Heat stress can turn deadly even sooner than experts thought. Are new warnings needed?
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- čas přidán 24. 07. 2024
- In the era of climate change and warming temperatures, the impact of extreme heat on people over the age of 65 is a serious public health issue because they are the most vulnerable to heat illness and death.
New research from Penn State University found that extreme heat can begin to stress the human body at much lower levels of heat and humidity than previously thought.
"Heat stress is what kills," said Dr. Larry Kenney, a Penn State professor of physiology and kinesiology who specializes in how the body regulates temperature, particularly for seniors.
Texas legislators REFUSED to protect outdoor workers with regulations for mandatory breaks from work in high temps! Outrageous disregard for fellow men! So much for all their bible talk.
So we need to keep adding laws? Wrong.
@@gdiup9241 Wow, you're SO right! Let's do nothing!
@@homeiswonderland That is what OSHA is for, have you heard of it?
@@gdiup9241 well, apparently Texas is ignorant of such agencies...
They use the Bible and their perverted “Christian” values as justification for doing nothing. If a person dies, they are in a “better place”.
Older people even before this climate change had a hard time with extreme temps and humidity.
Yeah, women a long time ago already used to be raped and abused by men. We don't need more laws to change anything.
No climate change.
That's what THEY said, must be true.
Now that I'm older I can't handle cutting the lawn with upper 80's & high humidity. I will get nauseous & vomit uncontrollably until I get cooled down. I was never like this in the past!
I found that "feel like" temperatures of over 90 degrees, then I need to cut back now.
Buy an ice vest. Like the cooling packs you keep lunch meat cold for a picnic, but you wear it. And/or replace the lawn with native plants. Lawns are Satans pubic hair.
I can't figure out why I get so sick once it hits 74 or 5. 🥵😵💫🤢😵💫🥵
It was NEVER this HOT before. If you're older you know bc you remember. Use EXTREME caution and stay OUT of the sun. If you MUST mow and can't afford to pay someone...do it the earliest time of day you can. Some towns have ordinances in place, like ours, you can't mow before 7am, although a lot do and no one minds bc we all know the Sun has become much stronger and the Ultra Violet (UV) radiation is devastating. Avoid exposure.
Gee. I guess if your comment doesn't align with climate change, it gets removed.
My heart breaks for the man who lost his mother in May!!!
NO 'HOA" should have this kind of power!!!!! WHO ARE THEY to decide they aren't turning the A/C on when especially when it's a SENIOR APARTMENT and it's HOT? This year we hit the 90's in APRIL! So should they ALL DIE? They should NOT be able to foreclose on homes, or tell people what to do with their own private property. They are being given FAR too much power and I want to know WHY! bc it's happening all over, not just one state.
I don't understand how it can be legal to only turn on the a/c at a certain date. ... In Germany, we have standards for heating. You must be able to heat your place to at least 18 degrees Celsius. If it gets cold enough in summer that you need heating for that, then the landlord must turn on the heating. ... The same should go for the a/c. There should be a maximum temperature, and if it's hotter, they need to turn on the a/c. BEFORE people die.
I live in tx. When I work outside in the summer I start at 6;30 am and finish by 9;00 am. I’m too old to work in the heat and humidity.
🤣 I live in northern NY state...and run the same schedule as you do, for the same reason; it's too damned hot anymore 🥵
If it gets so hot just fill your bathtub with cold water and lie in it.
I'm a big fat guy and have to drop 100lbs so I can actually function in temps above 25c... this is gonna be a big wake up call for big people.
No global warming here in Ireland. Its cool and wet this summer month of June . And I still bring 2 hot water bottles to bed every night to keep warm .
😂😂😂🎉
I live in the northeastern part of the USA. From May through September, I run my air conditioners and sleep under a light blanket and use my two "hot water" [bottles] to keep me comfortable, too. Except, my two "hot water bottles" are my two labrador retrievers! 🤣
My osteoarthritis becomes worse during extreme cold or hot temps! I USE to be very fit n healthy meny years ago but now at 50 years old I cannot do even half of wot I USE to be able to do 😐
67,000 died in the EU from heat in 2022.
Cold kills alot more
@@davidwestwater2219Maybe. But adding another blanket or sweater or pair of socks can always keep you warmer during the winter. Even an outdoor firepit can help. But, in summer, aside from stripping down naked and swimming, there really isn't a way to get *cooler.* And if the temps are *TOO* high, even the water won't cool you off enough. Instead, you become soup. 🥵
@@davidwestwater2219 Heat kills more than tornadoes, earth quakes and floods combined.
115 °F is 45 °C. That's freaking hot.
87 °F is 30.5 °C.
I labor in the Miami heat and humidity. Next year, supposedly, we are having a solar max.
Solar activities, those variables will contribute, along with any sort of volcanic activity on a global scale. But the alarmists always overlook these factors. Change is the natural order of all things on the Earth, of all living things and of everything in the Universe.
@@markasteelsr.5990 Well this change could limit our ability to survive so...
@@homeiswonderlandis the law of nature not to adapt and evolve or face extinction?
@@kingjsolomon you're right, the Planet Earth will be fine. The humans *living* on it, not so much...
Even at solar max, the energy the earth receives from the sun is only 0.1% higher than average. Yes, it contributes but pales in comparison to the effect of greenhouse gases.
Built bridges, worked steel mills, roofing , oil field in summer in Odessa TX.. I have been there..
Yes! But this is only a beginning of new era.
Yeah but who are those experts?
