NBC News: President Joe Biden is under increasing pressure from lawmakers and state and local officials to do more to address an extreme heat crisis that has defined the summer of 2023. … The Biden administration plans to announce on Wednesday a new federal system to track heat-related illness nationwide and is considering additional measures amid pressure to do more to help Americans deal with crippling summer heat, according to White House officials. …
The new national dashboard, which will be overseen by the Health and Human Services Department, maps emergency services responding to heat-related illness calls across the country, officials said. The “EMS HeatTracker” is intended to help ensure sufficient medical aid gets to Americans who need it most during severe heat, officials said. … “Heat is no longer a silent killer. From coast-to-coast, communities are battling to keep people cool, safe and alive due to the growing impacts of the climate crisis,” Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a statement. …
One of the challenges, even if FEMA could declare a disaster for heat, would be deciding how to deploy teams to a weather event that could span dozens of states at a time and could go on for unpredictable amount of time, whereas other natural disasters are usually more limited in location and duration.
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What Heatwave? Latest NOAA Data Show July Temperature in U.S. was Normal
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Marc Morano: “Get ready CNN and MSNBC to pound stories like this frequently, and couple it with daily tallies of an alleged climate change ‘death toll’, all designed to spur calls for the need to take drastic ‘climate action’ to stop the deaths from our alleged ‘climate emergency.’”
By: Admin – Climate Depot
By Monica Alba and Peter Nicholas
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration plans to announce on Wednesday a new federal system to track heat-related illness nationwide and is considering additional measures amid pressure to do more to help Americans deal with crippling summer heat, according to White House officials.
The new national dashboard, which will be overseen by the Health and Human Services Department, maps emergency services responding to heat-related illness calls across the country, officials said. The “EMS HeatTracker” is intended to help ensure sufficient medical aid gets to Americans who need it most during severe heat, officials said.
“Heat is no longer a silent killer. From coast-to-coast, communities are battling to keep people cool, safe and alive due to the growing impacts of the climate crisis,” Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a statement. “President Biden is committed to providing communities with the resources they need to stay safe.”
Federal data shows that millions have experienced unprecedented stretches of record-breaking temperatures, with little respite, making heat waves the largest weather-related killer nationwide.
Biden is under increasing pressure from lawmakers, local and state elected officials and Americans across the country to do more to address an extreme heat crisis that has defined the summer of 2023. The issue has elicited calls from some of the president’s key supporters as he campaigns for reelection — namely climate activists and elected Democrats — to take stronger action, such as formally declaring a climate “emergency.”
While the president hasn’t formally declared a climate emergency, he argued in a recent interview that his administration has “in practice.” “We already done that. Nationally, we’ve conserved more land. We’ve moved into rejoining the Paris Climate Accord. We passed a $360 billion climate control facility,” he said.
White House officials said discussions about possible additional measures are ongoing. For now, they hope Wednesday’s announcement will be welcomed, while acknowledging some limitations the government has when it comes to heat.
Officials said the “EMS HeatTracker” will break down patient characteristics by age, race, gender and urbanicity so local officials can better understand which populations are most at-risk for heat-related illness or death.
More people die from extreme heat than floods, hurricanes and tornadoes combined, according to National Weather Service figures cited by Biden this week. But the Federal Emergency Management Agency is restricted in what it can do to allocate critical resources for heat crises in the way it can for other deadly disasters.
Lawmakers like Arizona Rep. Ruben Gallego, who introduced the “Extreme Heat Emergency Act” in June, are calling on the Biden administration to do more, particularly to address recent life-threatening temperatures in Phoenix, which saw 31 straight days of 110-degree highs.
Gallego told MSNBC on Tuesday that he personally appealed to Biden on the tarmac after Air Force One touched down in Arizona this week.
“It’s only going to get worse. FEMA has not been very responsive to this growing problem. We Arizonans pay taxes to the federal government and we should be able to receive some of those services back because it is severely taxing a lot of our municipalities and counties trying to deal with this extreme heat,” Gallego said. “We need them to understand that this is a very severe situation.”
For many, the unrelenting heat in places like Phoenix has led residents to alter the way they do basic, everyday tasks.
Valerie Harris, who chairs a local Democratic Party organization, said that she wakes up before dawn just to walk her family’s two 10-pound dogs so they don’t suffer in the heat.
