Watch out. Summer is coming and it's going to be hot and probably hotter than last year. How do you prevent a heat stroke in that summer heat day? On this Startalk episode Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly learn about stopping heat illness deaths and the challenges of increasing heat waves with kinesiologist, Bud Cooper, and climate scientist, Radley Horton.
What is heat illness? Learn about the body’s thermoregulation and what happens when the process loses balance. How do you spot someone who is having a heat stroke? How do you intervene in that situation? What do you think is the wet bulb globe temperature? The people in the show discuss the impacts that surfaces have on heat and why heat illness can be tricky to diagnose. Is heat stroke anything like a traditional stroke?
How can humans regulate athletic events to make them safer? Bud tells us about his policy suggestions and his three-year epidemiological study on heat illness in high school football in Georgia. How will heat illness change as different regions experience heat waves? Is heat going to be an issue for the The FIFA World Cup in Qatar this year?
Next, they speak with Radley Horton about extreme heat and the reasons climate change results in extreme weather patterns. What is tail risk? Do you think that are humans' climate models able to predict unlikely but catastrophic disasters? The people in the video discuss water and other factors affecting the heat. What is an atmospheric river? How do higher global temperatures lead to more storms? All that, plus, how humans can get our policy and infrastructure prepared for the heat.
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