Record Levels of Heat-Related Deaths in 2023 Due To Climate Crisis, Report Finds (theguardian.com) 87
Heat-related deaths, food insecurity and the spread of infectious diseases caused by the climate crisis have reached record levels, according to a landmark report. The Guardian: The Lancet Countdown's ninth report on health and the climate breakdown reveals that people across the world face unprecedented threats to their health from the rapidly changing climate. "This year's stocktake of the imminent health threats of climate inaction reveals the most concerning findings yet," warned Dr Marina Romanello, executive director of the Lancet Countdown at University College London.
"Once again, last year broke climate change records with extreme heatwaves, deadly weather events, and devastating wildfires affecting people around the world. No individual or economy on the planet is immune [to] the health threats of climate change. The relentless expansion of fossil fuels and record-breaking greenhouse gas emissions compounds these dangerous health impacts, and is threatening to reverse the limited progress made so far and put a healthy future further out of reach."
The report finds that in 2023, extreme drought lasting at least one month affected 48% of the global land area, while people had to cope with an unprecedented 50 more days of health-threatening temperatures than would have been expected without the climate crisis. As a result, 151 million more people faced moderate or severe food insecurity, risking malnutrition and other harm to their health.
"Once again, last year broke climate change records with extreme heatwaves, deadly weather events, and devastating wildfires affecting people around the world. No individual or economy on the planet is immune [to] the health threats of climate change. The relentless expansion of fossil fuels and record-breaking greenhouse gas emissions compounds these dangerous health impacts, and is threatening to reverse the limited progress made so far and put a healthy future further out of reach."
The report finds that in 2023, extreme drought lasting at least one month affected 48% of the global land area, while people had to cope with an unprecedented 50 more days of health-threatening temperatures than would have been expected without the climate crisis. As a result, 151 million more people faced moderate or severe food insecurity, risking malnutrition and other harm to their health.
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Found the MAGA.
Re:"study finds" ... "climate crisis" (Score:5, Informative)
Please tell me you're trolling, and not proof of Idiocracy.
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What on earth are you talking about?!? Seriously, "the connection with carbon is being disproven" is some level 11 trolling, right there. Also, "scientists finding a higher correlation with solar activity and orbit change" is not how "science" works, but yeah,...
Please tell me you're trolling, and not proof of Idiocracy.
He can't answer right now, Ancient Aliens is having a series marathon.
The energy retention characteristics of an atmosphere has been shown for a few centuries now, and is proven again and again in grade school science fairs. We even use the very effect commercially in greenhouses.
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The energy retention characteristics of an atmosphere has been shown for a few centuries now [...]. We even use the very effect commercially in greenhouses.
Interesting. How does that work? I know greenhouses use high CO2 levels to boost plan growth, but to increase energy retention? I mean, I can see how it could add a small amount of insulation, but enough to make that the purpose of adding CO2?
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Just because you don't understand it, don't assume other people d
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Numbers like those are easily manipulable. It's actually a quite complex process to interpret any scientific research results
Okay, so let's see your differing interpretation. What journal was it published in? There's absolute assloads of money out there for anyone who can convincingly show that AGW isn't occurring, so no excuses about funding will be accepted.
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There's absolute assloads of money out there for anyone who can convincingly suggest that AGW is occurring.
FTFY.
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There's absolute assloads of money out there for anyone who can convincingly suggest that AGW is occurring.
FTFY.
[citation needed]
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It's very easy to find out who studied this stuff and where their funding comes from. It's on the website.
https://lancetcountdown.org/wh... [lancetcountdown.org]
It's is funded by the Lancet and the Wellcome Trust. The individuals who wrote it will be funded by their individual institutions. There is a list of these as well.
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I'd like to know studied this stuff:
Your wish is granted. Look at the list of references found in the article, here: https://www.thelancet.com/jour... [thelancet.com]
and where their funding comes from.
Open the referenced papers and you will find that.
It's not the orbit [Re:"study finds" ... "clim..." (Score:2)
Also the connection with carbon is being disproven, scientists finding a higher correlation with solar activity
Huh? No.
We measure the sun. The Earth's temperature is rising during high solar activity, it is rising during low solar activity, it is rising during average solar activity. The sun is not getting hotter. The climate is.
Ever since sunspots were discovered in the 1600s, scientists have been trying to find a correlation between solar activity and climate. So far, none of the hypothesized correlations have held up.
and orbit change,
You are aware that orbit changes happen on a time scale of ten thousand years to a hundred thousa
Not only The Guardian (Score:3)
Scroll one line further down, and the reference is the Lancet [thelancet.com].
