Sentences with phrase «rate from extreme heat»

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It's worth considering the lessons of Chicago in the context of the devastating loss of close to 15,000 people in France during Europe's devastating 2003 heat wave, with the death rate, not to mention the chaotic aftermath, a function of a host of factors ranging from global warming shifting the odds of extreme heat to social norms leaving old people in harm's way.

and all working together to form a crude electric motor that deflects charged particles from the sun, which also deflect charged particles from space — while also pulling on the molten core to divert its heat to different parts of the Earth's surface at different rates... while other rocks orbiting the sun, also affect the Earth's axial tilt, particularly Jupiter, thereby changing temperature - extremes.

[Response: Your argument misses the point in three different and important ways, not even considering whether or not the Black Hills data have any general applicability elsewhere, which they may or may not: (1) It ignores the point made in the post about the potential effect of previous, seasonal warming on the magnitude of an extreme event in mid summer to early fall, due to things like (especially) a depletion in soil moisture and consequent accumulation of degree days, (2) it ignores that biological sensitivity is far FAR greater during the warm season than the cold season for a whole number of crucial variables ranging from respiration and photosynthesis to transpiration rates, and (3) it ignores the potential for derivative effects, particularly fire and smoke, in radically increasing the local temperature effects of the heat wave.

Periods of extreme heat are directly related to higher rates of death from cardiovascular disease and heat stroke, particularly among the elderly and low - income communities who tend to be disproportionately affected by the impacts of all types of extreme weather.