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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July 18, 2022 at 6:55 pm
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Rob Samartino
July 18, 2022 at 6:59 pm
People have been talking about global warming for decades and they have been consistently and profoundly wrong in their predictions. We forget hot summers in the past. What a bunch of none sense and fear mongering.
Angel Rodríguez
July 18, 2022 at 7:16 pm
Thank you 👍🏻 people need to become positive. The solutions are at stake.
KJ
July 18, 2022 at 7:18 pm
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
The Big Picture
July 18, 2022 at 7:33 pm
Nuclear and geothermal is the way to go.
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July 18, 2022 at 10:54 pm
Nuckear works in France
Anthony
July 18, 2022 at 7:21 pm
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.
The Big Picture
July 18, 2022 at 7:36 pm
This is the coldest summer here. Only 18 degrees today (66 F) while last year was 40. Weather roller coaster.
Ed Itor
July 18, 2022 at 8:47 pm
I think you’ll find its the coldest summer of the rest of your life. Not a pleasant thought if you ask me.
Olivia Mahe
July 18, 2022 at 8:51 pm
@The Big Picture Damn, where are you ?
Bradley Pidge
July 18, 2022 at 7:24 pm
Yeah too bad the giant cloud canopy that used to cover our planet is gone
The Big Picture
July 18, 2022 at 7:43 pm
It’s not gone. Been parked over my house in the Pacific NW since last September.
Lietu
July 18, 2022 at 7:32 pm
Ez, just hang a giant IR filter above the city on some hydrogen balloons, or between satellites on the geostationary orbit.
Morton
July 18, 2022 at 7:33 pm
Which extreme heat waves? Damn it woman it´s summer. It´s you know… normal.
Alec Holland
July 18, 2022 at 7:41 pm
I rarely comment ted talks, but this one deserves. She trully had very important things to say. Thank you!
Home Wall
July 18, 2022 at 7:53 pm
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.
Know Nothing
July 18, 2022 at 8:15 pm
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.
solid comms
July 18, 2022 at 8:39 pm
Please research.
Grand soler minimum
Ed Itor
July 18, 2022 at 8:49 pm
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.
PsYchoGvnner
July 18, 2022 at 9:00 pm
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.
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July 18, 2022 at 9:47 pm
no, they literally just die. Also air moisture is very important to consider if heat is deadly or not because high air moisture means that sweating doesn’t work. People in the near East for example dont have as much of a problem as people in india
FANATIC FORAGER
July 18, 2022 at 9:41 pm
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 ⚠️
The English Academy
July 18, 2022 at 9:53 pm
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
Hot Rod
July 18, 2022 at 10:07 pm
Fake
Hot Rod
July 18, 2022 at 10:07 pm
Hoax
Teddy Dotson
July 18, 2022 at 10:31 pm
Keeping cool heat causes; until there is no cool.
Teddy Dotson
July 18, 2022 at 10:45 pm
Too many clouds in the sky…
Shylock's Legacy
July 18, 2022 at 10:40 pm
blablabla
stephany parsons
July 18, 2022 at 10:57 pm
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.😒
Tom Nook
July 18, 2022 at 11:26 pm
Good timing. 40C first time ever in the UK 🔥
Robert Montero
July 19, 2022 at 12:09 am
Awesome 👍
bosnianlady10
July 19, 2022 at 12:13 am
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
PVM
July 19, 2022 at 1:25 am
We need to change our environment to live a healthy lifestyle
Vivalaleta Godfrey
July 19, 2022 at 2:42 am
Love this. We need more visionaries like her and a whole different political system.
Andrew A Cornwell
July 19, 2022 at 3:03 am
So…
The
Pressure at that stage is unbelievable for 10 minutes.
Scott Storm Carter
July 19, 2022 at 3:35 am
Eleni Myrivili, thank you, we really need to plan prevention.
John Mark Francis
July 19, 2022 at 4:16 am
Can someone list the three points?
Denise Fuentes
July 19, 2022 at 4:23 am
Good luck with that.
Amit Singh
July 19, 2022 at 4:58 am
The presumably smart designs are going to be proved dumb if the wisdom of nature is patented behind locked vaults to accumulate disproportionately the perceived wealth.