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We should try to reduce both.
Ground-source heat pumps can store the excess heat in the summer and use it to warm buildings in the winter.
Heat pumps reduce carbon emissions, especially if powered by renewables, and work better as the climate warms.
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This is a "let them eat cake" moment. You're offering extremely expensive technological solution to a problem of those who are generally the poorest.
Because heat and cold related deaths are overwhelmingly poverty related deaths. Those who can afford decent homes even without heat pumps form a tiny minority among heat and cold related deaths. Most of them are the ones that can't afford those.
P.S. Coldest days are days when snow has covered the panels, and high pressure front has moved in allowing heat to rad
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You got both math and location wrong. First, it would be "so what if ten Europeans die to save one African". Second, it's not Africans who are dying cold related deaths, but people in temperate and cool temperate regions, i.e. places like North East Asia, Eastern Europe, and US.
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You got both math and location wrong. First, it would be "so what if ten Europeans die to save one African". Second, it's not Africans who are dying cold related deaths, but people in temperate and cool temperate regions, i.e. places like North East Asia, Eastern Europe, and US.
A few years back, there was a real heat wave in Chicago. A fair number of people expired. IIRC, it was a lot of seniors that wanted to save money. Wouldn't even turn on a fan. Now when heatwaves hit, many cities send out H&W checks for people.
Protip for everyone - if you don't have air conditioning, but do have a fan, water and a washrag, take the wet washrag and rub it on yourself. Be in front of the fan.
Not high tech, but might save your life.
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Protip for everyone - if you don't have air conditioning, but do have a fan, water and a washrag, take the wet washrag and rub it on yourself. Be in front of the fan.
Not high tech, but might save your life.
Good tip, but with an important caveat. As overall temps rise, summertime humidity is rising too. This results in higher wet-bulb temperatures. Once the wet-bulb reading reaches a certain level, all the evaporative cooling in the world won't save you, because evaporation is no longer occurring at any meaningful rate.
Evaporative cooling [Re:Lie of omission] (Score:2)
Protip for everyone - if you don't have air conditioning, but do have a fan, water and a washrag, take the wet washrag and rub it on yourself. Be in front of the fan.
Note that this depends on evaporative cooling, so it doesn't work when humidity approaches 100%.
But, yes, swamp coolers [howstuffworks.com] substitute for air conditioners in poor regions.
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Protip for everyone - if you don't have air conditioning, but do have a fan, water and a washrag, take the wet washrag and rub it on yourself. Be in front of the fan.
Note that this depends on evaporative cooling, so it doesn't work when humidity approaches 100%.
But, yes, swamp coolers [howstuffworks.com] substitute for air conditioners in poor regions.
Yes, there are limits to evaporative cooling here in the Northeast. Another tip would be to run a tub of cold water. I do have some neckerchief type things filled with water absorbing beads. You soak them in water, the beads swell up, then you wear it around your neck, and as they evaporate, they cool. Cooling the blood to the brain seems to help a good bit.
Another trick that some motorcyclists use for crossing the desert is evaporative or even frozen water filled vests. When you are looking at spendin
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This is a "let them eat cake" moment.
Change in heat death rate by wealth [ourworldindata.org]
Oh look Finland, Norway, Iceland, Sweden and Canada will have the most decrease in deaths.
And look at all the poor countries that will have more heat related deaths. I guess it's a sacrifice you're willing to make.
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For those unaware heat will kill a lot more people than cold did. And the heating has hardly even become noticeable yet.
Luckyo is pretending cold is safer because he is only counting the direct deaths of freezing or heatstroke. But heating will change the climate in ways that will cause many more natural disasters such as floods, fires, hurricanes etc. He doesn't want you to include those, even though the heat will make them worse.
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We evolved to have airconditioned cities? That's a new one.
We evolved to migrate. How are you going to do that with most people living in cities. And most countries not allowing people to move there.
So what if an ice age killed most people. That's a strawman, we're not going to be having an ice age. And the experiment wasn't done with massive extra heating. That would have killed of most of the humans too. Heat and humidity kill just as well as cold.
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We evolved to have airconditioned cities? That's a new one.
No. He didn't say that. He didn't say anything remotely like that. He said:
"...our species has evolved for a much warmer climate".
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Evidence says the opposite.
Show your work.
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Evidence says the opposite. So does evolution, as our species has evolved for a much warmer climate. We are a tropical animal, that got utterly brutalized by the currently receding Ice Age.
Gah - you are such a masterful troll that you've trolled yourself into believing your own bullshit. Well done, I guess...
