Tuike wrote:Argentina issues health warnings amid record heat -france24
Suffering under the worst heat wave in more than six decades, Argentina has issued health warnings to nine southern and central provinces, the National Meteorological Service, said Saturday. Buenos Aires residents awoke Saturday to temperatures of 36 C with a predicted high of 38 C, which would be the highest in February in 61 years.
Outcast_Searcher wrote:
So if you're elderly or sickly and you're used to thinking of 85 degrees F as very hot, then yeah, 100 degrees F would be seen as pretty nasty.
theluckycountry wrote:Outcast_Searcher wrote:
So if you're elderly or sickly and you're used to thinking of 85 degrees F as very hot, then yeah, 100 degrees F would be seen as pretty nasty.
The temperature is not that important, I have worked in 40-C temps and as long as its dry you sweat and cool down. High humidity is the killer. I have had to down tools at 9am, 32-C but 75% humidity. It's a simple fact of biology that most all of the media fail to report, that the human body in hot conditions is cooled by the evaporation of perspiration. If the air around you is nearly saturated with water this can't occur and what would be the latent heat of evaporation, stays in your body.
Drinking heaps of water is useless as well, unless it's super chilled. Though this is the typical media remedy for hot days.
theluckycountry wrote:Australia has just come out of 3 years of LaNina, the longest, or second longest such cool/wet period in our history. Mid April here and 4AM, the temp is 18-deg C outside, very warm for this location this time of year. I quite enjoy it actually, I get to ride my bike is moderate temps before the sun comes up (no traffic) and I don't need to rug up. But I know what next summer will be like, like a bloody oven. If there wasn't air conditioning I'd be digging a cellar by now.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Tuike wrote:scorching temperatures have ... been widespread across China. On Tuesday, the country saw temperatures as high as 42.4°C (108°F) in Yuanyang, in the southeast – only 0.3°C from the country-wide record for April, according to Herrera. On Monday, more than 100 weather stations in 12 provinces broke their April temperature record, according to climatologist Jim Yang. Although not record-breaking in most cases, the heat has also been prevalent – and deadly – across South Asia. Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bangladesh have all seen temperatures topping 40°C (104°F) for many days.[/i]
theluckycountry wrote:Just follow the meme, and don't forget, buying expensive corporate bottled water is safer for you.
AdamB wrote:theluckycountry wrote:Just follow the meme, and don't forget, buying expensive corporate bottled water is safer for you.
Maybe in provincial areas and countries like yours, or places deliberately torpedoed by local politicians underserving their communites like Flint Michigan or Jackson Mississippi. I recommend not living in places where the politicians themselves allow this stuff to happen, be it small towns in America or backwater coutries that can't manage Ferris wheels either.
Once fluoride crosses the blood-brain barrier, it causes degeneration in certain regions of the brain, specifically the hippocampus, neocortex, and cerebellum. The hippocampus is considered the seat of memory and is critical for learning, emotional regulation, and turning off the stress response.
With 3 main effects being observed:
Reduced intelligence (lowered IQ)
Neurobehavioral defects (ADHD)
Impaired capacity to learn & remember
The controversy was heightened when the world’s most respected medical journal recently classified fluoride officially as a dangerous neurotoxin.
Mapping the hottest temperatures around the worldAt least 22 countries have recorded maximum temperatures of 50C (122F) or above. Monday, July 3, was the hottest day ever recorded globally, according to data from the United States National Centers for Environmental Prediction.
The highest temperature ever recorded in Europe was 48.8C (119.8F) on the Italian island of Sicily on August 11, 2021. On July 19, 2022, The United Kingdom recorded its highest-ever temperature, reaching 40.2C (104.4F), according to its Meteorological Office. In 2020, Seymour Island in Antarctica recorded a maximum temperature of 20.7C (69.3F).
The world is getting hotter
Earth’s global average surface temperature in 2020 tied with 2016 as the warmest year on record. Collectively, the past eight years have been the warmest since modern record-keeping began in the 1880s, according to NASA.
Plantagenet wrote: at +2.0 C
mousepad wrote:Plantagenet wrote: at +2.0 C
But how bad is +2K? You move a little north and a little inland. Done deal.
mousepad wrote:
I just visited a geological museum in a temperate climate. It showed the region 20M years ago. It was tropical.
And it showed the region 20k years ago. Glaciers.
+2K, what's the big deal?
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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