Week of sweltering US heat – is this the new normal in a warming world? | Climate crisis

The Climate Related Disaster List in the United States was long last week, with large areas of America sweating under a brutal heat wave.
There was a “collective event” of secondary schools in New Jersey, where the K-POP party was cut in Washington. Young street verafts had to be saved in New Hampshire, while the airport runway and measuits were in the southern Dakota and Nebraska.
Amtrak Luckless passengers were suspended in a train without air conditioning in the Baltimore tunnel, while some subway services were suspended in New York. The Trump administration has announced the state of emergency in the southeastern United States, and in Georgia, the Population Commissioner advised to ensure that their animals enjoy water and shade.
“Remember to take care of our friends too,” said Tyler Harper.
These incidents – and many others – were the result of the highest temperatures throughout the Northern United States in the United States at this early date in some cases since the late nineteenth century.
Nearly 130 million people were under severe heat warnings or heat consulting on Thursday, according to Noaa’s Weather prediction centerWith 282 sites destroying daily heat records this week, with 121 other sites equal to previous highlands, Noaa data Show.
Daily heat records were set in at least 50 cities in the eastern United States on Tuesday, according to L. National weather serviceWith New York City registered the most hot since 2012, according to Noa.
Climate scientists blame the fast Arctic to warm the heat dome – as a result of which they say are the result of “stuck” weather patterns that come from a trendy polar plane, which can cause not only heat waves but also heavy rains and floods.
A New studyPublished in the Scientific Processals Journal of the National Academy of Sciences, said that the stopping atmosphere patterns have multiplied three times over the past 70 years.
The authors of the study claim that although climate models predict that these patterns will occur frequently with climate change, their study is the first to prove that it is already happening – and it is likely to condense with the planet’s continued heating.
Climate Central Climate transformation index It is estimated that the high temperatures during the past few days have been at least five times more likely due to the change of climate caused by man. The central climate scientist Zakari Labb Politico told the early wave “a blatant reminder that climate change makes these dangerous and oppressive thermal waves more likely, affecting millions of people.”
“One of the easiest ways to see the effect of climate change is how to increase the chance of these types of heat waves,” Lab Bloomberg said. “By the middle of this century, these types of heat waves will be normal. The opposite will be higher.”
According to the American Medical Association, almost temperatures 22,000 people He died of heat in 14 years between 1999 and 2023. National Weather Service Statistics Display Het to demand more lives than any other weather.
But the heat events are only fatal at the extreme. The broader general feeling and goods of persecution and discomfort was clear in New York last week, when the Extreme Hear arrived after a cold spring and gave a little time to adapt.
“We all know that exposure to a long period of heat can have serious effects on your general health, including mental health, but it can negatively affect your skin,” said Kim Laudati, CEO of smart treatment, a New York skin regeneration company.
Lodite said that exposure for a long period of heat due to the joining of the function of protecting the skin, which leads to the loss of water in a deeper layers and surface of the skin, which leads to a state of dryness.
Chronic heat can expand vessels and continuous redness. The inflammation, which can enhance the erythema caused by heat, or redness, results in the degree of creating cell expansion. Known as the “spider veins” and millma, skin coloring.
There is also a low concentration, irritation, mood swings because the body converts resources to regulate the body temperature; Weak melatonin production, which leads to poor sleep. The damage associated with heat can cause a blood barrier in the brain lack of concentration, confusion, fainting and the failure of the organs.
“With the change of climate that is reshaping how we already live, it is more important than ever to teach ourselves.”
Climate change was in the minds of voters last week in the preliminary elections of the mayor in New York, which reached its climax on the most important day of heat in the dome, when he scored a heat scale in the Balfider Castle in Central Park 99 degrees for the first time since July 18, 2012.
Democratic mayor Zahran Mamdani said that the climate crisis is the central issue in a timely manner and that it is not separate from the capitalism crisis, which makes it a participating path with his resonant message about the ability to bear the costs of life, or lack it, in the city.
Dina Avila Dixon said with the “Climate platform in Zahran” to make the lives of workers better through climate work, ” Sunrise movementThe climate group that supported Mamdani. “He has an important commitment to converting New York City into a national climate leader.”
“It is clear to us that the climate crisis has been politicized, but it is not a political issue,” added Avila Dixon. “It affects people in every city, and in every state, and often we draw that it affects people in the countryside, especially because they do not have the same types of resources.”
In a typical year between 1979 and 2000, the average temperature in the northern hemisphere will break the 21c (69.8f) barrier in July and lasts for five weeks, according to the Institute of Climate Change at Min University.
But last year, the average temperature of half the temperature in the northern hemisphere was above 21 ° C from June 13 to September 5, and data From the Environmental Protection Agency He explains that the heat waves have grown longer, more frequent and more intense over the past seven decades.
“If you want to compare this to what happened in the twentieth century, it will be very unusual,” Sonia Senfratin, Swiss climate scientist at the Institute of Air Cover and Climate in Eth Zurich. Washington Post said.