“I’ve lived here more than 50 years. It’s literally getting hotter and hotter,” Harris said. One of her dogs, a chihuahua, “has no hair and it’s too hot for him. The pavement gets so hot. We get up literally before the sun comes up so that we can walk him around the block.”
Marilyn Behrens, secretary of the group, said: “The overnight lows are so warm. When it doesn’t get below 90 degrees at night, it exhausts you in a different way.”
Arizona officials have pointed to the fact that the nighttime is considered just as dangerous as the daytime in some instances because high temperatures aren’t coming down enough and many people can’t afford the proper air conditioning to contend with such overwhelming warmth.
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Last month, the U.S. Conference of Mayors and the National League of Cities urged Congress to act quickly in a series of letters.
“Enabling extreme heat events as eligible for disaster declarations would widen the amount of crucial federal resources available to cities as they continue to work towards saving lives, protecting infrastructure, and adapting to the impacts of a rapidly warming climate,” wrote Tom Cochran, CEO of the Conference of Mayors, which represents 1,400 cities.
Typically, when a major winter storm is looming, states and municipalities can ask the federal government for things like snow plows or heating centers. That’s not the case with oppressive heat.
The White House has taken action to help Americans battle blazing temperatures but states like California, Arizona and Nevada say they would like to see even more cooling centers and water stations for those who are experiencing homelessness.
One of the challenges, even if FEMA could declare a disaster for heat, would be deciding how to deploy teams to a weather event that could span dozens of states at a time and could go on for unpredictable amount of time, whereas other natural disasters are usually more limited in location and duration.
Another issue is just how FEMA would delegate resources, since it currently offers individual and public assistance for damage from things like tornadoes and hurricanes, but heat affects people more than it does infrastructure.
In its existence, FEMA has only received three requests for extreme heat declarations (two in 1980 and one in 1995), and all were denied because “they did not demonstrate that state and local capacity had been exceeded,” an agency spokesperson said.
“The most effective way to save lives from extreme heat incidents will be through an increased focus on preparedness and resilience,” the spokesperson told NBC News. “Key actions include improved messaging and public education, modifying structures and landscapes to reduce urban heat impacts, and addressing economic issues or other community challenges that result in lack of access to air conditioning.”
Some cities have appointed chief heat officers to help manage the blistering temperatures. White House officials said the president fully supports such moves, encouraging states to do everything they can on their own.
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Maybe a climate controlled facility, that I could believe.
Everywhere I’ve been this summer has been cooler than normal. Even had to go inside to drink beer in Munich.
If everyone would just pay me to travel to more places, I could take care of the problem.
Its like Alice and the Red Queen, Jam every other day, never jam today.
It’s always breaking records SomeWhere Else.
There are 100’s of thousands of cities, villages, townships, etc around the world, and most of them make records of temperature. There is no quality control on most of these. Also most of them are less than 100 years old.
Statistically you would expect hundreds of record highs to be made everyday.
It’s been mostly cooler than normal here in Grand Rapids, MI. Most of May was cool, except a heat wave a month long started in the last week. June may have set several heat records, and was dry – but the high temperatures were no higher than an average July. July and August this year were cooler than usual. My electric usage for the year is down about 25% so far.
Or maybe the climate control facility that Biden claims to have built.
Biden says he has spent $60 billion–or maybe it is $360 billion–I have seen both numbers– on such a facility. It must be really great wherever it is.
Well, Joe Biden went so far as to declare the US already has a climate control facility.
(Ref: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/08/10/if-biden-declares-a-climate-emergency-he-would-seize-130-new-powers-seeks-repeat-of-covid-style-lockdowns-with-bypassing-of-democracy-morano-responds/ )
All the evidence says that it is NOT working . . . but no big surprise there.
Hysteria over heat deaths? How does that compare with fentanyl deaths or drinking and driving deaths? Where are the priorities? Or does pushing an agenda come first?
“cities have appointed chief heat officers to help manage the blistering temperatures.”
Something appears to be wrong, They don’t seem to be working it correctly.
Remember, all, this is the so-called “WH” whose upvote to downvote ratio on their YT vids was on the order of 1:10 … these folks are _not_ popular. They (this ‘WH’) are also the reason YT made the unilateral decision to remove the showing, the display of downvote counts!
How about Temperature-Related death? Cold kills far more than heat.
Is this really true? I cannot link an article that shows that cold kills more. It seems recently that numerous sources, MSM, info on the internet, a government report, etc. have shown and stated that heat causes more deaths. I agree that here on WUWT it has been stated numerous times that cold kills more than heat. Very confusing topic.
