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Abstract: This paper estimates the effects of humidity and temperature on mortality rates in the United States (c. 1973–2002) in order to provide an insight into the potential health impacts of climate change. I find that humidity, like temperature, is an important determinant of mortality. Coupled with Hadley CM3 climate-change predictions, I project that mortality rates are likely to change little on the aggregate for the United States. However, distributional impacts matter: mortality rates are likely to decline in cold and dry areas, but increase in hot and humid areas. Further, accounting for humidity has important implications for evaluating these distributional effects. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

The author reflects on the paper of Chandler. She remarks to find the paper difficult but fascinating particularly Chandler's argument that Sterne draws on an-ongoing tradition of argue on the fate of the soul after death, the "vehicular hypothesis." She added that the general theory of vehicularity was part of the eighteenth-century study of pneumatology or pneumatics (spiritual being), and was raised to offer philosophic arguments for the continued existence of the soul after death.