Wow!: Australian scientists help the homeless beat heatwaves with mobile cooling hubs
CORDELIA HSU, of Reuters, reports…
Western Australia in “extreme” heat wave, raising bush fire risk
Sydney, Australia Reuters Parts of Western Australia were gripped on Saturday by an “extreme” heat-wave, raising the risk of bush fires in the vast state, the nation’s weather forecaster said. The Bureau of Meteorology had an “extreme heat-wave warning” in place on Saturday for the remote Pilbara and Gascoyne areas of Australia’s largest state, warning […]
Heat-related deaths could more than quadruple by mid-century – report
Reuters Heat-related illnesses and deaths are rising as the world warms, an international team of health experts said on Tuesday, forecasting a 370 per cent surge in yearly heat deaths by mid-century if the world warms by two degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. Already, at roughly 1.1 degrees Celsius of warming, people experienced about 86 […]
How the World Scout Jamboree descended into chaos in South Korea
Seoul, South KoreaReuters Overflowing trash bins. Dirty toilets. Bug-infested fields. These were some of the conditions that about 40,000 teenage scouts had to contend with in the past week at the World Scout Jamboree, sending red-faced organisers in South Korea scrambling to fix matters before a looming typhoon forced everyone to leave the ill-fated campsite. […]
Millions swelter across Iberian Peninsula…while storm continues to sweep over the Nordics
Lisbon, Portigal/Madrid, Spain Reuters Millions of people in parts of Portugal and Spain opted to stay inside on Tuesday on the second day of a heatwave sweeping the Iberian Peninsula during peak tourist season that has spurred the spread of wildfires. People queue in the sun outside Almudena Cathedral as they wait to enter the […]
Sight-Seeing: Global warming is here and it is getting worse
US Catholic commentator THOMAS REESE says, in an article first published on Religion News Service, that we are like frogs in a pot of water being slowly cooked and we don’t have the sense to get out of the pot, let alone turn off the heat…
Despite heatwave warnings, South Korea presses on with World Scout Jamboree
Buan, South Korea Reuters South Korea decided on Saturday to press on with hosting the World Scout Jamboree, despite warnings about the dangers posed by the extreme heat the country is enduring, and the US and British contingents pulling out a week early. Tens of thousands of scouts, aged between 14 to 18 years, had […]
StrangeSights: A “lioness” on the loose?; high diving in Kosovo; and, beating the heat with a “facekini”
DAVID ADAMS provides a round-up of some stories on the odder side of life…
Beijing sweats in extreme 40 degrees-plus heat for record third day
Beijing, ChinaReuters Beijing topped 40 degrees Celsius on Saturday for a record third day as the Chinese capital sweltered in extreme heat, while uncommonly high temperatures for June grilled an area the size of California in northern China. At 1:51pm, the temperature measured by Beijing’s benchmark weather station in its southern suburbs briefly soared above […]
Essay: Deadly heatwaves threaten to reverse India’s progress on poverty and inequality – new research
In an article first published on The Conversation, AMIT DEBNATH and RONITA BARDHAN, of the University of Cambridge, say pesent procedures for assessing the sensitivity of India to climate change need to be upgraded to help people resist the exceptional heat seen in recent years…