Deadly Disasters: Heatwaves
Deadly Disasters – Blizzards: https://youtu.be/Hc21s_bWlaE
Temperatures in places like Saudi Arabia routinely exceed 40 degrees Celsius with very little effect on the population. However, when the same extreme heat struck the people of Russia in 2010, it killed an estimated 56,000 people.
When Europe experienced similar temperatures during the summer of 2003, it killed an estimated 70,000.
Using extraordinary footage and fascinating insights from experts like Friederike Otto, Director of the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University, we’ll examine two of the most blistering heatwaves in recent history, discovering why this extreme weather event is one of Mother Nature’s most unrelenting killers.
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Do you sometimes ask yourself the question: what’s worse: the extreme heat of the extreme cold? Obviously neither is preferable but honestly, after spending some time in the cold this past week, I’d prefer the heat. Both are challenging. Any thoughts on the comments. In the meantime, enjoy Deadly Disasters: Heatwaves
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if i woke up from a coma and somebody told me it was 40 Celsius outside id prob put on a hoodie lol
Fact: More people die in COLD WEATHER EVERY YEAR THAN HOT.
Contrary to the NOAA, the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics Compressed Mortality Database, which is based on actual death certificates, indicates that roughly twice as many people die of cold in a given year than of heat.
What month has the most deaths?
January
Longstanding research and trends have pinpointed January as the deadliest month of any year.
Is it harder to survive in the heat or cold?
Both heat and cold can kill. But cold is far more deadly. For every death linked to heat, nine are tied to cold.
In the U.S., death rates in winter months have typically been 8% to 12% higher than in non-winter months. While this can be attributed to the effects of cold it's also in part a function of the prevalence of more respiratory illnesses, such as influenza, in winter.
all energy-producing machinery must be fabricated from materials extracted from the earth. No energy system, in short, is actually “renewable,” since all machines require the continual mining and processing of millions of tons of primary materials and the disposal of hardware that inevitably wears out. Compared with hydrocarbons, green machines entail, on average, a 10-fold increase in the quantities of materials extracted and processed to produce the same amount of energy. For a snapshot of what all this points to regarding the total materials footprint of the green energy path, consider the supply chain for an electric car battery. A single battery providing a useful driving range weighs about 1,000 pounds. Providing the refined minerals needed to fabricate a single EV battery requires the mining, moving, and processing of more than 500,000 pounds of materials somewhere on the planet . That’s 20 times more than the 25,000 pounds of petroleum that an internal combustion engine uses over the life of a car. Among the material realities of green energy:
Building wind turbines and solar panels to generate electricity, as well as batteries to fuel electric vehicles, requires, on average, more than 10 times the quantity of materials, compared with building machines using hydrocarbons to deliver the same amount of energy to society.
A single electric car contains more cobalt than 1,000 smartphone batteries; the blades on a single wind turbine have more plastic than 5 million smartphones; and a solar array that can power one data center uses more glass than 50 million phones.
Replacing hydrocarbons with green machines under current plans—never mind aspirations for far greater expansion—will vastly increase the mining of various critical minerals around the world. For example, a single electric car battery weighing 1,000 pounds requires extracting and processing some 500,000 pounds of materials. Averaged over a battery’s life, each mile of driving an electric car “consumes” five pounds of earth. Using an internal combustion engine consumes about 0.2 pounds of liquids per mile.
Oil, natural gas, and coal are needed to produce the concrete, steel, plastics, and purified minerals used to build green machines. The energy equivalent of 100 barrels of oil is used in the processes to fabricate a single battery that can store the equivalent of one barrel of oil.
By 2050, with current plans, the quantity of worn-out solar panels—much of it nonrecyclable—will constitute double the tonnage of all today’s global plastic waste, along with over 3 million tons per year of unrecyclable plastics from worn-out wind turbine blades. By 2030, more than 10 million tons per year of batteries will become garbage.
The extraction process of lithium is very resource demanding and specifically uses a lot of water in the extraction process. It is estimated that 500,000 gallons of water is used to mine one metric ton of lithium. With the world's leading country in production of lithium being Chile, the lithium mines are in rural areas with an extremely diverse ecosystem.
In Chile’s Salar de Atacama, one of the driest places on earth, about 65% of the water is used to mine lithium; leaving many of the local farmers and members of the community to find water elsewhere. Along with physical implications on the environment, working conditions can violate the standards of sustainable development goals.
Additionally, it is common for locals to be in conflict with the surrounding lithium mines. There have been many accounts of dead animals and ruined farms in the surrounding areas of many of these mines. In Tagong, a small town in Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture China, there are records of dead fish and large animals floating down some of the rivers near the Tibetan mines.
After further investigation, researchers found that this may have been caused by leakage of evaporation pools that sit for months and sometimes even years. Lithium-ion batteries contain metals such as cobalt, nickel, and manganese, which are toxic and can contaminate water supplies and ecosystems if they leach out of landfills. Additionally, fires in landfills or battery-recycling facilities have been attributed to inappropriate disposal of lithium-ion batteries. As a result, some jurisdictions require lithium-ion batteries to be recycled. In spite of the environmental cost of improper disposal of lithium-ion batteries, the rate of recycling is still relatively low, as recycling processes remain costly and immature. More than 400 million batteries are used throughout the country, with only 5% being recycled, resulting in 8000 tonnes ending up in landfill.
Creating the lithium-ion battery pack is also more environmentally harmful than the manufacturing process for an average petrol-powered car.
how is 50 tons of ore for one battery that has a 7 year shelf life, that needs fossil fuels plus rare metals to be built, charged and maintained better for the environment?
God works in mysterious ways
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look up ionospheric heaters, thats a real tool and not some sort of conspiracy
This climate change nonsense has gone way too far. We are still coming out of the ice age .. this is natural
And yet more people die from the cold , staggering
…Disco Inferno…
Still never understood why people like summer. They must like being sweaty and sticky going outside. Winter is superior because if your too cold put more clothes on. summer your f'ed
The Holy Bible mentions the looming danger of GLOBAL WARMING–> JEREMIAH 4:10-12 "A SCORCHING WIND ARISES FROM THW ANCIENT DESERT HEIGHTS"? Also ZEPHANIAH 3:8 "The whole world will be CONSUMED BY THE FIRE OF MY JREALOUS ANGER"?