Scientists outline health limits of heat stress with climate change










The research paper says "The simplest prediction of global warming’s effect on TwMax is to assume a uniform upward shift of the Tw distribution. A 4 °C increase in T(wet) would then subject over half the world’s population
annually to unprecedented values and cut the “safety buffer” that now exists between the highest maximum T(wet) and 35 °C to roughly a quarter. A shift of 5 °C would allow maximum T(wet) to exceed 35 °C in










It is not our governments who need to be informed, rather it is the people of suburban Australia and Red America, who are the worst emitters but also probably the least aware of their impacts owing to their comfortable, bargain-bin-price lifestyles.

I have very little doubt that most people in suburban Australia care insufficiently about what is likely to happen under the - given the development of underground coal gasification in Australia - most likely scenarios. They either prefer the very low quality of life at a very low (vis-à-vis the cooler climates of Europe, Canada and New Zealand) price, or fear the consequences from necessary mitigations steps. The most vital is a rigid plan to constitutionally outlaw all road building and develop a first-rate mass transit system with service frequencies 24 hours a day of five minutes or less and extending beyond the metropolitan area to at least Ballarat, Geelong and Kyneton.

Publicisation of these alarming records must be concentrated in growing, apolitical suburbs, no matter how unpleasant the news will be to the families who live in them. If it is likely that most of Australia will have temperatures beyond what can be tolerated in a century and people in these areas do not know or understand what can be done to avert it, we will see a tragedy.