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Taxonomy Archive: Heat illness/extreme temperature
20 Apr 2018 |
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Extreme Heat Can Impact Our Health in Many Ways
Climate change poses many risks to human health. Some health impacts of climate change are already being felt in the United States. We need to safeguard our communities by protecting people’s health, wellbeing, and quality of life from climate change impacts. Many communities are already taking steps to address these public health ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change Makes Me Sick!: Heat
Climate change will increase the frequency and severity of extreme heat events such as heat waves. In the U.S., heat waves are the most dangerous extreme weather event we face; they cause more than 1,300 deaths per year.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Workshop on the Development of Climate Information Systems for Heat Health Early Warning: Assessing Knowledge, Needs, and the Path Forward
Recent Assessments agree that extreme heat events will become more frequent and intense as our climate changes. To address this issue and build on the emerging capacity to predict heat on climate time scales, NOAA (OAR, NWS, NESDIS), the Deutscher Wetterdienst (German Met Service), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Health: The Effects of Heat
Climate change is real and is caused primarily by human activity, especially burning fossil fuels. As ocean and air temperatures rise, the delicate balance of climate, weather events and life is disrupted. Human health suffers as a result. What is truly needed for health is a cool, stable climate.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Weather: Hot enough for you? This is just the beginning
Millions of people around the world are experiencing a scorching summer, as records are broken and thermostats climb this week in parts of Europe. Temperatures in Paris and Brussels exceeded 90 degrees Fahrenheit at a time of year when 70-degree weather is the norm, according to Accuweather.com.In Bandar-e Mahshahr, Iran, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Sizzling Midwest Feels a Preview of a Hotter Future Climate
Extreme heat waves like the current string of scorching days in the Midwest have become more frequent worldwide in the last 60 years, and climate scientists expect that human-caused global warming will exacerbate the dangerous trend in coming decades. It comes with potentially life-threatening consequences for millions of ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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LA area has highest urban heat island effect in California
One of downsides of living in a city is that heat can be absorbed in the concrete and pavement of buildings and streets, creating so-called urban heat islands.To find out which areas of the state are most affected, the California Environmental Protection Agency created a first-of-its-kind index tracking temperatures across the ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Extreme Heat Infographic
CDC infographic on climate change and extreme heat
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change and heat: Which San Francisco neighborhoods are most vulnerable?
Infographic on the San Francisco heat vulnerability model
20 Apr 2018 |
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Could Pheonix Soon Become Uninhabitable?
The city is at the crossroads of climate change—and, for a host of reasons, an unsustainable future.