Hannah Barnes
speaker
509 appearances
22 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2011
last heard Oct 2013
Hannah Barnes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Here, Professor Jarman quotes from the email he sent the Telegraph, which is now in the public domain.
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Robin Proctor asks, is there more to this than a slightly more subtle version of shock headline, 50% of doctors are below average?
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And by the same token, you'll get other hospitals that are above average, a point that's picked up by another more or less listener, Michael Hinson, who says quite correctly, I presume that there must also be 14 or more hospital trusts with fewer deaths than expected.
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Yeah, it's nonsense.
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And that's why the HSMR shouldn't be used to infer any number of actual avoidable deaths.
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But Sir Brian Jarman, who pioneered this statistical device, says that it can be really useful for flagging up problems.
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That's right, but it's not just me.
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Various experts in the field and even concerned charities have to spend a lot of their time correcting overblown statements like these.
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And a surprising critic of that number, Alex Randall works for the Climate Outreach and Information Network, a charity which aims to raise awareness of climate refugees and their needs.
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So you might think he'd be shouting the same alarming numbers from the rooftops, but he's not.
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And even if all 20 million people had been displaced by climate change, they're unlikely to be looking to set up home in a new country.
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Yeah, and what we're really talking about here is people who have to leave their homes because their lives and livelihoods are being adversely affected by climate change.
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So not just because of sudden natural disasters, but because of a slow creep, changing weather systems, say, or rising sea levels.
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But many experts don't expect this to cause mass migration.
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Alex Randall explains why.
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It doesn't.
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The UN told me it cannot comment in any way on the accuracy of a figure we did not produce.
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Quite.
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Now, the figure is the work of a scientist called Norman Myers, who's based in Oxford in the UK.
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Yeah.
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