Retiredinky, seriously? Even Google won’t lead you astray on that topic!
Seriously? Even a quick search reveals this from Monash University
..and that’s from monash – Australia’s leading CAGW “hub of excellence”. possibly tying for first place with ANU.
Monash – The nation’s biggest woke, post-modern, lefty loony nursery.
SteveG B.Woke (Hons.)
Table 2 here. Fig 3 received complaints for changing the cold deaths units on the x-axis
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(23)00023-2/fulltext
dinky, I got one for you:
In very, very poor areas, only the very weak and neglected are likely to die of dehydration and heat stroke. Heat stroke is a common problem around here. You know what kills way more people?
Shanty town neigbourhoods going up in flames because someone neglected the hearth, or fell asleep with a heater on.
I forgetted the extremely high incidence of lung disease from the open fires in small quaters, not to metion the solvents and things in the treated, painted etc wood carried home from wherever it was found. It is even common to burn plastic.
Cold kills a lo-o-ot more people than just hypothermia.
That green stuff they treat outdoor timber with…
… do they still use copper ARSINATE ?
Do not burn !
I surmise that you don’t really read WUWT that much.
As a rule of thumb, excess cold kills ten time more people than excess heat.
See: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/07/29/the-lancets-scientific-chicanery-on-mortality-exposed-by-co2-coalition/
That’s the impression they want to give. Others have given this link (below) which illustrates both the false impression they want to give and, if you pay attention to the bottom scale (the X axis), you can see past the impression given and see cold cause more, many more, deaths.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/07/29/the-lancets-scientific-chicanery-on-mortality-exposed-by-co2-coalition/
PS Regarding Brandon and the MSM, pay attention to the phrasing.
If they say something like “There have been more heat related deaths this summer than cold related deaths.” or only hype heat related deaths this summer or if they include deaths from fighting or getting caught in a wildfire, they are being intentionally misleading.
Really ?
I managed the following in less than 15 minutes “work”.
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URL 1 : https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(21)00081-4/fulltext
Zhao et al (2021), also in the Lancet, for global numbers :
That’s just over 9:1 cold:heat (= 90% cold-related, 10% heat-related).
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URL 2 : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01872-6
Kephart et al (2022), In Nature (Medcine), for Latin America :
That’s “only” ~7.5:1 though.
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URL 3 : https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(23)00023-2/fulltext
Masselot et al (2023), in the Lancet again, for European cities :
That’s 10:1, or 91% cold-related to 9% heat-related.
New German study.
Warm saves lives… Cold takes lives
Winter Cold, Darkness Kill, While Summer Heat And Sun Save Lives Data Clearly Show (notrickszone.com)
Bottom line. SEND MONEY!!!
barryjo,
Sorry, I have to disagree strenuously . . . it’s not at all about asking people to send money to address a “climate crises”.
At its heart-and soul, it has everything to do with fronting a meme to justify governments imposing ADDITIONAL TAXES on people without them voting on such!
Yes!
Bottom Line: government will TAKE our money and we’d better be happy about it, climate saviours that we are.
Taxes are just a means to an end. It’s about control.
Control; yes.
All the measures about heating, diet, transportation, freedom of association [remember the Lock-ups for WuFlu?], and even freedom of speech – https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/national-student-survey-2023-positive-data-freedom-speech – seem to be about control.
I fear a lot of people are not mentally ready for this gradual creeping grip on our lives; but if there is anger, it may be inchoate.
We need to keep the idea that our culture, even our civilisation – is at risk in front of a wide audience – if we can.
Auto
There is no 100% green electricity production – wind/solar must include mining and manufacturing which are definitely not 100% green. CO2 is the foundation warmists use to build their story but it is a faulty foundation. Thorium Liquid Salts Cooled Reactors can provide safe abundant cheap electricity for the world.
Exactly! The crooks use “optional starting and stopping” they start counting after all the C02 has been produced in making the ruinables.
…and they stop counting the day it is thrown away, at which point they insist it has served the 25 years at maximum plate capacity, as (only they themselves, not the factory) advertised.
Just the other day, I read how a panel farm, built in 2009, was upgraded in 2020, after serving its expected 25 year lifetime. The people concerned had a formal catered event to celebrate their success, I’m sure.
Thorium v uranium – no one cares. What we need is here now technology in massive quantitites, That happens to be uranium by and large. Solve the energy crisis first, THEN look into thorium.
