How Extreme Heat Overwhelms the Human Body
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Published 2023-04-13
As the climate warms, small changes in average temperature can have big impacts, including an increase in the number of people exposed to extreme heat.
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All Comments (21)
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Heat almost killed me while roofing in the AZ summer. After vomiting everything, I went into convulsions until unconscious. If not for a plumber down below, I would have died. Wet towels and electrolytes brought me back. It took a week to recover. I then went to college and graduated to a white collar career. Don't mess with the heat. It wins out in the end.
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Been livin in sw Florida for 25 plus years and heat is not something you mess about in...and always take water with me
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If you hydrate yourself, you won't die of heat stroke. DRINK LOTS OF WATER PEOPLE!!!!
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Be a gardener in Australia 🇦🇺 working 38c is my cut off limit anything over 36c plants burn after clipping. Keep cool 😎
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Did you know you can get heat exhaustion in a 55-degree cave? You can when the humidity is 90%. I know. It happened to me.
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Hence the need for more power to keep us cool, better construction to keep us away from extreme weather, now and in the future.
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We get to witness natural selection in real time.
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Heat stroke happens a lot in Hawaii. I seen people collapse more times than I can count! (Especially in Waikiki where all the tourists go!)
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Imagine poor India with temperatures that sometimes approach 120 degrees!
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I can't stand anything above 73°F without some kinda airflow otherwise I overheat, I have had this issue since I was a baby. My right knee is the worst, and work wants me to get a signed DR's note to wear shorts, an I am damn positive safety over-rides company policy's when it comes to overheating issues!~
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Agree 100%
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'fahrenheit'? it is 2024, not the dark ages. Use standard units of measurement.
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Try South Carolina!
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Come to nola!
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So how does measuring heat better help us? Can we stop going to work? Can we stay home with the air conditioner? What if you don't have an air conditioner? You say this as if our society is going to chage in order to compensate the heat.
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Keep moving to Florida and Texas!
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We talking about melanated people or non melanated people ? A Scottish person is going to handle the heat way different to someone from Africa for instance
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so what about extreme cold? don't more people due by cold than heat?
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Go to Mexico, 99% of the people refuse to work over 30c, there is no productivity in the entire country, maybe it's the heat, ????
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Try living in texas baby....its probably cooler in iraq
