[yorwba]

The article explicitly addresses this, adjusts US heat deaths upward using a comparable method to the European figures, and still finds that there are many more heat deaths in Europe.

E.g. from your first link:

> ... some researchers say the actual number is far higher. One study that examined data from the late 1990s to the early 2000s concluded that the average number of fatalities annually was roughly 10,000.

It's six times higher in Europe.

Also note that the hook is an elderly man dying when "His air-conditioner, set to 70, was blowing hot air. The temperature inside was nearly 110 degrees." Meanwhile in Berlin, I have no AC I could set to 21°C at all... Fortunately, annual highs so far have been below 39°C, but even that is hard to bear.