Global risk of deadly heat

Climate change can increase the risk of conditions that exceed human thermoregulatory capacity. Although numerous studies report increased mortality associated with extreme heat events quantifying the global risk of heat-related mortality remains challenging due to a lack of comparable data on heat-related deaths. Here we conducted a global analysis of documented lethal heat events to identify the climatic conditions associated with human death and then quantified the current and projected occurrence of such deadly climatic conditions worldwide. We reviewed papers published between 1980 and 2014, and found 783 cases of excess human mortality associated with heat from 164 cities in 36 countries. Based on the climatic conditions of those lethal heat events, we identified a global threshold beyond which daily mean surface air temperature and relative humidity become deadly. Around 30% of the world’s population is currently exposed to climatic conditions exceeding this deadly threshold for at least 20 days a year. By 2100, this percentage is projected to increase to ~48% under a scenario with drastic reductions of greenhouse gas emissions and ~74% under a scenario of growing emissions. An increasing threat to human life from excess heat now seems almost inevitable, but will be greatly aggravated if greenhouse gases are not considerably reduced.

But....jobs....

At least siestas will become more universally acceptable.

It's America's favorite game: Siesta or Heat Stroke!

The carbon footprint of a BLT:
How Your Sandwich Changed The World

You can start by eating seasonally, especially out of your own back yard. Back yard wheat isn't very practical, but tomatoes and lettuce certainly are, and local, foraging pigs also make a huge difference on your CO2 footprint; same goes for homemade mayo from local chickens. I know it's not practical for everyone, but I have to tell you, it makes BLT Season something special! I realy appreciate them when I only have them mid to late summer. Same goes for most in-season fruits and vegetables. Blueberries, strawberries, asparagus, peaches, peppers, cukes, tomatoes etc. I even appreciate the easily storable stuff so much more when I've grown it, like garlic, onions, potatoes, beans, peanuts, apples, and on and on. Eating seasonally also just make eating more interesting and enjoyable, year round.

I found a frog in our garden, but I'm afraid that I didn't eat it.

That's wise. Poisonous frogs are not uncommon, even in the US. And it's not just the obviously colorful ones. And toads! Don't mess with toads. Like wild mushrooms, only eat frogs and toads if you really know what you are doing.

If I could draw, I would respond with a rude webcomic with a naked male anthropomorphic frog lying dead on his marital bed with his tongue out, while his naked frog bride tells the police frog "I didn't know I was poisonous..."

But I can't. So I won't.

Now we just need some asshole in congress to march around with another fucking snowball.

2017. The Year Without a Winter.

This past winter was particularly long, so things must be different where you are.

Mods are a form of speech. You were free to speak and so are they.