IN 2022, over 60,000 people died in Europe due to extreme high temperatures, so WHO asked people to take precautions ahead of this new normalcy, and launched a campaign on social networks with hashtag #KeepCool.
The new forecasts, published by Nature, assume three times more deaths than those calculated, which will increase as the heat wave increases.
If you feel weak, thirsty or have a headache, the WHO recommends going to a cool place as soon as possible, drinking water to rehydrate and measuring your body temperature for at least 30 minutes, if it remains high you should go to a specialist.
If painful muscle spasms occur, drink oral rehydration solutions containing electrolytes.
Beyond adapting to this new summer reality, we must look to years and decades ahead, given desperate and urgent need for regional and global action to effectively address the climate crisis which poses an existential threat to the humankind, ccording to WHO´s European Department Director Hans Kluge.
John Nairn, specialist at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) claimed heat waves have multiplied by six since 1980.
In this regard, he pointed out the alarming impact on human and animal health and its social and economic consequences.
In his opinion, this year’s extreme high temperatures are alarming, but not surprising because, unfortunately, current conditions coincide with Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change´s reports.
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