Posted on 06/22/2022 7:48:53 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
From higher electricity bills to worsened health, more than half of Americans have felt the impacts of extreme heat, according to a new survey released by NPR, Harvard University and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. That percentage is even higher in California, where heat was the top climate impact, reported by 71% of those surveyed.
Nationally, poll results underline how people consciously connect climate change to their health. Nearly one-quarter of those who experienced extreme weather in the past five years said someone in their household had a serious health problem as a result. And perceived health impacts don't fall equally, according to poll respondents: Overall, 11% of Americans personally affected by heat say their households have faced serious health problems resulting from a lack of air conditioning in their homes. Even greater shares of Native American, Latino, Black and Asian adults agreed with that sentiment.
In a letter of support for the bill, public health officers, emergency room physicians and health researchers pointed out that the health risks of heat are worse for Black Americans and Latinos, outdoor workers and city dwellers, writing that "in an average Los Angeles summer ... there is an 8% increase in total mortality on the hottest days."
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In my lifetime, the winters are a little warmer, the summers a little cooler.
Interesting. It happens that I connect “public radio” with lying, political idiocy, and general inability to understand even the most simple science. This is, of course, why only those who cannot do anything useful go into ‘gubmit’ supported party-line radio.
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Were any of those polled farmers?
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Victimhood. Much easier than admitting most are fat and out of shape, which is why they have medical problems.
Here in southeast Texas, the winters are a little warmer, the summers (and springs) are a lot hotter.
The point of this, at least for me, it is my perceptions that have changed with decades central HVAC. Thus, temperature changes seem exaggerated. I've known all along there really hasn't been a significant difference in temperatures. It has been my life that changed, not the climate.
I owe it to the fact the older I get the less I can tolerate the heat or cold.....and I’m old enough to make that judgement call.
Just two years ago I began using air conditioning. And in winter keep my home warmer than before. Both because of comfort.
Warmer temperatures Oct-May. In the summer months the temperatures are not getting hotter. They will claim they are by using average temperatures (low temperatures are increasing). Or they will pick downtown stations or stations next the runway at the airport. Or they will throw away data before 1960. But looking at the highest temperatures away from the city, those are flat over the past century.
The propaganda is working
Don't buy the scam because CO2 is a trace gas in our atmosphere with only 1 part per 5000 moving up to 2 parts per 5000. CO2 does nothing but feed plants.
Source: http://www.fossilworld.com/FW/GW_Ice_Age.html
Here is more:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interglacial
https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/how-long-can-we-expect-present-interglacial-period-last
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/glacial-interglacial-cycle
LOL, I'm not "buying the scam". But it is hotter in Texas. We've had more days over 100° this spring than we usually have all year (we do not usually even hit the high 90's in spring). This week, we are expected to be in the hundreds through Sunday. I think this is our third week in a row in the hundreds. We're usually in the low 90's in June. I don't believe in man-made climate change, but it is hotter here.
It’s called mass hysteria. Similar to how the lives of people who believe in astrology parallel their horoscopes. People are told that GW is making them ill and many will get ill.
Lets see what happens when people freeze to death this winter because they can’t afford to heat their homes.
I have lived both in Houston, Texas in Phoenix, Arizona and I consider Texas weather to be hotter just because of the humidity effect. You just can’t cool off by sweating in Texas. With the humidity and being in the 100’s it has to be brutal.
Methodologically invalid of course. Questions are preset to elicit the desired results. Deliberately misleads respondents to identify “extreme weather events” with “climate change.” Begins by asking respondents to focus on any “harm” they have suffered from “extreme weather events,” which then has an influence on the rest of the answers.
Careful reading of original sources can be tedious but it repays in terms of critical judgment.
Yes, the humidity is what kills us. I've been to Phoenix, and while it was hotter there (around 110° or more), I did not feel terribly uncomfortable. As long as I was covered and not being burned by direct sunlight, the evaporation of my sweat really did have a cooling effect.
Because sweat does not evaporate here, you just get wetter. Those cloths that you wet and put on your neck for cooling do not help at all here; they just add to the wetness. As I drove home a few days ago I had to make a stop at Sam's for a couple of items. By the time I left my air-conditioned truck, walked across the hot parking lot, bought my items and walked back to my truck, I was already so wet with sweat I had to change when I got home.
Those folks surveyed in California are on the top of the “dumb-ass” spectrum. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. Always been that way in my 74 years.
As a hiker froze to death and many others with hypothermia had to be rescued in New Hampshire a few days ago in JUNE.
Yep,been a very cold spring again this year
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