If a form is produced that has a check box for “heat related”, it will certainly be checked more often than when the checkbox did not exist….thus contributing to a “major increase” in heat related issues. Smart are these story spinners….
The form will have 3 choices for cause of death:
1) COVID
2) Climate change
3) All of the above.
Allow me to be the first to add this link to every single mention of this stupid waste of time and resources; keeping track of imaginary pandemics.
https://usdebtclock.org/world-debt-clock.html
…which brings us, of course, to the long-promised “Climate Lockdown”. They’re going to do it for our health!
May I implore everyone else to troll every sod repeating this stupid nonsense, with the link above, possibly embedded, if you can.
If the government really wanted to help people deal with the heat better, they would hand out air conditioners, and keep electricity reliable and inexpensive. They are not doing any of those things, or even talking about them.
We commoners are expendable.
If not being able to keep cools, causes a lot of people to die, then that will just be more proof of how deadly climate change is.
All the more reason to double down on their policies.
In their view more deaths is a good thing.
First it removes a portion of the excess humans on the planet.
Second, those deaths will be blamed on climate change and used to increase their power.
If they were serious about reducing heat deaths, they’d have charged California’s governors and legislators with manslaughter for what they’ve done to reliable peak-load power generation.
One only need hark back to some of mankind’s earliest learned teachers to see what should have been learned by now. To wit:
The Boy Who Cried Wolf — Aesop
The Sky is Falling . . . The Story of Chicken Little (Henny Penny)
—old folk tale, author unknown
Oh, and there’s another philosopher/teacher whose advice is very pertinent regarding such advice as applied to declaring a “climate crises” where no such thing is logically or scientifically warranted at this time:
“Those who do not learn the lesson of history are doomed to repeat it.”
— attributed to George Santayana
People have had to deal with heat for centuries. Is it just possible that in today’s world, people have become so dependent on being coddled by the government that they have no common sense to deal with anything on their own? One of the most important things in dealing with heat is to be honest and know your own limits. Heat is not the time to show how “macho” you think you are.
After 50+ years of farming/ranching mostly outdoors in all types of weather in the NW my
view on this issue is that there is no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing.
Back in the early days of open station tractors we would schedule the time running
them, when it got too hot we would shut down and “shade up”. Start early and when the
hay starts to shatter stop baling and start stacking and clear what was baled early then
quit. It’s not rocket science.
A “boonie hat” soaked in water and rung out make a good poor mans air conditioning.
The hottest weather I can remember was back in the early ’70’s I rode a motorcycle
up I-15 in early July. I went thu Vegas around noon and was in Death Valley a couple
of hours later..I remember a thermometer at a stop reading 125. I had been in heat
before but that was brutal on a motorcycle.
“a ‘national dashboard’ for tracking ‘heat-related illnesses nationwide’
Well, that will be a far less onerous task than creating a ‘national dashboard’ for tracking cold-related illnesses nationwide.
“Latest NOAA Data Show July Temperature in U.S. was Normal”
Ah, but therein lies the [narrative’s] deception. Normal as we once understood it has been redefined throughout the public realm.
Today, even a light breeze gets a name – light breeze Brian etc – and so even a day of rain is now a sign of impending climate doom – even if the plants do need it. So what, looking out of your window, appears to be normal is in fact anything but normal
“The accompanying rise in temperatures is propelling the planet into “uncharted territory” says the [State of the Climate] report, with increasing impacts across the planet.
“Extreme events are the new norm,” said WMO’s Prof Petteri Taalas. “There is mounting scientific evidence that some of these bear the footprint of human-induced climate change.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59105963
Everyone – but skeptical, inquiring minds – is on board.
Of course the media will treat each year’s high as if every single “heat” related death was caused by global warming, as if prior to this year, nobody had ever died from heat related causes before.
I just scanned the daily record highs for my little spot in the USA.
There were only 4 new record highs for 2023, 3 in February and 1 in March.
The summer here has been relatively mild.
(Still lots of records highs in the 30’s, particularly 1934 and 1936.)
Interesting….one would think that if the world is getting warmer, and the number of weather stations increases…..there should be MANY more records broken now than in the 30’s….
Who says the number of weather stations is increasing? The vaunted NOAA GHCN-Monthly data set has only aout 8000 stations worldwide, and 61% of them are in the US, Russia, Australia, and China.
How many were there in, say, the 1950’s, the 1940’s, the 1970’s, the 1070’s?
