Part of the reason long stretches of extreme heat can be so deadly is because they are insidious, Ward said.Fires have raged on the Italian island of Sicily © Giovanni ISOLINO / AFP/File “Sustainability and green energy are no longer four-letter words in the state of Texas,” Nirenberg said. solar energy hub - the fifth-largest producer in the country, said Mayor Ron Nirenberg - and now requires 240-volt chargers for electric vehicles in all its new single-family homes. cities, Phoenix and San Antonio are expanding efforts to deploy so-called “cool pavement” surfaces that absorb less heat, part of an effort to ease the heat-island effect that occurs in urban areas. The group called on Biden to order an emergency temporary standard to better protect workers from heat stress, establish a more stringent permanent threshold for protections and urge states to impose their own rules. “Workers are getting sick and dying every day from the extreme heat driven by climate change,” said co-executive director Jessica Martinez. Not good enough, the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health complained Friday. The measures the White House announced this week included a new Department of Labor heat hazard alert system to better warn construction and agricultural workers, and tougher enforcement measures to police their employers. “Even those places that are used to extreme heat have never seen it as hot as it is now for as long as it’s been.” Six hundred people die annually from its effects, more than from floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes in America combined,” he said.Īnd it’s costing the country an estimated $100 billion a year, a price tag that’s only going to continue to go up, he added. “The number 1 weather-related killer is heat.
“Folks, we really want to pretend these things are normal?” President Joe Biden said Thursday as he met with the mayors of Phoenix and San Antonio to tout his latest efforts to help people contend with the conditions. In Phoenix, which has endured temperatures of 43 C or hotter for 27 straight days, emergency rooms are admitting patients for third-degree burns suffered after falling on the searing asphalt. Climate action “is not a luxury but a must,” said Petteri Taalas, the UN World Meteorological Organization’s secretary-general.
The global mean surface air temperature for the first 23 days of July averaged 16.95 C, compared with the previous record of 16.63 C for July 2019. residents, nearly half the country’s population, were under extreme heat alerts Friday. It isn’t unreasonable to think this could quite possibly be the coolest heat season of our lives.” “We’re talking about a new chronic state of being for heat season. We’re talking about a marker, a shift,” Ward said. “At 30 days, we’re not talking about a heat wave anymore. The signals couldn’t be more clear that people need to think differently about the weather, said Ashley Ward, director of the Heat Policy Innovation Hub at Duke University in Durham, N.C. “The era of global warming has ended,” he said. “Short of a mini-Ice Age over the next days, July 2023 will shatter records across the board,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres told a news conference on Thursday. The weather prompted the White House to make its second policy announcement on extreme heat in as many weeks, and a UN weather agency to proclaim it as the hottest month ever - before it was even over. sweltered Friday in temperatures that felt as high as 44 C in population centres like New York, Kansas City and Washington, D.C, as July’s oppressive “heat dome” drifted north.
The hottest month in recorded history is going out with a bang in the United States.
0 kommentar(er)
