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Honored to be selected as a National Academy of Sciences Frontiers of Science (FoS) Fellow and serve as an introductory speaker for the heat and human health panel during next week's FoS Symposium!
https://news.arizona.edu/news/u-heat-policy-experts-present-annual-frontiers-science-symposium
#extremeheat #heathealth #heatresilience #NAS #FrontiersofScience
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New story out on our 3rd Southern Arizona Heat Summit: "There's not any other city in the United States that's doing a continual heat summit like this with the range of partners that we have, so I think that's something to be really proud of. That said, of course, we still have a lot more work to do which is why we're all here." https://news.arizona.edu/news/southern-arizona-heat-summit-highlights-youth-voices-while-helping-tucson-prepare-extreme-heat #extremeheat #heatresilience #heathealth #climatechange
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New co-authored paper out, where we find heat-related emergency medical service activations increased 65% from 2019 to 2024 across the U.S. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2844697?guestAccessKey=65fc7f79-6a23-4c7b-a069-e3f3532a9ff2&utm_source=jps&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=author_alert-jamanetwork&utm_content=author-author_engagement&utm_term=1m #heathealth #extremeheat #heatresilience
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I'll say it again: Every single heat death is preventable, and we must do better to protect all of our community members from this increasing hazard. https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-hvac-worker-dies-after-collapsing-extreme-heat #extremeheat #heathealth
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"Layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services have dealt a critical blow to the agency's efforts to manage rising temperatures made worse by climate change." https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-staff-cuts-hollow-out-extreme-heat-programs/ #extremeheat #heatresilience #heathealth
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Heat-safe play index (H-SPI): a tool to compare relative thermal safety of outdoor playgrounds. We need to improve thermal comfort in playgrounds for #UrbanHeat, to prioritise playground upgrades and their features.
#heathealth #Climateadaptation #ClimateCrisis
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Look whats coming up as part of the #Melbourne Climate Adaptation Fair this weekend at #Footscray. Friends of the Earth and Sweltering Cities have a workshop on temperature monitoring as part of #ExtremeHeatAwarenessDay (Feb 5)
#Extremeheat #HeatHealthhttps://www.melbournefoe.org.au/workshop_sweltering_cities_20250208
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Incoming #heatwave for #Melbourne, SE Australia for Sunday-Tuesday. Stay cool😎. Dont leave kids or pets in cars, put out water💦 for wildlife.
Assess your #heathealth risk for your location here: https://heatwatch.sydney.edu.au/Expanding coal and gas #Fossilfuels ➡️ 📈emissions ➡️ 📈 heatwave frequency and intensity and Bushfires🔥.
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Incoming #heatwave Friday - Sunday for #Melbourne & SE Australia.
http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/heatwave/
Tips to keep #heathealth cool:
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@takvera
We 🐾 to wonder how increasing extreme temperatures driven by climate change will affect all of us canines and other species.Many dogs live outside and are working dogs🦮🐕🦺. Think of the kelpies, collies and cattle dogs. What is the trend for their heat mortality? #heathealth #heatvulnerability #dogsofmastodon
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Interesting new study on heat-related mortality. I've just done a write-up on my blog: Younger people disproportionately represented in climate heat-related mortality trend according to Mexico study
Andrew J. Wilson et al. , Heat disproportionately kills young people: Evidence from wet-bulb temperature in Mexico.Sci. Adv.10,eadq3367(2024).DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adq3367
#heatvulnerability #heathealth #extremeHeat #ClimateCrisis
https://takvera.blogspot.com/2024/12/younger-people-disproportionately.html
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Interesting new study on heat-related mortality. I've just done a write-up on my blog:
Younger people disproportionately represented in climate heat-related mortality trend according to Mexico study
#heatvulnerability #heathealth #extremeHeat #ClimateCrisis
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CAMerribek extracted the Data for #Merribek from Australia Institute latest report on Heat Vulnerability, as we move into what is likely to be a scorching summer for #Australia.
#HeatHealth #ClimateCrisis
https://climateactionmerribek.org/2024/12/04/heat-vulnerability-in-merri-bek/ -
@jhaue now would be a good time to review personal heat plans for summer, especially if you are in a vulnerable cohort. #heathealth
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First #Heatwave of the year for France as #Olympics gets under way in Paris and other cities. Here is Meteo France assessment. For Paris Maximum temperatures will reach 34 to 36°C on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Keep in mind that #extremeHeat poses health risks to athletes in competition, as well as visitors and general population. #HeatHealth
More frequent #heatwaves are driven by the #ClimateCrisis -
Extreme heat is a silent killer that kills more people than any other weather related disaster. The lucky ones make it to overworked ER Departments.
