A 3-Part Plan to Take On Extreme Heat Waves | Eleni Myrivili | TED
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The deadliest severe weather phenomenon is something you might not realize: extreme heat. Eleni Myrivili, chief heat officer of the city of Athens, Greece, explains that extreme heat and heat waves are often overlooked because they're not as dramatic as flooding or hurricanes - and breaks down three approaches to keep cities cool in a time of rapid global temperature rise. "Cranking up the air conditioner is just not going to cut it," she says.
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Love this. We need more visionaries like her and a whole different political system.
This is the hottest damn summer of my life. I can't even walk outside for a second without being drained and drenched in sweat.
@thebigpicture2032
Жыл бұрын
This is the coldest summer here. Only 18 degrees today (66 F) while last year was 40. Weather roller coaster.
@editor6801
Жыл бұрын
I think you'll find its the coldest summer of the rest of your life. Not a pleasant thought if you ask me.
@HBToastedAlmond
Жыл бұрын
@@thebigpicture2032 Damn, where are you ?
The coolest feature of yt is the function to accelerate a video. 1,5 to 1,75 times is the right speed for me for a speech like this.
I heard someone arguing that extreme cold killed many more people than extreme heat, at least historically. I guess its not a competition, both are symptoms of evolving weather which is increasingly volatile and extreme, period.
@hg6996
Жыл бұрын
In the past this was most likely true. But the future will look different. Already the present situation is different.
@tasd5673
Жыл бұрын
I heard this as well, we are better of with heat than an ice age. I’m not a climate denier
@willy956
Жыл бұрын
It kills 8 times more right now, you can look it up. So yes actually a bit more heat would save lives. That is the fact, ofc not denying climate change, not at all, but in that sense it is what it is. We should really look at oceans acidification, plastification and level rising. That's where the important issue is.
Good timing. 40C first time ever in the UK 🔥
After landing in Athens once, my phone gave out a blaring alarm tone at unprecedented volume (nobody else's phone seemed to be doing it) and it was an SMS text message by the government warning of bushfires around the city.
Excellent speaker and presentation! Love Eleni's energy!
well done Eleni!! lovely talk! so timely and real!
Great talk. Killer last line.
Thank you 👍🏻 people need to become positive. The solutions are at stake.
Thanks Sevy , it was a nice video :D I'm an old meta Player, playing National Team and Morgana Team in the abyss, it allows me to wish on characters I really want to play during events, daylies etc... which is the content I love playing the most :D
The easiest remedy is to work at night during those especially hot times. All solutions that don't stop the growing population will help 50% while the population will double, and they will be richer and more demanding too.
Eleni Myrivili, thank you, we really need to plan prevention.
Unless we stop wars, separations between countries, cultures, economic contradictions and struggles, and get unified, we will never seriously change something. It’s necessary for humanity survival in the future…
Thank you
We all need green roofs or have them painted white. This would make quite a difference to the inside of any building. It would reflect the heat back up and the power cost would be far less.
Now we know it's happening everywhere. London over 40....Ridiculous too. Never happened before. Eastern Australia is constantly flooding in winter. Never happened before and burning in the summer.
This talk came out on the hottest day in British history. Never been a more important time for this topic.
We need to change our environment to live a healthy lifestyle
Awesome 👍
Tnx💛💫⚡🤞
Bravo!
This is treating the symptoms. As all this rebuilding occurs it all produces more GHGs increasing climate change. If your going to have any longterm effect on climate change you have to reduce birth rates and fundamentally change our economic system to one that is sustainable. No one’s even discussing this.
Bravo 👏
For those saying " suck it up it's just summer it's normal". I'm sure they are sitting in front of their a/c sipping their iced coffee, unaware of anything other than what to consume next.😒
So... The Pressure at that stage is unbelievable for 10 minutes.
Have a cold day in winter, mention it, response is: "YOU CAN'T JUST LOOK AT WEATHER, CLIMATE IS LONG TERM PATTERNS! THE EARTH IS STILL WARMING!" Have a hot day in summer: "iT's ClImAtE cHaNgE!!!!!!"
Can someone list the three points?
City heating is so dangerous. Think of all the Pets, they can’t take excessive heat, they die from high heat, period.
Clearly we need to act fast, some interesting measures here but main issue has to be moving away from hydrocarbons more rapidly than we are, scaling up renewables investing in tech for solar and possibly nuclear to rescue in short term
@thebigpicture2032
Жыл бұрын
Nuclear and geothermal is the way to go.
@janedmunds4218
Жыл бұрын
Nuckear works in France
It's really sad that we have come to this point of coping with climate change instead of fighting against it. But I guess that's just what's realistic and practical to do now.
@arielleespinosa9058
Жыл бұрын
It has to be both, every degree raised matters. One can only adapt so much.
Until human counsiousness for more consumption won't reduce, it's impossible to save humanity.
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1) Panic 2) Calm down and think of ways to reverse global warming 3) Realize we are too late and binge watch Netflix * I did not watch the video
Keeping cool heat causes; until there is no cool.
@teddydotson3727
Жыл бұрын
Too many clouds in the sky...
It’s been 50 years since the 1972 Stockholm conference, and there have been so many climate conferences until today. All talk and no or little action. In the meantime, it seems to have become too late, with things getting only worse and worse. Everything has a point of no return. And the climate crisis may well have already reached its tipping point. All we can do now is to try to mitigate the impact just like a driver who, when knowing a crash is unavoidable, tries to minimize the damage by braking and steering.
