As heat records fall, how hot is too hot for the human body?

America always leads innovation. Thank you.

Remember pictures of the Sahara Desert? There are no cacti. Recent reports are that cacti in the American deserts are dying, due to the extreme heat. It is so hot that the water inside the cacti is getting cooked off. Will we end up with immense sand dunes, as in the Sahara?

Just a quick fact-check: cold weather kills TEN TIMES more people every year than hot weather does. You'd never know that if you relied on the mainstream mass media for your news.

How hot is too hot?

NOAA classifies it as this:

Caution 80°F - 90°F

Extreme Caution 90°F - 103°F

Danger 103°F - 124°F

Extreme Danger 125°F or higher

Born not far from Singapore and living there for seventeen years I have always hated the tropics. In Europe and, for fifty years in Canada I have always loved the winters and hated the summers. Since I arrived in Canada on the 18th of December, 1966, I have cycled every day. I am of course dressed for the cold with one size larger shoes plus thick wollen socks, half inch thick sheepskin mittens and, a hooded 6000 down winter coat. On very cold days of around minus 25 degrees Celsius I make shorter trips around the city. Every morning and every night I take 6 trays of ice cubes to freeze the water to throw over my head and body to experience great thrills each time. I wake up feeling on top of the world and at night sleep like a baby.

Why publish an article in Japan with temperatures all written in Fahrenheit?

Hello Kitty 321Today  06:58 pm JST

Why publish an article in Japan with temperatures all written in Fahrenheit?

Article originates in the US which is somewhat backward at reporting temperatures but Deg C are in parenthesis, didn't you notice?

Michael MachidaToday  08:18 am JST

America always leads innovation. Thank you.

Of course, as the article confirms: "While more cities in the United States are expanding cooling centers to help people escape the heat, there will still be many people who will experience these dangerous conditions with no way to cool themselves.

Even those with access to air conditioning might not turn it on because of the high cost of energy – a common occurrence in Phoenix – or because of large-scale power outages during heat waves or wildfires, as is becoming more common in the western U.S."

There was an article addressing this issue a few years ago in Scientific American magazine. The author said that already, at that time, parts of the Middle East were too hot at night for humans to survive during the summer months. Among the population centers, parts of Iran were becoming uninhabitable. As if they didn't have enough problems already. The parts of the Earth that will become uninhabitable will expand over the next few hundred years, given that CO2 has a half life of about 100 years in the air.

I think a good argument can be made that the cheapest and most effective way to deal with the many disasters forecast to be coming our way due to global warming, is to try to stop, and then reverse, global warming.

Ben Franklin said that a penny saved was a penny earned. Well, a pound of carbon not dumped into the ecosphere is as good as a pound of carbon sequestered out of the ecosphere.

As heat records fall, how hot is too hot for the human body?

Whatever the government says it is apparently.

Gov't seeks power to turn down private home air conditioners remotely, report says

Nov. 7, 2022  04:35 pm JST  54 Comments

"As reported by Japan’s Nihon Keizai Shimbun, in a meeting on Nov 2, the Energy Conservation Subcommittee of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry resolved to begin working group discussions with the aim of gaining the ability to remotely turn down privately owned air conditioner/heater units"

https://japantoday.com/category/national/Japanese-gov%27t-seeking-power-to-turn-down-private-home-air-conditioners-remotely-report-says

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