It is about physical health of people. Climate Crisis temperatures are very dangerous.

August 13, 2022
By Rachel Ramirez

People cool off at a fountain in Piazza del Popolo in Rome in early August.

It is important to keep the head cool. He is doing the absolutely best thing by cooling his head. Think of neck veins and the blood flowing through them. Personal cooling appliances around the neck work, right? There is a reason for that. Cooler neck veins, cool the blood and that blood goes up to the circle of Willis and down to the heart to distribute it around the body. So cooling the head is also cooling the body.

Extreme heat is on the rise around the world, (click here) and a new study shows it is taking a significant toll not just on our physical health but also our sense of well-being.

A new analysis by Gallup in collaboration with Citi, shared first with CNN, found that people who experienced extreme heat -- days that were significantly hotter than normal -- also reported a decrease in their sense of well-being around the same time. On average, the global population experienced three times as many extreme heat days in 2020 than it did in 2008, Gallup reported, and well-being decreased globally by 6.5% in that time as well.

Researchers also found that because the climate crisis is pushing temperatures even hotter, global well-being could decrease by another 17% by the end of this decade....

The climate crisis is very hard on Americans. Very hard.

January 5, 2022

By Sarah Kaplan

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Andrew Ba Tran

Alzile Marie Hand, 66, right, is comforted by her son Thomas James Hand, 19, outside their damaged house after Hurricane Ida passed through in Houma, La., on Aug. 30. 

2021 ended as it began: (click here) with disaster. Twelve months after an atmospheric river deluged California, triggering mudslides in burned landscapes and leaving a half-million people without power, a late-season wildfire destroyed hundreds of homes in the suburbs of Denver. In between, Americans suffered blistering heat waves, merciless droughts and monstrous hurricanes. People collapsed in farm fields and drowned in basement apartments; entire communities were obliterated by surging seas and encroaching flames.

More than 4 in 10 Americans live in a county that was struck by climate-related extreme weather last year, according to a new Washington Post analysis of federal disaster declarations, and more than 80 percent experienced a heat wave. In the country that has generated more greenhouse gases than any other nation in history, global warming is expanding its reach and exacting an escalating toll....