An honest look says that we don’t know. We have written records of the various warm periods in the ancient past. They actually happened. We just don’t know the actual temperature when Vikings grew barley on the southern tip of Greenland or grapes were grown in the northern parts of the UK. We definitely what the ambient temperatures were in any of those periods.
How many temperature stations were there in, say, the 1930’s.
Where in our Constitution does the Federal government have the authority to address an “extreme heat crisis”?
Simple minds like mine would assume that the various states would each require a different approach.
All the Federal government can do is throw money to the various States, but guess where that money comes from.
Nationally, we’ve conserved more land.
All part of the federal hammer over the states. All land in the original 13 states belongs to those states except for land purchased by the federal government. In any states added since, the feds have retained huge portions of the property. Of the 640 million acres of federal land 92% is in 12 western states. In other words, the eastern states own huge portions of the western states, who own nothing of the east.
Conserved more land usually boils down to kicked the people who lived there out and made it so that one needs to have special permission to visit those lands. Which usually means from now on, unless you are one of the elite, the land might as well not exist.
I hope this “dashboard” works as well as the Obamacare online portal.
Ah, ‘fond’ memories.
“Some cities have appointed chief heat officers.” That’s a job even better than the California Lieutenant Governor. Probably a partisan office.
Quote:“ overseen by the Health and Human Services Department, maps
Is someone telling us that US Gov’t also supplies inhuman services?
Mmmmmm, I’m a little puzzled that this dashboard thing doesn’t exist already.
It troubles even more that without it, how do they or anybody know there’s a climate crisis unfolding?
It gives them a new set of stats to misunderstand and/or manipulate.
If I get sick and run a fever, will that be a “heat related” illness?
Football season in the US is coming up. If a player develops a leg cramp, will that be a “heat related” illness?
Every number from the new thing will be reported as a new record.
Climate change turned me into a newt.
But I got better . . .
The climate change agenda, is certainly newtering a lot of people. ! 😉
Next up –
White House pledges $4billion to control spread of misinformation about zombies.
“Zombie outbreaks are real, human caused and dangerous”
– B. Obama
Too little too late! If only they had started this in May, before it got hot. Within a month summer will be over and the crisis will abate for another nine months.
Reported temperatures in LA each at least 100F in the general vicinity of New Years day, adiabatic heating from Santa Ana Winds. There is always an opportunity if you just keep your eyes open.
What are this people following?? Are they just passing legislation based on an agreement since the Obama/Gore era without any true scientific check ups?? Aren’t we all in science supposed to prove issues beyond doubt with re-search, double check, corroborations? What do we need to do? How can we force a congressional revision of the so called climate change with real scientists, avoiding the fiasco of soup of laws like what they did during impeachments, that left the laws of USA without columns of common agreements that make the institution solid as when they call it political science in academics? We scientists don’t argue in studies about fundamentals that we all agree on; nowadays congressional hearings are turned into a cheap discussion of trivialities and even personal insults. How can we ask for an honest revision in a country that no longer agrees on fundaments like what constitutes a presidential crime?! Is this going to be dragged over the ages as an issue truly solved in orthodox science as a false positive, and yet defended by idiots with big bullhorns?? OMG 😱 Make us like the wheel, as the stubble before the wind!
Psalm 83:13.
That’s just crazy. Maybe we need a national dashboard for tracking mental illness in the White House..
Well.
The solution is well known.
Air conditioning, and cheap energy.
Since UHI, which is clearly human caused, is such a major factor in places like Phoenix, investigations into the possibility of ameliorating the problem or of reducing the causes, are not without some merit. Air conditioning and cheap energy will help many (I could not afford it at half the current cost) but that is a sort-of solution that significantly contributes to the basic problem.
With air-conditioners, the average air energy (inside and outside), stays the same.
The more/bigger AC units, the lower the inside temperature, or larger the inside volume, you can keep cooler…
… but the more energy is added to the outside air.
Running an air conditioner uses considerable energy. That energy end up as heat, adding to, is part of creating the UHI.
The effects of this hysteria upon generating severe mental-illness are already very well apparent. So the actions to be taken to address this severe extreme heat crisis will require everyone to turn off their air conditioning and to quit driving. Also, stop eating any food that requires transportation or refrigeration.
Judging by how well this maladministration tracked CoViD-1984 “cases”, adverse-reactions, death with/by Covid conflation, batches, and pretty much every metric in health-care, its a foregone certainty that this EMS Heat Tracker will provide only political results.