@hg6996
Жыл бұрын
You are right. Katastrophic consequences of sea level rise are already unavailable. Coastal cities are doomed.
@akiraigarashi2874
Жыл бұрын
Well it's better to do something late than never no?
@hg6996
Жыл бұрын
@@akiraigarashi2874 Generally speaking you are right. But the amount of action is by far not enough.
@jimtakahashi4638
Жыл бұрын
@@akiraigarashi2874 : Like I said, only to mitigate the impact.
Climate change has become a very serious matter we should grow more trees and reduce using fossil fuel and we should use sustainable, renewable energy solar energy is the hope for the future
they already doing that in the Middle East.
An app that tells you stay home because of the weather. Are my bills going to disappear or am I living in a government facility?
@diablo55
Жыл бұрын
No, they’re trying to not get you killed. Take off your tinfoil hat buddy
@katrod46
Жыл бұрын
Ok what’s your idea then?
@thebigpicture2032
Жыл бұрын
Your bills disappear when you die.
@duck6885
Жыл бұрын
These apps already exist. If there was a tornado you would stay home, what’s the difference? The app can not lock your doors, it’s just a sensible suggestion
@Blindingstarshine
Жыл бұрын
A tip would be to fight for the right to work from home. If you career can be done from home in any form
But how do the people in the near East, Africa or Middle Australia survive the heat then? I guess you can get used to some higher temperatures.
MEDELLIN MENTIONED 🗣🗣🗣🗣❗❗❗❗WTF IS A BAD CITY
Talk starts at 9:41
Please research. Grand soler minimum
Ironically a reputable representative of where the terminology of Metropolitan was established, is stipulating the utmost importance of, in-effect, enabling a collective symbiotic relationship with 🌏ur fragile Biosphere ⚠️
Paradoxically Could someone give synonym for this word
@stephanyparsons2477
Жыл бұрын
contradictory, self-contradictory, inconsistent, incongruous, anomalous, conflicting. improbable, impossible, odd, illogical, confusing, absurd, puzzling, baffling, bewildering, incomprehensible, inexplicable. rare oxymoronic.
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Extreme anything is bad, i don't think we should pretend one extreme or the others is the deadliest just because we experienced it recently. Nobody would say, ah, extreme cold, well it could be worse.
Wht's the defanition of "extreme" heat?
As I sit here in my ICE vehicle I see a young man filling his old diesel VW when it mid 80°s F and DEW Point ar 74° feeling we won't get Earth's 350 parts per billion of carbon dioxide to be Increasing beyond 400. We'll either Fry ourselves or destroy each other for precious food and water which will be NONE left.
@thebigpicture2032
Жыл бұрын
We already hit 414 CO2 last year. We will hit about 1000 before this ship begins to right itself.
its geeting worse cuz NFT, cryptocurencies for some people build miner with so much VGA, air conditioner 🙃
I thought the original people who created everything on the planet can handle the heat….I love the heat I need it to get hotter I love it
Hello!
no more evictions in winter or summer better yet no more evictions from primary residences!!
Yeah too bad the giant cloud canopy that used to cover our planet is gone
@thebigpicture2032
Жыл бұрын
It’s not gone. Been parked over my house in the Pacific NW since last September.
Why worry about climate when there are profits to be made.
Oh boy. Another way to invoke lockdowns.
Karma from Russia, behold....hahahaha
Some of her ideas are good. However, we cannot base any decisions we make on the Current Climate. That is the height of ignorance, propaganda, and hugely detrimental folly. We are in an Ice Age. And the climate could change to be 5 or 10 degrees colder on average overnight/ within 5 or 10 years, -a century or less. There is nothing Humans can do about the Weather. Humans have nothing whatsoever to do with Climate. The scientific evidence is absolutely conclusive/ overwhelming in this regard. Yet we are continually propaganda brainwashed with the Special Interest Political and Financial Agenda, to accept the conspiracy as scientific fact.
What fantasy does she live in where this happens anytime soon. We are fucked.
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Summer...it is called Summer
@diablo55
Жыл бұрын
@@johnathoncastro You realize we can tell what the temperature was like millions of years ago because of ice samples, right? It’s not like we have no idea what the temperature was in 1921 either just because it’s over 100 years ago
@DavidS-ji6qv
Жыл бұрын
This comment seems to come from a climate change denier. I assume I cannot convince you that human caused climate change is real, but at the very least can I convince you that the changes she advocates for are net positives? Don’t we all want our urban spaces to be greener, cooler in the summertime, more resistant to floods and soil erosion? It seems like a win-win, even if you don’t believe that humans are warming the planet through emission of greenhouse gases.
Hoax
Yawn..anything credible or honest to discuss Ted?
@DavidS-ji6qv
Жыл бұрын
Are record setting heatwaves not worth discussing?
@kellyantle8428
Жыл бұрын
@@DavidS-ji6qv and the fabled rising sea levels and the sharknados if ya want..but we're not going to eviscerate the entire global economy and kill billions while you lot pretend you have a solution......cause ya don't!!! Smarten up ffs!
Which extreme heat waves? Damn it woman it´s summer. It´s you know... normal.
@MsKimmie41
Жыл бұрын
Right 😂
Fake
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