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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Maybe we are all dead already??? When I hear a leftist say anything, I feel like I am in Hell.
“And the kids on your lawn will be 90.”
And I’ll be shaking my cane at the little basta*ds.
1/5th of the way thru the 21st century.
So far we’ve seen increases of 0.5*C and 0.5”.
That extrapolates over 100 years to less than change we see in minutes.
I thought high temps ward off coronavirus?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I’ll just turn the AC up. /s
There’s also the danger of killer penguins driven mad by the heat which will start swarming the mid latitudes, eating everything in sight.
I have this new-fangled thing...an air conditioner. Thank God for Mr. Carrier!
Buy stock in air conditioner companies.
Just in time to save us from the next winter pandemic.
GLOBAL WARMING NOW!!
Appropriate since they’ll be raising cane(s) themselves.
BTW Aren’t we suppose to all be dead in 10 years?
Why bother buying stock in anything? The way they are acting now this killer virus that can survive anything is suppose to wipe us all out.
At least it will eliminate the virus
Some normal news for a change.
I’ll e dead, don’t care.
Can’t give tomorrows weather but can tell us what will happen in 80 years ,LOL
By the turn of what century they have been harping on this for the last 50 years!!
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