Recent Posts in heat-related deaths Category
Posted on Sep 27, 2019 By David Thomas
“YOU ARE FAILING US” Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old climate activist from Sweden, angrily spoke these words in her address on Monday to the United Nations General Assembly’s Climate ...
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Posted on Jul 5, 2018 By David Thomas
HOT SUMMERS MEAN EXTRA HOT CARS As of July 3, 2018, 80 million people in the United States were under heat advisories. Temperatures across much of the East Coast have been and are expected to continue ...
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Posted on Sep 18, 2017 By David Thomas
POWER FAILURE OR HUMAN FAILURE? On Tuesday, September 12, 2017, a resident at the Rehabilitative Center at Hollywood Hills in Broward County, Florida, was found dead. In the early morning hours of ...
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Posted on Aug 8, 2017 By David Thomas
A DEADLY MONTH We hear almost daily about the record-breaking heat of this summer, and the droughts, wild fires, and health consequences of temperatures regularly reaching into the triple digits. ...
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Posted on Jul 17, 2017 By David Thomas
THE BIG HEAT This week marks Atlanta’s peak heat period, when it typically experiences its hottest temperatures of the year according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...
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