More chicken little malarkey from the global warming scaremongers.
What a bunch of cr**. How much did they get paid for this study?
” sweltering in temperatures of more than 26C (78.8F)”
Sweltering at 78.8F?
In Texas, that’s called “balmy”.
you have to be a total marx-sucking dope to be on the “committee for climate change”.
And yet our stupid governments keep pushing electric utilities to shut down coal plants and keep push forward on renewable energy sources.
Coal produces cheap electricity and renewables produce ludicrously expensive electricity.
What is the primary cause of people dying in heat waves?
It is that people have had their electricity shut off because of non-payment or they would not run the air conditioning because they were afraid of high electric bills.
Why is electricity expensive? Well DUH!
If the Libs are really worried about people dying they should get out of the way of new coal fired and nuclear power plants. A market flooded with new electric plants will bring down the price of electricity and people will be able to heat and cool their homes with out breaking their budgets. Cheap electricity saves lives.
Yes, unfounded hysteria on climate effects, yet curiously not one thought about the millions of untreated illegals that are entering this country, each day with increasingly more complex medical problems.
What hospital opens their windows? The proper ventilation system in a hospital or in patient multi story health care facility is not the same as typical commercial building or residential systems. First of all there is no return air system. It works with outside air at the intake going across the coils and the cooled sir distributed throughout the ventilation system. No air return is done as a hygiene measure. You don't want virus and bacteria in your air. The building is slightly pressurized and that pressure is released through entrance doors and the elevator shafts.
The biggest thing that hurts hospitals is under sizing the capacity of the A/C plant itself as an initial cost cutting measure in construction. In a typical US hospital we're likely talking anywhere from 300-1000 tons of cooling needed depending on how large the facility, what type of equipment is operating in the way of electronics, and if adjoin office buildings are hospital physical plant dependent. In other words adding say a CT Scan machine, etc would add to heat load. The UK is likely adding equipment but not increasing their tonnage capacity in cooling.
Heat loads on these buildings by outside weather factors have not gone up. Many things can substantially increase or decrease the heat load though such as overcast skies, closing curtains on the side of the building the sun is hitting allows for significant lower temps.
The biggest risk to a hospitals A/C isn't global warming. It's power failures that are the threat and most generator can not cover the large power capacity to run the units. After about 12 hours of no A/C in a hospital with a concrete floor the floors begin to sweat. That too is dangerous. But if the unit itself break down or units and need several days to repair them that generally can be remedied within about 12 hours by bringing in a flatbed tractor trailer with a portable chiller on it. Most hospitals have set up to allow for this remedy in the US.
This article makes a little bit more sense once you realize few buildings the UK have A/C.
Or you could turn up the air conditioning a notch.
Finding a way to blame the ills of socialized medicine on climate change.
These bureaucrats must have given themselves an orgasm.
The Telegraph: Aborted Babies Incinerated To Heat UK Hospitals
Coming from the south, I’m always amazed at how cold Europe is during the summer months.
I guess 78 is hot to them where I’m comfortable at 90.
Fascinating. Notice what’s missing?
Any documentation of increased heat waves in Britain over the last few decades.
I don’t know enough to say they aren’t happening, but it’s really odd they don’t bother to put in statistics showing it is. The assumption is apparently that “everybody knows” the whole world is getting hotter, therefore UK is, therefore UK hospitals are.
And you know what they say about assumptions.
The environment is suffering damage that could be irreversible global warming, the greenhouse effect, the melting of the polar ice caps, the rising sea level, hurricanes with terrible social occurrences that will shake life on this planet.
I believe this idea has a strong connection with reality. I dont think we have much time. Fidel Castro said in one of his speeches I read not so long ago, tomorrow could be too late, lets do now what we need to do.
I believe it is time that we take up with courage and clarity a political, social, collective and ideological offensive across the world a real offensive that permits us to move progressively, over the next years, the next decades, leaving behind the perverse, destructive, destroyer, capitalist model and go forward in constructing the socialist model to avoid barbarism and beyond that the annihilation of life on this planet.
Hugo Chavez, at the 16th World Festival of Youth and Students, held in Caracas on August 8-15, 2005
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Bin Laden blasts US for climate change
CAIRO Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has called for the world to boycott American goods and the U.S. dollar, blaming the United States and other industrialized countries for global warming, according to a new audiotape released Friday.
In the tape, broadcast in part on Al-Jazeera television, bin Laden warned of the dangers of climate change and says that the way to stop it is to bring the wheels of the American economy to a halt.
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Charles Manson, the notorious cult leader, has broken a 20-year silence in an interview from his prison cell to warn the world of an impending apocalypse due to global warming.
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Everyones God and if we dont wake up to that theres going to be no weather because our polar caps are melting because were doing bad things to the atmosphere, he said.
The automobiles and fossil fuels are destroying the atmosphere and we wont have air to breathe.
“...unless housing and hospitals are adapted to cope with the heat,...”
Don’t they have AC across the pond? Just wondering...
More likely odds Hospitals at Increasing Risk of Overheating Due to Ray Guns from Little Green Men from Mars.
The enviro-liars are getting desperate.
Global Warming on Free Republic
Don’t global warming scaremongers know hospitals exist in places like Florida? AND even existed BEFORE air conditioning?
Wasn’t it just a few months ago that pensioners in the UK were having a difficult time with electric bills and were riding public transportation all day so they could stay warm?