London Climate Action Week Canceled by Extreme Heat

London Climate Action The week must be connected to know how to reduce the gas. Rather, it is a textbook example of how the world is being forced to adapt more and more very hot.

“London is not just inviting – it is cooking,” said United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday, as he delivered a keynote speech at the event.

The UK Met Office expects temperatures to reach 39 degrees Celsius (102 degrees Fahrenheit) on Wednesday, a mark that will break the June record and tie for the country’s hottest ever. The UK is not alone: ​​Extreme heat is spreading across Europe, with countries shutting down schools and nuclear power plants and railway operators cutting back on services to avoid extreme temperatures.

“Our infrastructure is not built for this heat,” said Katie Glaze, Brookbanks’ hospital sustainability manager. They released a nine-part series on how to weatherize a home due to transportation issues. “The strange thing is that most of the meetings I go to, the topic of discussion is what is happening now,” he adds. “It’s all forward thinking, but we have it right now because we’re not dealing with it quickly.”

Europe is now surrounded by a region of high velocity air. This traps warm air as a “The lid on the pot.”“The air becomes hotter and hotter as the land heats up, loses moisture, and becomes more prone to overheating.”

In London, organizers on Tuesday canceled event in extreme heat because the library it is housed in does not have air conditioning. In the “uncomfortable” buildings and hot trips to the west would endanger the lives of speakers and visitors, stay with the Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance. he says.

Meanwhile Earthwatch Europe has suspended it events for families to search for wildlife in Hammersmith Park “is misleading no one intended, but everyone will appreciate the shame,” the charity wrote on Facebook.

The festival is expected to attract 75,000 people to more than 1,000 events over nine days. But some attendees have opted not to attend due to health concerns. London, like many cities, experiences more heat than rural areas due to the abundance of heat-absorbing materials such as concrete and asphalt and the lack of cooling plants.

Codirector of the Climate Majority Project Rupert Read decided not to go to London for the event because he has heart problems, which can be aggravated by the heat. His organization moved events online.

He said: “It is doubtful that this has actually happened, adding that London Climate Action Week will continue “with the mindset of the real problem that exists because it is the way things are now.

The UK government has said he warned heat disrupts human health systems and increases the risk of illness or death. Last year, the government to calculate With more than 1,500 heat-related deaths nationwide, the elderly are most at risk.

Charlotte Baker, who runs her own environmental and health consultancy and lives outside of London, also canceled plans to attend a conference on improving cities this week because she has severe asthma caused by pollen and air pollution. He was hospitalized with asthma three years ago in the heat and doesn’t want to risk a repeat because of the forecast of hot air that could damage the air.