I remember the all-hands-on-deck approach by every participating health institution to track “cases”, beds, etc. on a weekly basis took months to implement, the data received was garbage and institutions only participated because threats, intimidation and bribes.
There was no science behind it. In the case of a heat-stroke death, they may not even catch that correctly since the cause of death might actually be heart attack or stroke – it just happen to occur on a regionally “hot” day.
it’s all just so unbelievablely lame.
build more power plants.
give everyone an air conditioner.
problem freakin’ solved!
These hot summer events in the USA should not be linked to climate. Climate deals with global events more than local.
Here is the UAH temperature picture for the air over Australia for the past decade.
A simple, single climate cause would hardly allow an increase over America and a decrease over Australia at the same time.
Geoff S
Trend over that period for USA48 is very small.
Government & bureaucracy to the rescue…. again.
It’s certainly another aspect we should explore. I’m sure that if the central planners build enough bureaucracies around the world, we will get the weather juuuuuust right.
Since when does heat kill more people than cold? Since Biden.
From the old style sensible and constructive:
“In its existence, FEMA has only received three requests for extreme heat declarations (two in 1980 and one in 1995), and all were denied because “they did not demonstrate that state and local capacity had been exceeded,” an agency spokesperson said.
“The most effective way to save lives from extreme heat incidents will be through an increased focus on preparedness and resilience,” the spokesperson told NBC News. “Key actions include improved messaging and public education, modifying structures and landscapes to reduce urban heat impacts, and addressing economic issues or other community challenges that result in lack of access to air conditioning.”
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To the new style plain stupid, lacking in knowledge and intelligence: …
“Some cities have appointed chief heat officers to help manage the blistering temperatures. White House officials said the president fully supports such moves, encouraging states to do everything they can on their own.”
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No wonder western civilisation seems to be becoming increasingly mentally unstable by the day.
It’s COVID-19 style narcissism all over again.
Countering this propaganda nonsense is simple: Create a corresponding deaths/illness from excessive cold temperatures list. And put the weekly/monthly/yearly tracker numbers of both, side by side.
Then make videos mocking and ridiculing any and all “presenters” or commentators or so called journalists who promote the heat causing death and illness narrative with the facts about 10-50x more cold illness and death than from heat.
Ridicule, satire and humiliation is the way to get the imbeciles who peddle this nonsense as “news” to stop or rethink their positions.
Blatant lies, such as the image of firefighters in their bunker gear totally spent and sweaty. Bunker gear will cause you to become totally spent and sweaty in the dead of winter too when fighting fires. (bunker or turnout gear are fireproof, thickly insulated coats and pants that will allow you to withstand the radiant heat of being up close and personal to 2,000 deg F fire. Not only will you sweat but you also have to pull hoses that can weigh 50 lbs per foot and exert 250 lbs of back force from the spray out the nozzles, or simply carry rolls of dry hose which are not lightweight either up 10 flights of stairs, etc)
https://www.edarley.com/turnout-gear/bunker-coats-pants/
There are NO out of shape firefighters, it is very hard, grueling work and the protective gear will completely exhaust you after a short time, even in a -20 F blizzard – so the photo is extremely misleading to the average person.
Agreed! I noticed that also.
We served on a Rescue Squad that had as a responsibility providing “rehabilitation” at fire scenes. The Fire Chief monitored how long every firefighter was directly involved and called them out immediately when their allowed time expired.
Even in the dead of winter (South Carolina) we had to help them shed their gear and we then continuously monitored their vital signs (and provided water) as they rested. They had to pass OUR medical OK before releasing them back to the Chief for reassignment.
Should be a sure bet: within 3 years, we will be treated to another hockey stick graph that needs bebunked , due to the dishonest splicing of “heat induced illness” onto the previous heat related deaths vs. cold related deaths graphs.
Story tip: Great response to this BS.
“Global Boiling”: An Assault On Reason and Science (msn.com)
Nobody is talking about the obvious solution. Live underground. We can build giant mining and excavating machines that can do the job in a snap.
If you look at the NOAA statewide average temperature site no state has set a record temperature in the past year. The highest state temperatures were back in 2012
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/climate-at-a-glance/statewide/time-series/33/tavg/12/7/1895-2023?base_prd=true&begbaseyear=1901&endbaseyear=2000
Cue up the Maui death toll in 5… 4… 3… 2… 1…