The Climate Change Thread

[live627]

I'm confident that they will figure this out; airplanes technology will adapt. Example: fighter jets. Since those always go above mach 1 speeds and create a sonic boom, they probably encounter constant turbulence.

 

[Retro]

This was inevitably going to happen as our planet continues to warm. Incredibly, other than mentioning the percentage of UK homes with aircon, this study doesn't actually mention it anywhere else, other than a footnote. Incredible, as aircon is central to keeping a home cool, especially one not designed with heatwaves in mind, which is most of them since the UK was a colder country before, so keeping warm was the problem.

Lower-income householders, minority ethnic people and those with young children are more likely to live in homes at risk from dangerous overheating, research has found.

The UK has baked in multiple heatwaves this summer, with many people sweltering in dangerously hot homes that were not designed to withstand extreme temperatures. June was the hottest on record and in general this summer England was an average of 1.58C above average temperatures.

Hot homes are dangerous for health; cardiovascular and respiratory issues, sleep disturbance, mental health problems and heat exhaustion all correlate with high temperatures in the home. Health risks spike when temperatures inside are above 25C, and there is a link between overheating homes and the risk of death, particularly for elderly people.

An analysis of housing stock by the Resolution Foundation has found nearly half (48%) of the poorest fifth of English households have homes liable to get too hot – three times as many as among the richest fifth (17%).

Low-income and minority ethnic people in England most at risk from dangerously hot homes

Exclusive: Homes are heating up as summers get hotter but least well-off are shouldering greatest risk, study finds

www.theguardian.com