Well, I wanna do the mouthpiece, noseclips, and large spongy hoses.
Your life expectancy is 60 at best. After 50 your lease on life has expired. I worked a blast furnace for 15 years with temps nearly 3,000 degrees in summer and as low as -30 degrees in winter. During that entire period only 2 reported cases of heat stress was recorded and reported to OSHA. We were an OSHA approved facility.
That's right! Respect your corporate overlords! Freedom and a high quality of life is highly overrated anyway. Just keep sucking on that authoritarian teat, you're doing great! (putz)
You survived working INSIDE a 3k degree oven? No? Then what the fuck does that data point matter? You are intentionally conflating information, or are an idiot.
Life expectancy varies by country and, in the U.S., by region. In my area, the average life expectancy is 79 years for those born today, 2 years longer than the national average. More importantly, life expectancy goes UP the older a person gets. The life expectancy for a healthy 60 year old man today is 82. For a healthy 70 year old man it is 85. I’m 74 and choose to live a healthy lifestyle so I increase my odds of living into my 80s or possibly even my 90s.
60?!😂😂😂 that’s it?!
@@Phoenixhunter157 - sounds to me like he destroyed his lungs working at his blast furnace job and knows he’s on the way out.
The military came out with uniforms that cut down on heat IDthermal scope I had 2 heat strokes in the field
"There are huge non climate effects of carbon dioxide which are overwhelmingly favorable which are not taken into account. To me that's the main issue that the earth is actually growing greener. This has been actually measured from satellites the whole earth is growing greener as a result of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. So it's increasing agricultural yields, it's increasing the forests, it's increasing all kinds of growth in the biological world and that's more important and more certain than the effects on climate." ~Freeman Dyson, Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
CO2 is not pollution and if you think it is try living without it. If CO2 is as deadly as they say wouldn't it make sense to stop compressing it into canisters and then putting it back into fountain drinks at fast food restaurants etc.
With how little people care for one another and how hard it is to be heard if concerns are legitimate, I believe the situation will only worsen. While I know of a better method to address all of this madness, it will take me a couple of months. Governments are failing as representatives of their country or... doing exactly what they are meant to do: cover the baseline and make money (even if the bigger ones can print it without much if any fluctuation in the value of a currency).
Money=power and the result is people who will do anything and legislate anything for money
EVERYBODY SHOULD WATCH THIS!
I rem before ac old people just died off god help us when they drop the EMP
Rawalpind pakistan
May 15__27 June 42 __48°c highest heat index ystrday 26 Jun 57° c
1000 for in Karachi city alone
Can't afford hydro to use my ac😕
There are billions of people, isn't this a good thing?
Millions will die in weeks
Thank you for covering this story. Mr. Rye is right, we can do better for our seniors. Frankly it's in our best interest to take care of the elderly. As climate change continues to unfold we need to start getting proactive about protecting the most vulnerable, because we're ALL going to find ourselves more vulnerable to this crisis over time.
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What Climate Change group's PAYROLL is DS on?!
What a complete load of crap.
wait a minute, where the f was her son for those 3 days of extreme heat, didn't he even call her to find out how she was doing, has he not ever heard of portable air conditioners, which cost less than 300 bucks!!! own you hypocrite, you didn't care about your mum enough
You want a true test, then test younger people.
Temps are no warmer where I live now than they were growing up 50 years ago. Some days are hot and some not. The fact there are so many fat unhealthy people in America is by far the bigger health problem. This is a hot planet around the middle. If you don't want the heat move north. Then you can complain about how dangerous the cold is.
36 million years ago there were jungles in the arctic regions. The planet can warm and cool, and the chemical composition of the atmosphere determines this. Too much CO2 and we get warming. It’s basic chemistry
So did you know that the Sahara desert was once a Jungle? My point if we don’t tie excessive heat to UN mandates for expensive Climate Change and do what has to be done in our nation for people who need help now, we will be OK. Americans First.
It's when the water vapor in some humid, hot areas has little chance to expand a long distance because outside the temp is even higher and the air is drier, that we feel the stress. The outside heat enter the areas, while increased moisture stay put there, due to the rule of least resistance. Dry air doesn't let heat travel so easy compared to humid air.
The global relative humidity over land has decreased for decades now. So when it's hot now that extreme is worse, and when it's cool that extreme is also worse.
We must let more trees/bushes transpire in the areas - that will create wind - like in the Amazonas untill recently. Too much moisture will be divided along fog, wind and percipitation over land and into the air above the seas, to travel further... a good domino effect if other areas are involved!
Did you also know that CO2 caused the greatest mass extinction in world history. The Permian extinction destroyed 90% of all life in earth due to volcanic CO2. The heat wrecked the oceans causing mass die offs that resulted in the worst perilous of dying the world has ever seen. CO2 I an important part of our atmosphere, but too much is lethal.
Daily hot tub at 105 is a great resource. 15 minutes
Climate change😂😂😂😂
Define extreme.
Woke information that Texas overcame. Let us rejoice our loved ones are now with the Lord at his time as he blessed us with the heat emergency so that he can collect those who are not Texas/Florida strong.
@@zAlaska What is “woke” and how do you know what it is? 🤷🏼 You’re woke.
@@albertmiller3082 I just repeating what they said
More climate change histeria ;(
Can't face facts, eh?
Too bad, so sad.
My condolences to your parents.
More bullshite
3x hospitalized for heat stroke. I definitely feel like I'm living on borrowed time. SACRAMENTO CA 😢