were created.
Take your pick in the heat.
Our earliest ancestors,according to science, they were
discovered in Africa by theleaky, that original, what was
(05:27):
her name?
Was it Judy?
I forgot her name.
But she was discovered inEastern Africa, not Norway, not
Finland.
And then how about this?
What's the definition of amammal is a creature with hair,
isn't it?
But among all the mammals, weare the ones who are virtually
(05:50):
hairless.
Virtually hairless mammals arevery few.
It's us and the elephants.
Name another one.
I'm sure there's another one.
I can't think of one though.
There's no elephants in Norwayeither.
And we're one of the very fewanimals on earth that sweat.
Sometimes people talk aboutanimals that don't sweat as if
(06:10):
they're exceptions.
No, we are the exception.
We're the exception because wewere not created for the cold,
and we learned to survive.
Winter learned.
And it wasn't through evolution,it was through technology.
(06:33):
Have you ever thought aboutthat?
The first human invention wasn'tthe wheel or the spear.
It was fire.
The artificial creation of heat,that's a huge thing that we take
for granted, and it tells youeverything because surviving in
the cold.
It requires an externalsolution.
(06:56):
Now think about these.
We have fire, fuel, shelter,insulation, clothing, a form of
insulation.
All of those are inventions.
They're all technology, andtheir technology is so old we
forget that it's technology.
We think our clothes are toexpress ourselves.
(07:17):
Clothing is to keep us warmbecause we decided to move to
where it's cold.
And the solution to adapting toheat, well, you just stop
working in the daytime, you cansit down, you can pour water on
your head, and you didn't haveto invent the water.
(07:38):
You just get water that existsand pour on your head.
You don't need air conditioningto survive the heat.
That technology is very recent.
All you need is a hose, asponge, or a bottle of water.
The poorest people in the world,the ones who have no
electricity, let alone airconditioning, they live in hot
(08:00):
climates, not cold ones, andthey're not dying on mass.
But you take a poor person in acold climate and remove their
source of heat, they're gone.
Now, I think we have to be alittle bit blunt here.
The people who die in the heatare usually doing something
(08:21):
dumb.
They'll go out of their way tomove to Arizona, live in a
trailer.
They don't fix the AC or theyshut it off to save money, or
they decide to go mow the lawnat 2:00 PM.
Or they're trying to workconstruction in 105 degree heat.
And even then they can stop, youknow, the Apache and the Navajo
(08:44):
who lived there, they weren'tthat dumb.
All you gotta do is stop, take abreak, then you can cool down
and you can live.
And that's where the cold isentirely different, the cold,
the real killer, because coldkills people who are doing
nothing wrong.
All you have to do is sit toolong in an unheated house or the
(09:06):
elderly people who lose powerduring a winter storm.
'cause cold doesn't require youto exert yourself to do
something dumb cold will justshow up, and if you're
unprepared, you're dead.
You see, this is the realscience.
And actually it isn't evenscience, is it?
(09:27):
It's just common sense.
It's what we could all observewithout ever studying what we
call science I.
And if nobody had ever told youdifferent, you never would've
thought anything else.
Which brings us to the biggerpicture.
Because this heat death hype,the idea that hot weather kills
(09:48):
people more than cold.
It's not just an isolated fib,it's part of a pattern that
we've seen before.
Oh, yeah.
We saw a lot of it.
How about COVI deaths?
Remember when anyone who diedwith COVID was counted as dying
of COVID?
I, it's the exact same thingover again, isn't it?
(10:11):
Cause of death.
So back then it didn't matter ifit was a motorcycle crash.
I think we all knew somebodylike this, didn't we?
Or late stage cancer, if theyfound COVID in the person, it
became a COVID death.
It went into the tally.
(10:32):
And what did that do?
Well, it inflated the COVIDnumbers, which in turn justified
lockdowns, and it drove fear.
Oh, they love fear, don't they?
And this kept the grants flowingthe money.
And there you go.
That's what it always is, isn'tit?
Follow the money.
(10:53):
Now they're just doing the samething with heat.
You die of heart failure in inJuly.
It's a heat death.
You were dehydrated and you fella heat death.
You fainted in a parking lotwhen there was a warm breeze and
got run over by a bus.
Well call the EPA.
It's another heat death.
(11:15):
Same formula.
It's just a different cause.
Different cause, but the samemanipulation of data and these
lies are all over.
The other one is gun deaths inkids.
We're told that guns are thenumber one killer of children.
Absolutely false.
It's absolutely false.
Meanwhile, toddlers are drowningin pools.
(11:37):
There is an epidemic of that,and young adults are overdosing
on fentanyl.
There's an epidemic of that, butthe headlines don't say the
truth.
It doesn't tell us the things weshould be looking out for
because the truth doesn't movepolicy, but fear does.
Are you starting to see apattern?
(11:59):
How about all these terms thatreally have no meaning anymore?
Humanitarian crisis, extremeweather.
Just meaningless terms anymorebecause they redefine reality to
match their politics.
And anyone who pushes back.
