{"id":16270,"date":"2024-09-15T20:14:08","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T20:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=16270"},"modified":"2025-08-22T22:22:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T22:22:23","slug":"climate-we-dont-know-the-cause-of-death-but-it-was-definitely-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2024\/09\/15\/climate-we-dont-know-the-cause-of-death-but-it-was-definitely-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate: We don’t know the cause of death but it was definitely climate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Orange County coroner\u2019s office says it is investigating whether the heat or something else killed the young attorney.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Disneyland half marathon runner dies after voicing concern about the heat | CNN<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story goes to note the cause of death is unknown – and then links the death to climate change, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And this one: Disney Marathon Runner Passed Out From Heat Exhaustion Day Before Collapsing And Dying At Race<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first paragraph: “While authorities are still investigating what caused a Disney runner<\/a> to die, it’s possible that heat played a factor in the young man’s death. Temperatures were in the triple digits on the day that he died<\/strong>. In fact, he even complained about the heat shortly before his death.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Except those statements are not true. In fact, the run started at 5 AM when the temperature was in the low 70s. He had complained about running in the heat on days BEFORE the race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story says he went into cardiac arrest – which is not how heat exhaustion -> heat stroke normally work – particularly since it was only in the mid-70s at the time this occurred<\/em><\/strong> – a critical fact omitted from the news story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The race began at 5 AM<\/a><\/strong> on September 8, 2024<\/a>: Temperature was 71 degrees at race start. Most half marathon runners would be done within 2 hours, or by about 7 am – when the temperature was in the low to mid-70s, NOT TRIPLE DIGITS as reported by the media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anaheim September 8, 2024 Historical Weather (California, United States) – Weather Spark<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Temperatures only reached triple digits on September 6, two days before the race, and that was in the afternoon, long after morning events had finished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cause of death is suspected to be cardiac arrest: Tragic Loss at Disneyland: Remembering Caleb Graves and Reflecting on Theme Park Safety | Mickey News<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It appears unlikely his death in mid-70s temperatures was caused by climate change. As in zero chance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN also falsely reported this story: Disneyland half marathon runner dies after voicing concern about the heat | CNN<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of November 8, 2024, there has been no follow up news report disclosing the cause of death, as determined by autopsy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s always climate if it is bad news. We don’t need facts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-communications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}