Since June 2018, countless regions around the world have been facing hellish temperatures, which have triggered wildfires, ruined crops and killed hundreds of people.
The hottest year ever recorded was 2016, due to an amalgamation of global warming and a strong El Niño episode. Despite that the year 2018 is experiencing the reverse climate event, La Niña — which tends to cool temperatures — June has been declared as one of the hottest months on record.
A heat wave is described as a period of at least five days with a temperature of 5 degrees Celsius above the average.
Global warming is the word used to describe a progressive rise in the average temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere and its oceans, a change that is believed to be forever changing the Earth’s climate. Climate scientists after looking at the data and facts agree that the planet is warming. The scientific accord on climatic changes related to global warming says that the average temperature of the Earth has increased between 0.4 and 0.8 °C over the past 100 years. By the burning of fossil fuels, land clearing, agriculture, and other human activities, the increased volumes of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases released are believed to be the primary sources of the global warming that has occurred over the past 50 years.
The heat hits
30 degrees Celsius, for a south European person, is nothing special. But that is definitely deadly hot for people in the United Kingdom and Ireland, where the normal temperature in June doesn’t exceed 20 degrees. But here we bring you few countries that saw the worst impact of heat wave.
Place Normal temperature Temperature due to heat wave
Irish town of Shannon 5° C 32° C
Germany 4° Celsius 30° Celsius
Georgia 5° Celsius 40.5° Celsius
Los Angeles 13° Celsius 47.2° Celsius
Denver 2° Celsius 40.5° Celsius
Montreal, Canada 1° Celsius 36.6° Celsius (54dead)
Kumagaya , Tokyo 8° Celsius 41.1° Celsius (96dead)
South and North Korea 10° Celsius 40° Celsius (29dead in S. Korea)
Sweden, Finland & Norway -2° Celsius above 32° Celsius
East England 13° Celsius 30° Celsius (700dead in England and Wales)
Ouargla, Algeria 15° Celsius 51.3° Celsius
Spain 8° Celsius 47.3° Celsius Celsius (3dead)
Portugal 11° Celsius 47.4° Celsius
Seoul 7° Celsius 35° Celsius (29 dead)
In a climate change circumstances, extreme heat waves may occur “as often as every two years in the second half of the 21st century. Heat waves have caused much higher fatalities in Europe in recent decades than any other extreme weather event.” -Vladimir Kendrovski, technical officer for climate change and health for the World Health Organization (WHO) regional office for Europe.
Alarming condition in South Asia
South Asia comprises the countries, those are already plagued by the poverty, scarcity of food. Well the story isn’t over yet, as when the heat wave will affect South Asian countries the living standards of already affected poor will be horrified.
“For up to 800 million people in South Asia, climate change could drastically diminish the living conditions, a territory that is already home to some of the world’s poorest and hungriest people if nothing is done to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions” -the World Bank warned in a gloomy new study.
The study took at all six countries of South Asia into account. Northern India faced heat wave with temperatures reaching 47°C. India is particularly exposed to temperature increases correlated with climate change. Since 1992, about 25,000 Indians are estimated to have died because of heat waves. Yet the country is silently optimistic that it can limit at least some of those deaths.
In May 2010 in Ahmedabad, the instigator was a heat wave, the largest city in the western state of Gujarat that killed more than 1,100 people, and urged authorities to ask for help.
“The first thing was making people aware that heat can kill. India is a tropical country, so people are used to heat: they take it as a natural phenomenon. They say it will be hot – what’s new?” -Parthasarathi Ganguly, a professor of public health and former World Health Organization official.
Global call for health
Climate change is a global problem, but it’s also a direct result of our collective actions. It means that we can make a difference but united. It’s high time that we must generate a realization for our actions or we’ll be condemned by nature’s consequences. The unfortunate reality straight away mirrors that our future generation won’t be able to feel the environment as we are.
There are countries to which snowfall is the usual part of life, due to the countries minimum temperature and they are habitual of it, but the gruesome truth is due to heat wave the citizens in those countries are having the sun bath. Because the usual temperature in those countries remains 2 degree Celsius but presently they are facing the harsh temperature of 47 degree Celsius. Still that’s tolerable to human body!
Is this pressurizing situation seeding a thought in your mind? If the current temperature in the national capital remains 40-45 degree Celsius then imagine the living condition after the increase in the temperature due to heat wave. Will that harsh heat be tolerated by the humans in India? Will there life be sustained ?
This is the POINT.
