# Pierre Masselot Back to [[Authors/@BjornLomborg/People/People|Lomborg People]] · [[Authors/@BjornLomborg/BjornLomborg-x-profile|@BjornLomborg]] · Topic: [[Topics/Climate Change Science and Policy Debate/Climate Change Science and Policy Debate|Climate Change Science and Policy Debate]] **Role:** Statistician/epidemiologist, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine ⚠️ (affiliation from the paper's author list, not re-checked) - Lead author of Masselot et al. (2023), "Excess mortality attributed to heat and cold: a health impact assessment study in 854 cities in Europe", *Lancet Planetary Health*, doi:[10.1016/S2542-5196(23)00023-2](https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(23)00023-2). Co-authors include Antonio Gasparrini. - Covers 2000–2019. After the Jul 2, 2024 correction: ~130,000 cold vs ~13,600 heat excess deaths a year (about 10:1). - This is the evidence behind Lomborg's "cold kills far more Europeans than heat" ([[Authors/@BjornLomborg/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - BjornLomborg on the Guardian, Heat Deaths and Cold Deaths (2026-07-03)|Jul 3 Guardian analysis]]).