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Call For Max Working Temperature Cap After EU Heatwave Deaths

Trade unions called Monday for the European Commission to impose maximum temperature limits for outdoor workers, after three people died while on shift in Madrid during last week's withering heatwave.



While a handful of member states have legislation limiting working hours in excessive heat, the thresholds vary and many nations have no nationwide heat limits.

According to research by the polling agency Eurofound, 23 percent of all workers across the EU were being exposed to high temperatures a quarter of the time. That figure rises to 36 percent in agriculture and industry and to 38 percent for construction workers.

Previous research has linked high temperatures to a number of chronic conditions and an elevated risk of workplace injury.

https://www.barrons.com/news/call-for-max-working-temperature-cap-after-eu-heatwave-deaths-01658700307


Al Gore warns severe weather will 'get a lot worse' without climate action

Former Vice President Al Gore said Sunday that now is the time to act on climate change as the U.S. experiences record heat and wildfires rage across Europe.

"They're saying that if we don't stop using our atmosphere as an open sewer, and if we don't stop these heat trapping emissions, things are gonna get a lot worse," Gore told ABC "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl. "More people will be killed and the survival of our civilization is at stake."



Gore said global warming pollution is trapping the heat equivalent of 600,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs.

"That's why the heat records are being broken all the time now," he said. "That's why the storms are stronger, why the ice is melting and the sea levels rising and why the droughts and fires are hitting us so hard and so many other consequences."

https://abcnews.go.com/US/al-gore-warns-severe-weather-lot-worse-climate/story?id=87298602


‘They just can’t get cool enough’: Farmer losing livestock to extreme heat and drought

BIXBY, Okla. (KOKI) – Extreme heat continues to bake parts of the country.

In Oklahoma, one farmer said heat and drought are killing his livestock. He’s afraid it will only get worse as the heat wave continues.

Even the animals are frustrated at Bill Cook’s Bixby farm as they grasp onto the dwindling water across his property.

“Typically the water levels up to here, it’s about, it’s about maybe 35, 40 inches lower than what it typically is,” Cook said.

https://www.kold.com/2022/07/24/they-just-cant-get-cool-enough-farmer-losing-livestock-extreme-heat-drought/


Kenya: Mbeere residents face starvation due to biting drought, MP says

At least 200,000 residents in Mbeere constituency, Embu County, are facing starvation due to a biting drought, the area MP says.

All crops including maize, a staple for most of them, dried up before maturing following a prolonged dry spell, leaving residents without food.

The most affected areas are Kiambeere, Makima, Mwea and Mavuria villages, where residents are struggling to survive.

"In the last season, the rains failed and all the crops were wiped out by the scorching sun. This season, the situation is the same and something urgent should be done to save the lives of my people," said Mr King'ang'i.

https://nation.africa/kenya/counties/embu/mbeere-residents-face-starvation-due-to-biting-drought-mp-says-3887546


Greenland hit with 'unusually extensive' melting of ice sheet, boosting sea levels, scientists say

Scientists have warned about the fate of Greenland's ice sheet and say what happened between July 15 and 17 is the latest massive melting event contributing to an increase in the global sea level.

The amount of water from the melt – about 6 billion tons a day, or 18 billion tons over the weekend – is enough to "cover West Virginia in a foot of water – 4 inches per day, roughly," Ted Scambos, a senior research scientist at the University of Colorado's Earth Science and Observation Center and National Snow and Ice Data Center, told USA TODAY.

Much of the melting came from northern Greenland because warm air drifted over from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Scambos said.

There is also a high-pressure dome over Greenland. Together, they created an "unusually extensive melt event," he said.

https://news.yahoo.com/greenland-hit-unusually-extensive-melting-110053363.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr


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