#heat
#November: Towns in south-west #France roasted in “completely extreme” heat in the early hours of Tuesday, with overnight temperatures hitting 26.9C (80.42F).
Hot nights stress the body and stop people from sleeping. The number of tropical nights with temperatures above 20C – which can prove deadly for older people and those fighting off illness – has doubled or even tripled in most parts of southern #Europe.
#climate #health #heat #heatwave #Problem #future #earth #temperature #news #weather
#Humanity ushered in the end of mammalian dominance.
They do not use the planet's resources to sustainably expand their dominance, but only in the short term and only for their species and to allow their livestock to grow disproportionately.
In doing so, they destroy the necessary diversity and foundations of resilience that are able to cope with natural and self-induced changes.
They destroy both the basic biomass and the diversity on which it was based. All species are being decimated or have already been wiped out.
Instead, they use the resources for consumption, vanity, comfort and even worse for senseless wars.
We are leaving young people a completely destroyed, heated planet that will become a dance on a volcano for them.
The image above was created with the help of #AI. I didn't want to endanger a real teenager for a photo. Why am I using an image at all for my #warnings to humanity? You are the reason because you only like and share what has a picture and ignore text.
#future #earth #Problem #youth #society #mankind #climate #change #crisis #emissions #co2 #heat #politics #war #capitalism #economy #resources #warning #danger
The #Heat #Crisis Is a #Housing Crisis
"Humble told me that we talk about how sharply smoking increases lung cancer risks, up to 3,000 percent according to #government statistics. But, he added, “being #homeless increases your chance of dying from heat in Phoenix by 50,000 percent.”
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/climate/the-heat-crisis-is-a-housing-crisis.html
#health #humanrights #politics #environment #earth #emissions #climate #economy #fail #justice #news
Eugene Gates Jr. collapsed last year while delivering mail on a day when the heat index reached 113 degrees. A year later, his widow worries that it will happen again if something doesn't change.
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The USPS disciplined Eugene weeks before he died for taking too long on his route in the heat wave. Carla found out later #Heat Illness Prevention training he should have received was falsified by postal management
#Heat #inequality ‘causing thousands of unreported #deaths in #poor countries’
“Heatwaves are the deadliest type of extreme #weather but they don’t leave a trail of destruction or striking images of devastation. They kill poor, lonely people in rich countries, and poor people working outdoors in developing countries,” said Otto, who is also a senior lecturer in #climate science at the Grantham Institute of Imperial College #London. “In the last 13 months, there will be thousands and thousands of stories of poor people dying in heat that will never be told.”
#news #poverty #future #humanrights #earth #refugees #death #problem #health #humanity
#environment #toxic #wildfire #smoke #heat
The Guardian
Millions of Americans and Canadians are exposed to worsening air quality from ongoing wildfires and toxic smoke in California, Utah, Oregon, Idaho and Montana, as well as Canada.
- US government urged to declare wildfire smoke and extreme heat major disasters
Fourteen attorneys general petition federal emergency officials as millions in US under excessive heat advisories
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/17/extreme-heat-wildfire-smoke-disaster-fema
- Utah’s air quality gets worse as wildfire smoke moves in. Jul 16, 2024, 4:03 PM | Updated: 4:39 pm
- I'm going to be a Climate Change Refugee Photo: Salt Lake Tribune 2 Days ago. I'm down there.
#rain #heat #wave
JULY 11, 2024. THURSDAY
It's 104°F in Salt Lake City, and 84°F inside my apartment. I'm still doing fine and using my 'Surviving Heat Waves' methods.
The power has gone out in a number of units in the building where I live.
- From my windows I have seen people 'jogging' in the heat on the City sidewalks. Also, a couple with their baby in a baby carriage, without a thought of the high heat cooking their child's brain, and people walking dogs, also without a thought of the hot temperature on the concrete sidewalk and asphalt streets - burning the paws of the dogs.
Now, I'm going to take a cool water shower and bath- before the cool water is no longer cool.
Excessive Heat Warning. Utah
National Weather Service
- EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT SATURDAY NIGHT. Dangerously hot conditions with high temperatures forecast between 100 and 105 degrees each day. 100 and 105 degrees each afternoon. Overnight recovery will be poor with minimum temperatures forecast in the mid upper 70s.
WHERE...The Wasatch Front. (This is where I live.)
