«You'll be very fatigued and sweating a lot and thirsty — so those natural
defenses against heat and dehydration are still working,» says Peter Shearer, MD, associate director of the Mount Sinai Hospital emergency department in New York City.
PULLMAN, Wash. — Crop scientists at Washington State University have explained how genes in the barley plant turn on
defenses against aging and stressors like drought,
heat and disease.
Some things we might do if we got desperate enough: scrub greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere technologically, geo - engineering to create cooling effects to offset greenhouse
heating, [SLIDE 42] lots of adaptation policies, cropping patterns,
heat drought and salt - resistant crops, strengthen public health and environmental engineering
defenses against tropical disease, new water projects for flood control and drought management, dyke storm surge barriers, avoiding further development on flood plains in near sea level.