WhoWhatWhy - The heat exposure of older people will at least double in all continents by 2050, according to a study that highlights the combined risk posed by a heating world and an aging population. Compared with today, there will be up to an extra 250 million people aged 69 or above who are exposed to dangerous levels of heat, defined as 37.5C. The paper warned this is likely to create biological and social vulnerability hotspots with increasing concentrations of older adults and high temperature extremes. The impact on health systems and global inequality will be huge, the paper published in Nature Communications warned, because older people are more vulnerable to high temperatures
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Please don't use heat when "you" meant temperature. Heat is thermal energy. There are some physics teachers that do not use heat as a noun, only as a verb. Temperature is a measure of the thermal internal energy. This is what is sensed, not heat. The units used: System International, (SI) Kelvin (K) Kelvin degrees are the same as Celsius (C), but with a different zero. Fahrenheit is only used in the US.
Temperature is only one of the factors in morbidity and lethality. Humidity is the other, as explained here:
https://climatecheck.com/blog/understanding-wet-bulb-temperature-the-risks-of-high-wet-bulb-temperatures-explained#:~:text=“At%20high%20enough%20wet%2Dbulb,to%20live%2C”%20said%20Preston.
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