Scorching heat is driving down economic productivity around the world

[Valin]

Washington Post:

Brady Dennis

July 19 2016

 

From construction workers in Dubai to farmers in India, workers around the world are suffering from excessive heat fueled by climate change. This heat is leading to huge productivity losses and mounting economic strain for dozens of countries, according to research published Monday ahead of a U.N. forum.

 

The study builds on research detailing how extreme heat in some places prevents employees from working during the hottest hours of the day. People simply tire faster and accomplish less the hotter it gets. That lost work time translates into significant hits on the gross domestic product in nations across the globe, and it is a problem that could deepen as the Earth continues to warm.

 

“For certain tropical countries that are not so well-economically developed, they might lose up to 10 percent of working hours during daylight,” said Tord Kjellstrom, one of the co-authors of the research and a visiting professor at Australian National University. “It’s a whole working month that would be lost because it’s so hot you can’t work.”

 

[Sweeping study claims that rising temperatures will sharply cut economic productivity]

 

Kjellstrom and fellow researchers found that in dozens of countries, daylight work hours lost to excessive heat have increased since the 1990s. They also estimate that at the current rate of global warming, that trend will continue. For instance, countries such as India, Vietnam and Indonesia could see the number of lost work hours more than double by 2055 and more than triple by 2085.

 

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It's Hot In The Summer! Who Knew?

 

NASA Climate Change

 

Your Tax Money At Work!

 

 

 

 

[nickydog]

I seem to remember this happening in July when I was a little girl. And that was a long time ago.

[NCTexan]

I remember growing up in Dallas that it was hot one summer. Can't put an exact year on it though.

 

But I think everyone around the world should take a hint from Tulip and her whippet friends...

 

[Valin]

I seem to remember this happening in July when I was a little girl. And that was a long time ago.

 

 

[Geee]

Former NASA Scientist Dispels Notion Global Warming Is ‘Settled’ Science

 

A former NASA climate scientist has put out a new report criticizing the argument that global warming is settled science.

 

“It should be clear that the science of global warming is far from settled,” said Dr. Roy Spencer, a former NASA scientist who now co-runs a major satellite temperature dataset at the University of Alabama-Huntsville.

 

“Uncertainties in the adjustments to our global temperature datasets, the small amount of warming those datasets have measured compared to what climate models expect, and uncertainties over the possible role of Mother Nature in recent warming, all combine to make climate change beliefs as much faith-based as science-based,” Spencer wrote in a report published by the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation.

 

“Until climate science is funded independent of desired energy policy outcomes, we can continue to expect climate research results to be heavily biased in the direction of catastrophic outcomes,” Spencer wrote.

 

http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/20/former-nasa-scientist-dispels-notion-global-warming-is-settled-science/

[nickydog]

 

I seem to remember this happening in July when I was a little girl. And that was a long time ago.

 

 

 

 

...or as we like to call it -- weather.