Posted on 03/25/2020 1:34:22 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
The number of people worldwide struggling with extreme heat and humidity by the end of the century could be more than four times as many as today if planet-warming emissions continue to rise, hiking economic losses and health costs, scientists have warned.
Spending on mental health, in particular, could soar as more families have trouble sleeping and working, and heat aggravates existing mental health problems, one of two new studies found.
"Heat and humidity extremes have real impacts on health and productivity," said Bob Kopp, director of the Institute of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences at Rutgers University, and an author of one of the studies.
"What our work shows is that there is a real increase in the frequency of these rare heat and humidity extremes, and limiting global warming is the best measure we can take to prevent them," the climate scientist told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Previous research has examined the potential increase in extreme heat days as the Earth's climate changes.
But Kopp's work also takes into account the effects of humidity, a factor that has a huge impact on comfort levels on hot days in places from Bangkok to Chicago.
Moist, humid conditions make it harder for people to sweat away excess heat, leading to health risks including heat stroke, which can kill or disable victims who go untreated, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
"If you look at deadly heat extremes, humidity matters a lot," Kopp said.
His research, published this month in the journal Environmental Research Letters, found that more than half a billion people are likely to be hit by heat stress above safe levels by 2100 if global average temperatures rise 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times.
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Spring and sunshine will stop the virus progress
That’s 80 years away. We only have 10 or 11 left, right?
OH NOES, WE’RE ALL GONNA’ DIIIIEEEE!!!!
Hey that’s great news. I think roughly 1.2 billion humans are locked up in their house now. The global warming of the future will help destroy viruses. Please be true ! We need global warming to save our lives and beat the viruses !!!
Back to this BS again
These people are insane. Where is the global warming? We need some!
I thought that was supposed to kill us all by the end of the last century. Maybe it was the ozone layer, melting icecaps, overpopulation, or pollution, something like that.
Blah, blah, BS.
That’s 80 years away. We only have 10 or 11 left, right?
= = = = = = = =
I will be 160 by then, wonder if I will still be told to stay inside????
Enough, all ready.
That’s what they’re telling us.
Wait a minute, we were all told we'd all be dead from global warming in 12 years...Now we have until the end of the century?
Bull sh*t in every direction.
“could affect”
or not ...
i can’t believe these fools are still pushing this propaganda when pretty much everyone is in semi-survival mode and is WAY more interested in securing a supply of toilet paper and Spaghettios and paying their mortgage than being interested in “climate change” and “global warming” ...
That is unless the next ice age starts by then.
Right, dangerous heat and humidity affects me every year because I’m old. So I turn on the air conditioner and grab s nice cold one.
Problem solved. Anyway in 2100 I will be almost 160 yrs old.
“Texas can be hot in the summer!” — WHO warns
And the kids on your lawn will be 90.
Universities should ban gas driven cars. Students should learn to adapt so when the graduate they will not need cars.
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