Since June 2018, countless regions around the world have been facing hellish temperatures, which have triggered wildfires, ruined crops and killed hundreds of people.
The hottest year ever recorded was 2016, due to an amalgamation of global warming and a strong El Niño episode. Despite that the year 2018 is experiencing the reverse climate event, La Niña — which tends to cool temperatures — June has been declared as one of the hottest months on record.
A heat wave is described as a period of at least five days with a temperature of 5 degrees Celsius above the average.
Global warming is the word used to describe a progressive rise in the average temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere and its oceans, a change that is believed to be forever changing the Earth’s climate. Climate scientists after looking at the data and facts agree that the planet is warming. The scientific accord on climatic changes related to global warming says that the average temperature of the Earth has increased between 0.4 and 0.8 °C over the past 100 years. By the burning of fossil fuels, land clearing, agriculture, and other human activities, the increased volumes of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases released are believed to be the primary sources of the global warming that has occurred over the past 50 years.
The heat hits
30 degrees Celsius, for a south European person, is nothing special. But that is definitely deadly hot for people in the United Kingdom and Ireland, where the normal temperature in June doesn’t exceed 20 degrees. But here we bring you few countries that saw the worst impact of heat wave.
Place Normal temperature Temperature due to heat wave
Irish town of Shannon 5° C 32° C
Germany 4° Celsius 30° Celsius
Georgia 5° Celsius 40.5° Celsius
Los Angeles 13° Celsius 47.2° Celsius
Denver 2° Celsius 40.5° Celsius
Montreal, Canada 1° Celsius 36.6° Celsius (54dead)
Kumagaya , Tokyo 8° Celsius 41.1° Celsius (96dead)
South and North Korea 10° Celsius 40° Celsius (29dead in S. Korea)
Sweden, Finland & Norway -2° Celsius above 32° Celsius
East England 13° Celsius 30° Celsius (700dead in England and Wales)
Ouargla, Algeria 15° Celsius 51.3° Celsius
Spain 8° Celsius 47.3° Celsius Celsius (3dead)
Portugal 11° Celsius 47.4° Celsius
Seoul 7° Celsius 35° Celsius (29 dead)
In a climate change circumstances, extreme heat waves may occur “as often as every two years in the second half of the 21st century. Heat waves have caused much higher fatalities in Europe in recent decades than any other extreme weather event.” -Vladimir Kendrovski, technical officer for climate change and health for the World Health Organization (WHO) regional office for Europe.
Alarming condition in South Asia
South Asia comprises the countries, those are already plagued by the poverty, scarcity of food. Well the story isn’t over yet, as when the heat wave will affect South Asian countries the living standards of already affected poor will be horrified.
“For up to 800 million people in South Asia, climate change could drastically diminish the living conditions, a territory that is already home to some of the world’s poorest and hungriest people if nothing is done to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions” -the World Bank warned in a gloomy new study.
The study took at all six countries of South Asia into account. Northern India faced heat wave with temperatures reaching 47°C. India is particularly exposed to temperature increases correlated with climate change. Since 1992, about 25,000 Indians are estimated to have died because of heat waves. Yet the country is silently optimistic that it can limit at least some of those deaths.
In May 2010 in Ahmedabad, the instigator was a heat wave, the largest city in the western state of Gujarat that killed more than 1,100 people, and urged authorities to ask for help.
“The first thing was making people aware that heat can kill. India is a tropical country, so people are used to heat: they take it as a natural phenomenon. They say it will be hot – what’s new?” -Parthasarathi Ganguly, a professor of public health and former World Health Organization official.
Global call for health
Climate change is a global problem, but it’s also a direct result of our collective actions. It means that we can make a difference but united. It’s high time that we must generate a realization for our actions or we’ll be condemned by nature’s consequences. The unfortunate reality straight away mirrors that our future generation won’t be able to feel the environment as we are.
There are countries to which snowfall is the usual part of life, due to the countries minimum temperature and they are habitual of it, but the gruesome truth is due to heat wave the citizens in those countries are having the sun bath. Because the usual temperature in those countries remains 2 degree Celsius but presently they are facing the harsh temperature of 47 degree Celsius. Still that’s tolerable to human body!
Is this pressurizing situation seeding a thought in your mind? If the current temperature in the national capital remains 40-45 degree Celsius then imagine the living condition after the increase in the temperature due to heat wave. Will that harsh heat be tolerated by the humans in India? Will there life be sustained ?
This is the POINT.