"As the #ClimateCrisis intensifies and shatters heat records, emergency rooms across the US are filling up with heat-sick patients. Officials recorded nearly 120,000 heat-related emergency room visits in 2023 alone, a “substantial” increase from previous years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
#HeatHealth #ExtremeHeat
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/26/extreme-heat-er-overwhelm -
Kicking off the Global Heat Health Information System (GHINN) Management Committee meeting at Yale-NUS College in Singapore! #heathealth #extremeheat
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The New York Times has an article on How Heat Affects the Brain. High temperatures can make us miserable. Research shows they also make us aggressive, impulsive and dull.
Record temperatures in #Heatwaves are ocurring in North America, Europe, Middle East, China, Asia this northern summer.
Worth reading. It is a gift link from my subscription
#heatwave #HeatHealth #heatimpacts #extremetemperatures #ClimateCrisis
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CW: Canada needs health alerts with Climate Change
@larryneufeld
Australia has a warning system for #ExtremeWeather
https://www.australianwarningsystem.com.au/Heatwave alerts by our Bureau of Meteorology
http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/heatwave/knowledge-centre/heatwave-service.shtmlHeat Health warnings are issued by State Health Departments. eg. Victoria:
https://www.health.vic.gov.au/environmental-health/heat-health-warningI go into some detail in this 2015 blog post about Victoria's heat health alert system, the optimum temperature thresholds for Australian capital cities.
https://climateactionmoreland.org/2015/01/04/heatwaves-and-victorias-heat-health-alert-warning-system/Hopefully this gives ideas for #Canada
#HeatHealth #WarningSystems #Heatwaves #ClimateAdaptation
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In Europe #Heatwaves hit the most vulnerable. New study.
Heatwaves in Europe are on the rise, with 57% more people exposed to them in the decade from 2010 to 2019 compared to the preceding ten year period. In densely populated areas, the effects of these extreme heat events are particularly pronounced due to urban features that lead to what is known as the #UrbanHeatIsland effect. In fact, heat stress resulting from heatwaves is the major cause of climate-related premature deaths in Europe.
#heatwave #HeatHealth #ClimateEquity #ClimateAdaptation #ClimateCrisis
https://www.cmcc.it/article/in-european-cities-heatwaves-hit-the-most-vulnerable -
At 2.20pm yesterday I was Just passing a local grass soccer oval on the way home.
What should be the heat health policy for children (teen girls) playing soccer in 35C+ heat? Anyone?When I got home, I did some reading: Sports Medicine Aus says Soccer is a category 3 sport for extreme heat health risks. The girls were playing in 35.8C ambient temperature, 22% humidity as I measured. That places them into moderate #heathealth risk approaching high risk.
I have no idea if more frequent breaks, or drink stoppages were being implemented which are risk mitigation measures at moderate level.
I am only glad this wasn’t on #syntheticturf which would amplify the heat health risks. Synthetic Turf can reach spot temperatures up to 80C in direct sunlight posing a direct health stress risk to playing on the surface.
The Sports Medicine Australia document says near the end :
“currently unclear if heat stress risk is truly elevated in children”
#Extremheat #HeatHealth #Health #SportsMedicine #heatwave #Soccerhttps://sma.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/SMA-Extreme-Heat-Policy-2021-Final.pdf
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Test cricket is being played at the MCG today #AUSvsSA. The BOM temperature sensors at Olympic Park (next door) hit 37.1 at 03:21pm. Players are cramping with the heat, seats being brought out during drink breaks. Wonder how the fans in the open sun are travelling?
* Cricket Australia has Alinta Energy has a major sponsor, who is Victoria's third largest climate polluter.
* Cricket Australia has not joined the UN Sports for Climate Action Framework. https://unfccc.int/climate-action/sectoral-engagement/sports-for-climate-action/participants-in-the-sports-for-climate-action-frameworkSome background from Feb 2022: Time for a reckoning: Cricket Australia, fossil fuel sponsorship and climate change
#heatwave #heathealth #Cricket #Greenwashing #ClimateChange #Sports
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Our 2nd birthday 🎉 and it’s a Hot 🔥 day with temperature 31C in the shade in our backyard at 1pm. Temps are still rising here in Melbourne. Dad has already taken us to the dog park and stopped at a cafe before it gets too hot..
