Posted on 10/31/2018 8:04:48 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Harvesting crops or building a house in the Florida sun is grueling work, and a new report shows that it’ll only get more miserable and unsafe for workers as climate change sends temperatures soaring.
By at least one safety standard, it was too hot for Floridians to do very heavy labor (like digging with a shovel) for at least an hour a day almost every single day this summer.
Unworkable, a report from Public Citizen and the Farmworker Association of Florida released Tuesday, spells out the risks to the state’s large population of outdoor workers, particularly construction and agricultural workers.
“You talk to farmworkers and they know it’s getting hotter. They feel it and they’re worried,” said Jeannie Economos, the environmental health project coordinator for the Farmworker Association of Florida.
They have no laws - at the state or national level - to protect them from heat stress, which is predicted to become more of a problem as global temperatures climb.
“Many employers won’t do the right thing willingly,” he said. “We need stronger protection for workers, or workers will be in ever greater danger as the heat increases in Florida and around the country.”
In Saudia Arabia, outdoor work is banned from noon to 3 p.m. for three months of the year to protect workers from dangerous conditions. Public Citizen’s Managing Director David Arkush said rising global temperatures could spread that policy around the globe — maybe even to Florida.
“We would be losing most of the outdoor labor in the south during the summer by the end of the century,” he said. “In the hottest places, including probably South Florida, even nighttime work could become too hot.”
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
I suggest thy protest against the REAL culprit: WEATHER!
Damn you weather! Things are getting colder in some months and hotter in others!!!
women and minorities hardest hit.
“You talk to farmworkers and they know it’s getting hotter. They feel it and they’re worried,” said Jeannie Economos
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Does that sound scientific to anybody?
I heard a similar report recently, which said Arizona will be uninhabitable within 75 years. Same reason, that it will get so hot as to be too hot for humans.
What will they do when the temperatures start dropping from decreased solar activity?
Yes, but I count my dog’s tail wags to predict the stock market.
In Saudia Arabia, outdoor work is banned from noon to 3 p.m. for three months of the year to protect workers from dangerous conditions.
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Saudi Arabia is a desert. There’s no clouds and no shade.
Think of all the land in Northern Canada and Siberia that will open up for agriculture.......
They are wrong. Solar activity is declining, temperatures will drop, not rise.
Global Warming comes from the Sun.
The Sun is cycling down again.
We will wish we could make enough CO2 to warm the planet when it happens.
“Global warming”, taken at face value with sensible (*cough*) data, predicts an average 0.02°C increase per year - nothing which “outdoor workers” would ever notice amid normal statistical deviation. There might be an observable consequence over a _century_, but certainly not causing “golly, it’s hot this summer”.
As nearly all of us on this forum already are aware... if one looks at the actual data from weather recording stations outside of urban areas in the United States... the vast majority show that there has been no statistically meaningful warming trend in the past few decades. Records from the 1930s tend to show warmer temperatures than we have now. And the records from the 1970s tend to show cooler temperatures. This is because the climate on this planet has always had cyclic trends that seem to be related largely to activity on that big yellow ball that appears in the sky every morning and our proximity to it.
I’d sooner believe that folks are no longer as well acclimated to their surrounding environments (thanks to modern conveniences such as central heating and air-conditioned homes and vehicles) than the atmosphere is rapidly changing due to climate-change.
“You talk to farmworkers and they know it’s getting hotter. They feel it and they’re worried,” said Jeannie Economos
Of course the only solution to this problem is to bring in millions of new foreigners from Equatorial areas of the world so the new influx of ‘gimmedats’ can hold an umbrella over the current field workers.
Maybe all those climate-change-believing yankees and old folks who can’t stand the heat should move back up north, where the climate is more suitable? We are often told that air conditioning is accelerating climate change. Why do we allow so much of it in Florida?
I climber poles in S Fla for 30 years.
Wasnt any hotter in 72 than it was in 2002. I think the word acclimated was left out of this report.
Yes, it's hot in Florida. It's always been hot.
And it is surrounded on three sides by water, which makes it very humid.
The humidity is what makes the outside work insufferable and unbearable, not the heat.
I'm from Arizona and it's very hot there too. But with no humidity to speak of, it is much more pleasant than Florida at the same summertime temperatures.
Just more scare mongering by the climate change enablers.
That and, traditionally, cultures in the tropics and deserts have the sense to get out of the sun during the hottest parts of the day if there’s no reason to be in it. It’s how the phrase “mad dogs and Englishmen” was coined. They were the only things out and about as the sun beat down on them in the afternoon.
At the time when slaves were harvesting the rice, temperatures would be so hot that the slaves would be sterilized from the heat.
So, the Sun would beat down on them from above, and reflect off the water from below.
How about a 12-hour Daylight Savings Time shift, instead of that miserly 1 hour?
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