The Earth has seen a whopping 1.6F increase in global temperatures since 1850, and it is all your fault
Heat is testing the limits of human survivability. Here’s how it kills
(story of someone running in the heat and dying)
The tragedy is sadly far from unique; extreme heat is turning ordinary activities deadly.
People have died taking a stroll in the midday sun, on a family hike in a national park, at an outdoor Taylor Swift concert, and even sweltering in their homes without air conditioning. During this year’s Hajj pilgrimage in June, around 1,300 people perished as temperatures pushed above 120 degrees Fahrenheit in Mecca.
Heat is the deadliest type of extreme weather, and the human-caused climate crisis is making heat waves more severe and prolonged. Add humidity into the mix, and conditions in some places are approaching the limits of human survivability — the point at which our bodies simply cannot adapt.
No, cold is the deadliest
Globally, cold deaths are 9 times higher than heat-related ones. In no region is this ratio less than 3, and in many, it’s over 10 times higher. Cold is more deadly than heat, even in the hottest parts of the world.
Anyhow, back to the CNN piece, which is more of a press release from the climate cult than any sort of news article
“We’ve essentially weaponized summer,” said Matthew Huber, a climate professor at Purdue University.
Our bodies can get used to the heat to some extent, but it takes time, and even then, sometimes heat is simply too extreme to adapt to. (snip)
Purdue University’s Huber and a team of scientists projected that billions of people will be exposed to this dangerous threshold as global warming accelerates. With every half a degree the world heats up, scorching, sticky heat “just expands outward in these hot, deadly blobs,” Huber said.
Except, it’s not accelerating, and it really is nothing unusual for a Holocene warm period. Of course, in previous ones the few wackos just blamed Bad Weather on witchcraft and the gods.
Heat already kills an estimated 489,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, but the real toll could be higher because heat-related deaths are so hard to track.
The real toll could be way less. They can’t give you actual numbers, they just say a death is related, much like someone who died from a motorcycle crash but tested positive for COVID, so, they say it was COVID.
Instead, heat is a creeping threat, a steady hum in the background. Its worst damage is not to property but to our bodies, Venkat said. And it is an “invisible, silent killer.”
Cult.
Read: Oh Noes: A Slight Increase In Global Temperature Is Making Parts Of The Earth Unlivable »
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