Forgive me, but these temps dont seem to be all that high, high for Canada, but not high high We had a 47C day in Sydney, think it was last summer, it was toasty, but I dont remember anyone dying
Some were men in their mid 50's and most of them had health issues, already. If you have health issues already, why would you be out in the heat? I don't know if central air is common in Canada, it is in the south US.
I see, that makes sense. In GA, FL, NC, SC - most of these areas all have central air, no matter the housing. That's pretty much how all the houses, apartments, office buildings and schools are down here.
In the article, it states that over 100 people have died in Montreal from the heat wave. I can't find that article though, through the link.
You cant fill up your bathtub with water and sit in it all day in public housing, or go to the local mall, swimming pool? If they are 80 yr olds, yeah sure. But 50 somethings? I'm a bit sceptical as to how a 50 something cant avoid a heat death
Seems strange to me as well. I was in Ontario, Canada yesterday--and sure, it was hot and there was a heat advisory, but nothing that staying hydrated or venturing into an air conditioned shopping mall couldn't fix.
Something like this happened in 1911. Thousands of people died, so did including a LOT of livestock. I personally think that most of humanity is not concerned with such grand and yet alarmingly out of touch campaigns are initiated in the name of what I used to know as Ecology. I'm from Northern California, San Rafael (Go Bulldogs). I've been eating Granola since we just called it cereal (in the 60s). I cleaned a lot of creeks and forests when I was in the FFA, I collected dead bugs for the Wilderness Society and I have always been interested in ways to keep water clean, naturally (or otherwise). I think more people were involved back then because the issues were each treated uniquely. Now they have been captured under a single (or so) title of "Global Cooling, Global Warming and Anthropomorphic Climate Change", each a massive, nebulous concept. How do you bridge such a giant gap; The tossed cigarette butt=Some asshole's contribution to making earth like Venus (is Earth supposed to be capitalized?). The emphasis will sell better at the street level if we focus again on the local and regional aspects of pollution. This does not mean I want to walk away from the amazing progress that has been made with fossil fueled power plants (NOx reduction by over 93%, CO2 Sequestration and zero discharge facilities). No. Huge energy corporations must remain under the microscope for eternity (I see a time when combustion falls to less than 25% of global power). Another thing I have noticed is the sheer size that all of the disassociated movements that just died off. Not that their causes were ignored, but maybe capitalized into the "Environmental" movement, a Borg-like entity that spawned the EPA. Not that I disagree with the charter of the EPA, but I think governmental apathy sunk in there years ago. What if we took a step back from the macro-problem and concentrate again on the micro-problems, globally? We can send more assholes to protest a finite-sized entity. Massive corporations have too many layers of protection. But local yokels (I hope that's not racist) cave much quicker and either come off with "contingent" cash to buy time, or they settle, for pennies. (and yes, I do have the Mother Earth News back-order collection on CD, a virus-free, never been connected Window's 7 Toshiba laptop, CGH-7 FM transmitter, The Erotic Adventures of Candy on DVD, a stealth rain barrel water treatment system and a hardwood-burning barbecue pit with heat pipe collection) {good stuff mannnnnnnnnn]
local mall or swimming pool in montreal?... with all the new haitian immigrants and other goofs coming in from the states ?,,are you crazy? most of us wont even visit the bigger cities anymore for fear of being ran down by immigrants in rental trucks
Part of it is what people are used to and prepared for. Weather this hot is so rare in Canada that a lot of people don't have ac's. It's the same when the states you mentioned get snow. No one would bat an eye up north, but there's usually lots of car accidents there.
Reminds me of the deadly Midwest Heatwave of 1995 in which 739 people alone died in Chicago over a period of a week
Yep, grand solar minimum of the Dalton class. The last time the sun was this inactive was the 1880's. We'll see if the sun or CO2 is a stronger variable.
Well, Hotwater up there said Chicago had a heatwave in 1995 killing 739 people. That happened in a period of low solar irradiance. The range in fluctuation looks quite insignificant, less than 0.15% between solar max and minimum. The minimum around 2008 looks about 0.05% lower than average. The 11 year solar cycles seem to have very little effect on earth's temperatures. The impact of carbon is very significant, as shown in the first animated picture that I posted.