Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Climate change will make dangerous outdoor activities

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If temperatures increase sharply by the end of the century, as is anticipated, open-air activities can be dangerous. According to a study led by climatologist Robert Kopp, of Rutgers University, in the United States, one hour of outdoor activity, even in the shade, you can take a moderately healthy person having a stroke.

According to Kopp, a blend of heat and humidity could be responsible for this situation. The ability of the body to cool down depends on the evaporation of sweat, but if the humidity is high, sweat cannot evaporate and people can die as a result.

Until recently, it was believed that climate change would remove people from their homes or cities, especially in developed countries, due to floods, floods or other storms and extreme phenomena that make life impossible. However, in recent years, there is growing evidence that the increase in temperature is the main environmental force that will remove people from their homes and countries of origin.

The study, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, accompanies more than 7,000 homes in Indonesia, over a period of 15 years, and concluded that the extreme disasters have a much smaller impact on migration than the stress caused by the heat.

Thus, people who live in these homes react especially at high temperatures. On the other hand, advances the Scientific American, the breakdown of agricultural productivity as a result of heat is probably the greater cause of migrations that existed in these 15 years.

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