We hear the word “unprecedented” a lot these days, whether it’s about heatwaves and heat domes in normally temperate parts of Europe, the huge fire outbreaks around the Mediterranean, or places which never had them before such as western France. We hear it about algal blooms, coral bleaching and fish kills , rapid glacier melting and more frequent and more severe storms. How do we prepare for conditions we’ve never or rarely encountered before? Short of preventing the underlying heating, there are several things which governments and others are doing, beyond greening our cities, adding wetlands and water gardens, insisting on white roofs and so on, which we've discussed before. In this post I will mainly be talking about the impact on human health and some of the new mitigation measures being applied. Extreme Heat Many countries have been experiencing unusually high temperatures this month with even Nordic countries and the Arctic bein...
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