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How extinction is reported [1]

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Date: 2024-07-29  

Here is how the news will be delivered ( if we are lucky )

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/29/climate/heat-survivability-health-death-intl/index.html

On KOS someone will post tips of how to get through a heat wave — this will get massive interaction and the apple is bitten.

But on the whole : humans in 2024 do not want to talk about extinction.

The gentle helpful facts in this article paint the picture of extinction, but only if you are wiling to say that the moving walls in your room are indeed an elephant.

1. The condition in the abstract as a science fun fact

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.

2. Discuss what is happening now in the language of “can” and “in the future”

A wet-bulb temperature of around 87.8 degrees is about the maximum healthy humans can cope with, according to recent research. It might not sound that hot, but this is stifling and deadly heat — nearly 90 degrees with 100% humidity, and next to no ability for your body to cool itself. 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.

3. Talk about it almost like covid — whattya gonna do … am i right…..

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. Deaths may be attributed to heart attacks or strokes, with no reference to the fact they happened during a scorching heat wave. “We’re absolutely undercounting in a serious way,” said Bharat Venkat, director of the UCLA Heat Lab.

…..and…..

Heat lacks the blunt force of a hurricane, the scorched earth of a wildfire or the sweeping devastation of a flood — all of which leave a visible and immediate trail of devastation, destroying homes, tearing up roads and flattening towns. 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.”

Thanks for the report Laura — food for thought there…….. and now for fall fashion — how hot is too hot ….

Very few people are gonna read or participate in this survey — thank you for stopping by and chiming in!

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