Well, you're now the sciencedenier, So we have to harp on
this because it's a blatant liethat they're getting away with,
(12:22):
and it's not just about heat orcold, it's about trust.
If they'll lie to you about whatweather kills people, they'll
lie to you about anything.
They'll scare you intocompliance, into handing over
control of your car, yourthermostat, your kitchen stove.
And it's all to protect you froma heat wave that mostly kills
(12:43):
people who ignore common sense.
And then when the power gridfails during a January ice
storm, don't expect aretraction.
So no heat isn't the deadliestweather threat.
It's just the most politicallyconvenient one.
Cold kills more people as it hasfor centuries.
(13:04):
But heat gets the headlinesbecause heat gets the money.
And the next time they tell youthe science is settled, check
who paid for it.
This is the tens man.
And if you're tired of fakestatistics, manipulated
headlines and fear-based policy,share this episode.
Because truth doesn't trend, youhave to push it.
The fake news now says the most dangerous weather
is hot weather.
After years of saying the exactopposite, they're now telling a
lie and we're letting them getaway with it.
Today on the 10th, man, they sayheat is now the deadliest
(00:35):
weather threat in America.
Don't worry about fentanyl orhomicide.
Don't worry about freezing todeath in a Chicago alley in
February.
Nope, just good old sunshine.
Apparently we're all one degreeaway from death according to
sources like A, B, C News whosay this/ Across the country,
(00:58):
extreme heat causes more deathseach year than any other weather
event.
across the country, extreme heatcauses more deaths each year
than any other weather event.
Wow.
Thank you.
Scientists at a B, C.
Well, somewhere out there, asnowstorm just rolled its eyes
while it quietly killed 10people.
(01:18):
But sure, let's all panic over asweaty afternoon in Phoenix.
Let me ask you something.
If he is so deadly, why is everypoor culture on earth living in
it?
Why do people retire to Floridaand not from it?
(01:43):
And why don't we even have aphrase like he heated to death.
We do have, he froze to death.
It's the exact dramaticalopposite.
Well, the reason we don't isbecause it's cold that kills and
heat doesn't.
Coal will kill you slowly orinstantly, quietly, and most
(02:06):
important cold will kill you allby itself.
Because people ostensibly do dieof heat, but it always takes a
little bit of effort and a fewbad decisions.
So today, once again, we'regoing to dismantle this lie, he
(02:30):
said weirdly, because why do wehave to, why is it that the news
spreads lies like this?
Shouldn't they be the ones.
Telling the truth and debunkingthe lies, but these lies come
out again and again and we justaccept them.
So we'll put it to rest.
(02:50):
We'll talk biology, climate,politics, and the bigger pattern
of deception that it all fitsinto.
So let's go.
The whole idea that heat isdeadlier than cold.
It's not just false, it'sinsultingly false.
(03:11):
For decades, studies have shownthat cold kills more people than
the heat does, and by widemargin.
In fact, if there's such a thingas climate change and global
warming, it's going to savelives five to 10,000 a year just
in the United States.
Because one major internationalstudy examined 74 million deaths
(03:35):
in 13 countries, and it foundthat the cold caused not just
more deaths, it caused 20 timesas many deaths as heat does.
And the Centers for DiseaseControl CDC data for over a
decade showed the same thing.
(03:56):
Until one day the narrativeneeded to have a rewrite.
And that's, that's your CD, C.
So what changed all of a suddendid the science?
Well, our understanding ofscience might change, but the
science does not.
So what changed was thepolitics.
(04:19):
Sometime around 2015 to 2021, wewatched a slow narrative shift.
Government agencies redefinedwhat counted as a heat death.
Hmm, sound familiar, and mediaoutlets started repeating a new
sound bite.
Heat is the deadliest weatherphenomenon, but the problem is
(04:42):
it's simply not true.
You know, science and biology,those are not political and they
can pretend they are all theywant, but the fact is it just
can't be true that heat is moredeadly.
And that simple science andsimple biology.
And why?
(05:04):
Well, it's because we humans areheat adapted creatures.
We're adapted to live where it'shot.
Not the opposite.
We evolved or were created.
Take your pick in the heat.
Our earliest ancestors,according to science, they were
discovered in Africa by theleaky, that original, what was
(05:27):
her name?
Was it Judy?
I forgot her name.
But she was discovered inEastern Africa, not Norway, not
Finland.
And then how about this?
What's the definition of amammal is a creature with hair,
isn't it?
But among all the mammals, weare the ones who are virtually
(05:50):
hairless.
Virtually hairless mammals arevery few.
It's us and the elephants.
Name another one.
I'm sure there's another one.
I can't think of one though.
There's no elephants in Norwayeither.
And we're one of the very fewanimals on earth that sweat.
Sometimes people talk aboutanimals that don't sweat as if
(06:10):
they're exceptions.
No, we are the exception.
We're the exception because wewere not created for the cold,
and we learned to survive.
Winter learned.
And it wasn't through evolution,it was through technology.
(06:33):
Have you ever thought aboutthat?