Raw chicken wings 🍗 for us to celebrate our birthday 🎂
Did you know with temperatures rising due to #heatwaves and global heating, more people are being transported to Hospital Emergency with heat-related chest pain?
Stay cool and Take care people and stop the #fossilfuels addiction.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S004896972204815X
#Chihuahuas
#JulietAndJones
#DogsOfMastodon
#ChihuahuasForClimateAction
#heathealth
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Meet Ash Avila, one of the students I'm working with on our #NITC-funded cool corridor project. She's presenting her research on the effect of vehicles on personal heat exposure at #TRB next week
#heatresilience #urbanheat #extremeheat #heathealth #uarizona @TRECpdx
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My birthday outing was to the local Cafe: Bites on Bonwick for an iced latte, and an apple danish, minus the Pups.
The ambient air temperature in the shade was 34.6C, humidity 14%. Spot temperature of the asphalt road: 56.1C; concrete footpath in the sun: 49.4C.
Victoria is in the middle of a low intensity #Heatwave with Tmax temperatures 35C+ in Melbourne and even hotter north of the Divide, and a Tmin forecast overnight of 24C.
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In North Queensland Electricity workers restoring power to 29,000 homes and businesses in hot and high humidity conditions after Tropical Cyclone Kirrily (#TCKirrily) passed through Thursday night.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/28/tropical-cyclone-kirrily-disaster-grants-offered-as-tens-of-thousands-in-north-queensland-remain-without-power.#Heatwave Temperatures 🌡️ have returned to mid 30s Celsius with high level of humidity above 60% according to BOM Meteye service
Just checking the #HeatHealth risk in #Cairns.
High today, but rated severe for Monday-Saturday, into extreme on Tuesday.
https://heatwatch.sydney.edu.auWhat #ClimateCrisis ?#LethalHeat
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In Europe #Heatwaves hit the most vulnerable. New study.
Heatwaves in Europe are on the rise, with 57% more people exposed to them in the decade from 2010 to 2019 compared to the preceding ten year period. In densely populated areas, the effects of these extreme heat events are particularly pronounced due to urban features that lead to what is known as the #UrbanHeatIsland effect. In fact, heat stress resulting from heatwaves is the major cause of climate-related premature deaths in Europe.
#heatwave #HeatHealth #ClimateEquity #ClimateAdaptation #ClimateCrisis
https://www.cmcc.it/article/in-european-cities-heatwaves-hit-the-most-vulnerable -
In Europe #Heatwaves hit the most vulnerable. New study.
Heatwaves in Europe are on the rise, with 57% more people exposed to them in the decade from 2010 to 2019 compared to the preceding ten year period. In densely populated areas, the effects of these extreme heat events are particularly pronounced due to urban features that lead to what is known as the #UrbanHeatIsland effect. In fact, heat stress resulting from heatwaves is the major cause of climate-related premature deaths in Europe.
#heatwave #HeatHealth #ClimateEquity #ClimateAdaptation #ClimateCrisis
https://www.cmcc.it/article/in-european-cities-heatwaves-hit-the-most-vulnerable -
In Europe #Heatwaves hit the most vulnerable. New study.
Heatwaves in Europe are on the rise, with 57% more people exposed to them in the decade from 2010 to 2019 compared to the preceding ten year period. In densely populated areas, the effects of these extreme heat events are particularly pronounced due to urban features that lead to what is known as the #UrbanHeatIsland effect. In fact, heat stress resulting from heatwaves is the major cause of climate-related premature deaths in Europe.
#heatwave #HeatHealth #ClimateEquity #ClimateAdaptation #ClimateCrisis
https://www.cmcc.it/article/in-european-cities-heatwaves-hit-the-most-vulnerable -
In Europe #Heatwaves hit the most vulnerable. New study.
Heatwaves in Europe are on the rise, with 57% more people exposed to them in the decade from 2010 to 2019 compared to the preceding ten year period. In densely populated areas, the effects of these extreme heat events are particularly pronounced due to urban features that lead to what is known as the #UrbanHeatIsland effect. In fact, heat stress resulting from heatwaves is the major cause of climate-related premature deaths in Europe.