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We are still in an ice age. This currently interglacial is roughly 10,000 years old, but it's still an ice age we're in. But then we evolved during an ice age. You might do well to learn the difference between ice ages and glacial maxima and interglacials.
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Is the reduction in cold related deaths due to climate change or better insulation, heating, and clothing?
It doesn't really matter, because even if what you claim were true, the fact is that people who find the place they live in becoming uninhabitable are going to migrate, and we all know how much conservatives like you love migration.
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This is the other great myth of religious zealots of this movement. That planet is getting "uninhabitable".
Reality is of course the exact opposite. Planet is more inhabitable than it ever was. Because we're recovering from an ice age. Chlorophyll based life is basis for all life on this planet except for a handful of micro-organisms in volcanoes and such. And that life prefers 1200-1500ppm atmospheric CO2. It's in starvation mode right now, as our planet is recovering from record low CO2 planetary state of
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Straw man. The issue is not that the planet is going to die out or some nonsense like that, it's that the areas where people currently live are becoming too hot for *human* habitation.
The fact that people are already dying of climate change and migrating because of it is undeniable. Actually that's not true, the far right is denying it and claiming it's some sort of Marxist conspiracy theory to replace them with brown people.
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Moving goal posts (oh no, caught in a lie about planet being uninhabitable), and claiming that self-inflicted problems such as people having been allowed to cross borders in ways never seen before in human history enabled by far left pseudo-NGOs (that are mainly government funded in way or another through bureaucratic subversion) are actually about planet becoming more livable.
Overwhelming majority of areas were people live are significantly MORE livable today than they were ten years ago. Which in turn wer
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Never seen before in human history? The rules they are crossing under were created after WW2 because of how refugees had been abused and even used as weapons before and during that conflict.
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Jesus! You do realize that slashdot shows the history of the comments above yours?
This is the comment you replied to in full (it's short)
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Moving goal posts (oh no, caught in a lie about planet being uninhabitable),
Jesus! You do realize that Moving goal posts (oh no, caught in a lie about planet being uninhabitable), I'm lost for words at this point. This entire thread is 27 minutes according to the slashdot posting times. Are you a goldfish perhaps?
There are groups that want to take the most alarming things that one person - or perhaps a few - say, then claim that everyone believes that. Happens both far left and far right.
That is how deniers will post orgasmically about that Time Magazine article from the 1970's that "claimed" that we might be slipping into an ice age, as the Northeast was dealing with a lot of snowfall - as proof that all scientists are stupid, and can't make up their minds about anything, so there is no AGW.
So anyone claiming t
CO2 fertilization [Re:Lie of omission] (Score:2)
Same lie you always tell about Chlorophyll. Not once backed up by you.
I hate to reply to anonymous cowards, but in fact the CO2 fertilization effect is a real effect, it is indeed well known, and it is being observed as a result of the increased CO2 in the atmosphere. There was just a recent review paper about this: https://phys.org/news/2016-04-... [phys.org]
CO2 is rarely a limiting factor for plant growth. Water and other minerals will limit plants even with you "magical CO2 levels"
Yes, increasing CO2 will only increase plant growth in locations where CO2 is the limiting factor, not water or other nutrients. Nitrogen or phosphorus are often the limiting factor: https://climatemodeling.scienc... [energy.gov] , and, of co
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Reality is of course the exact opposite. Planet is more inhabitable than it ever was. Because we're recovering from an ice age.
Quick reminder, the glacial retreat was 10,000 years ago, and the present climate established by 8,000 years ago. We are not "recovering" from an ice age; we did that before the start of recorded history.
Nevertheless, no, the planet is not becoming "uninhabitable." There will be adverse effects of climate change, but it won't make the planet uninhabited.
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We even have a name for it. "CO2 fertilization effect". This is so uncontroversial,
Bonus points here; this is real:
https://www.nasa.gov/centers-a... [nasa.gov]
https://earthobservatory.nasa.... [nasa.gov]
that even far left wikipedia has an article on the topic that hasn't been banned or hasn't had hate facts changed for politically correct misinformation.
Bizarre. Wikipedia is "far left"?? If y
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Just to let you know I agree with everything you say, Luckyo. Unfortunately I have no mod points. It's good to see someone with the courage and intellectual integrity to provoke the mob.
Hang in there! 8-)
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Is the reduction in cold related deaths due to climate change or better insulation, heating, and clothing?
It doesn't really matter, because even if what you claim were true, the fact is that people who find the place they live in becoming uninhabitable are going to migrate, and we all know how much conservatives like you love migration.