The first human invention wasn'tthe wheel or the spear.
It was fire.
The artificial creation of heat,that's a huge thing that we take
for granted, and it tells youeverything because surviving in
the cold.
It requires an externalsolution.
(06:56):
Now think about these.
We have fire, fuel, shelter,insulation, clothing, a form of
insulation.
All of those are inventions.
They're all technology, andtheir technology is so old we
forget that it's technology.
We think our clothes are toexpress ourselves.
(07:17):
Clothing is to keep us warmbecause we decided to move to
where it's cold.
And the solution to adapting toheat, well, you just stop
working in the daytime, you cansit down, you can pour water on
your head, and you didn't haveto invent the water.
(07:38):
You just get water that existsand pour on your head.
You don't need air conditioningto survive the heat.
That technology is very recent.
All you need is a hose, asponge, or a bottle of water.
The poorest people in the world,the ones who have no
electricity, let alone airconditioning, they live in hot
(08:00):
climates, not cold ones, andthey're not dying on mass.
But you take a poor person in acold climate and remove their
source of heat, they're gone.
Now, I think we have to be alittle bit blunt here.
The people who die in the heatare usually doing something
(08:21):
dumb.
They'll go out of their way tomove to Arizona, live in a
trailer.
They don't fix the AC or theyshut it off to save money, or
they decide to go mow the lawnat 2:00 PM.
Or they're trying to workconstruction in 105 degree heat.
And even then they can stop, youknow, the Apache and the Navajo
(08:44):
who lived there, they weren'tthat dumb.
All you gotta do is stop, take abreak, then you can cool down
and you can live.
And that's where the cold isentirely different, the cold,
the real killer, because coldkills people who are doing
nothing wrong.
All you have to do is sit toolong in an unheated house or the
(09:06):
elderly people who lose powerduring a winter storm.
'cause cold doesn't require youto exert yourself to do
something dumb cold will justshow up, and if you're
unprepared, you're dead.
You see, this is the realscience.
And actually it isn't evenscience, is it?
(09:27):
It's just common sense.
It's what we could all observewithout ever studying what we
call science I.
And if nobody had ever told youdifferent, you never would've
thought anything else.
Which brings us to the biggerpicture.
Because this heat death hype,the idea that hot weather kills
(09:48):
people more than cold.
It's not just an isolated fib,it's part of a pattern that
we've seen before.
Oh, yeah.
We saw a lot of it.
How about COVI deaths?
Remember when anyone who diedwith COVID was counted as dying
of COVID?
I, it's the exact same thingover again, isn't it?
(10:11):
Cause of death.
So back then it didn't matter ifit was a motorcycle crash.
I think we all knew somebodylike this, didn't we?
Or late stage cancer, if theyfound COVID in the person, it
became a COVID death.
It went into the tally.
(10:32):
And what did that do?
Well, it inflated the COVIDnumbers, which in turn justified
lockdowns, and it drove fear.
Oh, they love fear, don't they?
And this kept the grants flowingthe money.
And there you go.
That's what it always is, isn'tit?
Follow the money.
(10:53):
Now they're just doing the samething with heat.
You die of heart failure in inJuly.
It's a heat death.
You were dehydrated and you fella heat death.
You fainted in a parking lotwhen there was a warm breeze and
got run over by a bus.
Well call the EPA.
It's another heat death.
(11:15):
Same formula.
It's just a different cause.
Different cause, but the samemanipulation of data and these
lies are all over.
The other one is gun deaths inkids.
We're told that guns are thenumber one killer of children.
Absolutely false.
It's absolutely false.
Meanwhile, toddlers are drowningin pools.
(11:37):
There is an epidemic of that,and young adults are overdosing
on fentanyl.
There's an epidemic of that, butthe headlines don't say the
truth.
It doesn't tell us the things weshould be looking out for
because the truth doesn't movepolicy, but fear does.
Are you starting to see apattern?
(11:59):
How about all these terms thatreally have no meaning anymore?
Humanitarian crisis, extremeweather.
Just meaningless terms anymorebecause they redefine reality to
match their politics.
And anyone who pushes back.
Well, you're now the sciencedenier, So we have to harp on
this because it's a blatant liethat they're getting away with,
(12:22):
and it's not just about heat orcold, it's about trust.
If they'll lie to you about whatweather kills people, they'll
lie to you about anything.
They'll scare you intocompliance, into handing over
control of your car, yourthermostat, your kitchen stove.
And it's all to protect you froma heat wave that mostly kills
(12:43):
people who ignore common sense.
And then when the power gridfails during a January ice
storm, don't expect aretraction.
So no heat isn't the deadliestweather threat.
It's just the most politicallyconvenient one.
Cold kills more people as it hasfor centuries.
(13:04):
But heat gets the headlinesbecause heat gets the money.
And the next time they tell youthe science is settled, check
who paid for it.
This is the tens man.
And if you're tired of fakestatistics, manipulated
headlines and fear-based policy,share this episode.
Because truth doesn't trend, youhave to push it.
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