#heatwave #HeatHealth #ClimateEquity #ClimateAdaptation #ClimateCrisis
https://www.cmcc.it/article/in-european-cities-heatwaves-hit-the-most-vulnerable -
Is it hot at the #SydneyRoadStreetParty?
Temp reading 3.15pm: ambient air 34.8C in shade. Asphalt road 45.7C , concrete 42.2C (both in sun but has been some cloud cover)
#Climatechange means more extremeheat days, increased #heatHealth issuesThere are 113 new coal, gas projects planned in Australia. Community outreach so important. #ExtinctionRebellion people using our stall as a hub to communicate the #climateEmergency @CAMerribek
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Read our new Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN) call to action: Global temperatures are projected to reach unprecedented levels again this year, and the consequences of inaction will be dire and widespread. https://ghhin.org/news/2024-northern-hemisphere-heat-season-act-now-to-save-lives/ #extremeheat #heathealth
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"Policy and infrastructure changes are urgently needed to protect our mental health from the impact of high temperatures" via American Psychological Association https://www.apa.org/monitor/2024/06/heat-affects-mental-health #heathealth #extremeheat
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Heat-related deaths in #Perth could rise almost 60 per cent by 2050 if temperatures keep rising, adding to impact on health system.
Study “suggested heat-related deaths will jump from 5.29 per 100,000 people to 8.54.“It also predicts a five-fold increase in "extreme heat-related mortality events", defined as more than 11.5 deaths per 100,000 people.”
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The tropics being predicted to be more oppressive this northern summer.
"A new statistical analysis of the interaction between El Niño and rising global temperatures due to climate change concludes that the approaching summer in the tropics has nearly a 7 in 10 chance of breaking records for temperature and humidity."
#Heatwave #LethalHumidity #HeatHealth #ClimateCrisis
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Weeks away from the summer monsoon, Asia’s Heat Wave Scorches Hundreds of Millions across India, Bangladesh, Thailand, Myanmar and more.
Nur-e-Alam, who pulls a rickshaw by hand in Dhaka’s Mogbazar area, said “I haven’t experienced heat like this before,” Mr. Alam said. “Every year gets hotter, but this year is extreme.”
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Well worth reading on #Perth and Western Australia and record hot summer, increasing #heatwave temperatures, and the way media downplayed the heat and the #heatHealth threats.
Also Highlights the dissonance with WA being a major #FossilGas exporter adding to the #ClimateCrisis. -
"We are seeing a lengthening of the #heatwave season basically everywhere in the world, inclusive of south-east Australia," heatwave expert Dr Kirkpatrick said.
Article highlights the #HeatHealth danger of hot nights with several High Tmin records broken, as well as the global heat record for February.
Record-breaking autumn heatwave over south-east Australia hints at growing trend
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-12/heatwave-over-south-east-australia/103572236
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Study: Ambient heat and acute kidney injury: case-crossover analysis of 1 354 675 automated e-alert episodes linked to high-resolution climate data.
"There were strongly increased odds of AKI episode associated with high temperatures, with odds ratio (OR) 1·623 (95% CI 1·319–1·997) on a day of temperature 32°C compared with one of 17°C, the effects being strongest on a lag of 1 day... A 7-day heatwave in July 2021 was associated with a 28·6% increase in AKI counts."#HeatHealth #ClimateCrisis
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(24)00008-1/fulltext -
Incoming Autumn #heatwave for Melbourne and Victoria for this weekend.
Stay cool😎, hydrated💦, water for wildlife💧, don’t leave kids👩👧 or pets🐕 in a car (do I really need to say that?) #heatHealth
Burning #fossilfuels means longer, hotter more frequent #extremeHeat with the #ClimateCrisis.
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Australia's third-warmest summer on record, 1.62 °C above the 1961-1990 average.
I Think the standout statistic for me was Summer mean minimum temperatures were 'very much above average' for nearly all of Australia and highest on record for south-eastern Queensland, north-eastern New South Wales, Cape York Peninsula and parts of inland Western Australia and the Top End of the Northern Territory. More warm summer nights which has #heatHealth implications
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/current/season/aus/summary.shtml
See also Guardian report:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/01/australia-sweats-through-third-hottest-summer-on-record-with-hot-and-dry-autumn-predicted