Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning

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• Europeans don’t get scolded enough for their resistance to air conditioning. In terms of accounting for preventable deaths, Greece has 2x more heat-related deaths per capita annually than Mississippi has gun deaths.

  By comparison, the worst US state for heat related deaths, Nevada - a literal desert - has >10x fewer deaths per capita than Greece.

  lwansbrough 2h ago

• "Extreme Heat" seems to be 37-40 degrees Celsius which is bafflingly mundane to me as an Australian who grew up in rural New South Wales. We'd pack 30 kids and a teacher into an un-airconditioned classroom with just a ceiling fan and the windows open in that temperature.

  I imagine the buildings there just aren't built to support that heat plus the body height of hundreds or thousands of attendees?

  shitloadofbooks 2h ago

• > Hosted in collaboration with the Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance.

  Their climate resilience seems low.

  > The event will finish with a fire side chat

  Is this a prank?

  delichon 2h ago

• So calling for the conference and cancelling it raises awareness of extreme heat? Well played

  kiriberty 2h ago

• Reminds me of "dermatology convention in Hawaii": https://youtube.com/shorts/1uRxIe1dXGU

  zaik 2h ago

• Apparently, NOT a theonion article

  indigodaddy 53m ago

• I love a good self reference

  mikelitoris 1h ago

• It's either terrible planning or the most persuasive presentation they’ve ever given.

  regnull 34m ago

• Recently - from YT recommended - I learned about Glauber's salt (sodium sulfate).

  Glauber's salt is a PCM phase-change material that melts at 90F / 32.4C and starts absorbing thermal energy.

  westurner 53m ago