And let's face it, we can always put more clothing on. After wearing nothing, not much further can be done.
And yes, heat and other changes will result in climate refugees.
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When it is cold, you can always put more clothes on.
When it gets too hot (and humid), you can't take any more clothes off.
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Heat vs Cold (Score:2)
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At the same time, it should be acknowledged that those numbers are dwarfed by the number of cold related deaths, amputations, and severe injuries we still have every year.
Why should that be acknowledged? Do you think AGW is going to reduce those deaths any time soon? Because it will do the opposite by creating more severe weather events.
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Consequences of economics? (Score:1)
Whatever. (Score:2)
The camps are divided. Nobody's listening.
I think that to graduate high school you should need to select a position that you subscribe to. Then you should have to research and author a paper on five arguments why the contrary position may be true.
In the end the climate will do what it will, irrespective of the opinions of one species inhabiting it.
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In the end the climate will do what it will, irrespective of the opinions of one species inhabiting it.
It's not about opinions, it's about actions. Some of us believe in doing more than hoping and praying.
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In the end the climate will do what it will, irrespective of the opinions of one species inhabiting it.
Irrespective of the opinions yes. But not irrespective of the actions those people take.
And those actions will be influenced by their opinions.
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In the end the climate will do what it will, irrespective of the opinions of one species inhabiting it.
More exactly, in the end, the climate will do what we are making it do, irrespective of the opinions of the people arguing about it.
Fossil fuels corporations (Score:2, Insightful)
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I read recently that Canada needs 11 more of those dams if we are to keep up to full adoption of EVs.
[citation needed]
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As the climate heats, it's getting less & less hospitable not only to humans & the food we grow, but also to a wide range of species on which our ecosystems depend. We're already witnessing extraordinary rates of species extinction. Burning fossil fuels & releasing methane into the atmosphere is causing climate heating. These are facts. Your comments haven't addressed these facts. It's just more hot air in an attempt
Wording (Score:2)
If (and it's not really an if) global warming is happening, then we shouldn't be calling heat waves and hurricanes and such 'extreme' events. They're not, they're the start of the new normal.
There's also the issue of death count not mattering much. First, the numbers are amazingly low. "Hundreds dead in head wave" doesn't mean much when you're talking millions of people. For a population of a million, we lose an average of 21 people a day under normal circumstances. Sure, you can point to 'this person
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There is no new normal, because there is no longer any normal.
There will only be more and more chaos, because that's how chaotic systems work when you add energy. They never spontaneously generate order.
What we should be focusing on is how climate change will lead to mass starvation by causing crop failures.
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"Record levels of heat deaths"...may even objectively be true, but it conveniently disguises the reality that deaths from cold kill VASTLY more people world wide.
Now ask yourself why anyone would try to amplify the danger of heat deaths when the actual science is so obviously and radically the opposite?
https://ourworldindata.org/par... [ourworldindata.org]
https://www.forbes.com/sites/j... [forbes.com]
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Now ask yourself why anyone would try to amplify the danger of heat deaths when the actual science is so obviously and radically the opposite?
Because as global warming gets worse so will these heat deaths (as they already have). Or is that too simple for you?
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But the point is, that it is simultaneous reducing the number of cold deaths--which is a much worse problem.
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But the point is, that it is simultaneous reducing the number of cold deaths--which is a much worse problem.
So your point is exactly what the above said and that I've already addressed?
Hot weather is becoming more dangerous, it's a growing problem that people should be aware of. The fact that the shrinking number of cold deaths still outnumber heat deaths is irrelevant, no one is contradicting that point by pointing to the growing problem of extreme heat.
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you're confusing deaths with delta-deaths
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There have been lots heatwaves in the past.
Another thing that is different is we have larger urban populations and a larger part of the population urban than ever. Well there is a lot less options for escaping the heat when you live in a 400ft apartment on a treeless street.
I remember my grandfather actually telling me about how amazing air-conditioning is when I was kid. His story was pretty much how when he was a boy, on really hot days he and his mother would go outside walk a little ways into the woods
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What if.... (Score:1)
Wet bulb (Score:2)
Keep an eye out for wet bulb temperatures in your area. They are already becoming common in southern parts of the USA and can easily kill people.
We are deeper into the FO phase than I thought we would be at this point. Drought, wildfires, unprecedented flooding, plants no longer able to take up carbon, the poles and oceans 20 degrees hotter than what used to be normal... and it's going to continue to accelerate as the profiteers are still fucking around as hard and fast as possible.