Extreme cold kills more people than leukemia, homicide and liver disease |
| The bitter chill isn't just an inconvenience. It could kill you. A 2007 study by Olivier Deschenes and Enrico Moretti found that "the number of annual deaths attributable to cold temperature is 27,940 or 1.3% of total deaths in the US." Extreme cold turns out to be deadlier than extreme heat. Hot weather kills, bu [… |