Traditionally humans learnt to live with nature as relatives of nature until some bullies came to squeeze nature off its coal, oil, minerals and what not.
Tell us the history of what became “modern”; the so called “civilisation” where war against living and non-living things have been fought day in day out in the name of the same coal, oil, minerals and lives.
Jim Takahashi
July 19, 2022 at 5:43 am
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.
Hermann Brummer
July 19, 2022 at 5:58 am
You are right.
Katastrophic consequences of sea level rise are already unavailable.
Coastal cities are doomed.
Akira Igarashi
July 19, 2022 at 9:14 am
Well it’s better to do something late than never no?
Hermann Brummer
July 19, 2022 at 9:19 am
@Akira Igarashi Generally speaking you are right. But the amount of action is by far not enough.
Jim Takahashi
July 19, 2022 at 9:21 am
@Akira Igarashi : Like I said, only to mitigate the impact.
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July 19, 2022 at 5:49 am
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.
Kathleen O'Neill
July 19, 2022 at 6:13 am
Bravo!
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Gordon Bailey
July 19, 2022 at 7:11 am
Wht’s the defanition of “extreme” heat?
None of your Damn Business
July 19, 2022 at 8:22 am
*Where tf are they measuring the temperature? In the sun? The weather reports or weather apps are showing always 5 or 6 degrees more than in reality. My thermometer is in the shadow!*
Sinyo Tuek
July 19, 2022 at 8:37 am
Karma from Russia, behold….hahahaha
Mohammad Reza Alidadi
July 19, 2022 at 10:15 am
Tnx💛💫⚡🤞
sympaticosympatico
July 19, 2022 at 12:16 pm
Why worry about climate when there are profits to be made.
Sunnat Xayrilloyev
July 19, 2022 at 3:28 pm
Paradoxically
Could someone give synonym for this word
stephany parsons
July 19, 2022 at 5:56 pm
contradictory, self-contradictory, inconsistent, incongruous, anomalous, conflicting. improbable, impossible, odd, illogical, confusing, absurd, puzzling, baffling, bewildering, incomprehensible, inexplicable. rare oxymoronic.
kartforU
July 19, 2022 at 3:41 pm
Until human counsiousness for more consumption won’t reduce, it’s impossible to save humanity.
D Lionel
July 19, 2022 at 3:53 pm
Bravo 👏
Laralinda
July 19, 2022 at 4:01 pm
Und in Deutschland rasten die Leute aus weil ihnen der Schotter”garten” verboten werden soll …
Thắng Nguyễn
July 19, 2022 at 5:01 pm
Thank you
Michele Ploeser
July 19, 2022 at 6:07 pm
City heating is so dangerous. Think of all the Pets, they can’t take excessive heat, they die from high heat, period.
Kimmy Lilith
July 19, 2022 at 8:08 pm
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
None Of Your Business
July 19, 2022 at 11:06 pm
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!!!!!!”
A T
July 19, 2022 at 11:54 pm
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.
Aniruddh Jain
July 20, 2022 at 4:43 am
Talk starts at 9:41
Jordan Fisher
July 20, 2022 at 5:16 am
Great talk. Killer last line.
M k
July 20, 2022 at 2:15 pm
What fantasy does she live in where this happens anytime soon.
We are fucked.
Gaasuba Meskhenet
July 20, 2022 at 4:38 pm
no more evictions in winter or summer
better yet
no more evictions from primary residences!!
Oscar Moxon
July 21, 2022 at 12:19 am
This talk came out on the hottest day in British history. Never been a more important time for this topic.
Sovereign Citizen LEO
July 21, 2022 at 4:29 am
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.
Александр Л
July 21, 2022 at 6:17 am
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…
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July 21, 2022 at 1:03 pm
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Toni
July 22, 2022 at 11:55 am
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.
Toni
July 22, 2022 at 12:03 pm
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.
Robert Thompson
July 24, 2022 at 12:33 am
Blah, Blah, Blah! Nothing will change. All talk and little action. Those in power are using fear and ignorance to make a buck.