While the angry drama queen who apparently enjoys the GIGO left wing news outlets and focuses only on the heat island of Phoenix, the facts are that cold weather kills more people than heat does.
From Grok 4.5-
“Cold weather causes substantially more deaths than hot weather, both globally and in most regions studied.
A major 2021 global analysis in The Lancet Planetary Health (covering data from dozens of countries) attributed roughly 5.1 million deaths per year to non-optimal temperatures. Of these, about 8.5% of all deaths (≈4.6 million) were cold-related and only 0.9% (≈489,000) were heat-related—a ratio of roughly 9:1.
Key points from the evidence:
• Most temperature-related deaths occur on moderately cold days rather than during extreme freezes or heat waves. Cold days are far more common than extremely hot ones in most climates, so the cumulative burden is higher even though the relative risk per day can be steeper for extreme heat.
• Similar patterns appear in regional studies (e.g., Europe, England & Wales, multi-country analyses): cold excess deaths typically outnumber heat excess deaths by large margins (often 10:1 or more in older data).”
