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| | eMedicine - Heat Exhaustion and Heatstroke : Article by Jason Hoppe, DO |
 | | The European summer heat wave of 2003 was exceptionally harsh in both duration and intensity. | | | Convection is the dissipation of heat from the body to the air and water vapor surrounding the body; it accounts for 10% of the body's heat loss. | | | Synonyms and related keywords: heat stroke, heat apoplexy, heat hyperpyrexia, malignant hyperpyrexia, thermic fever, hyperthermia, dehydration, thermoregulatory failure, heat illness, heat-related illnesses, acute heat injury, exertional heatstroke, classic heatstroke, heat waves, heat stress, heat exhaustion |
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http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic236.htm
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| | ScienceDaily: Meteorology |
| | With regional weather disasters such as the Elbe flooding in 2002 and the European heat wave in 2003, decision makers expect from these models accurate assessments about the possible increase of these natural hazards in a specific region. | | | Early Flash Flood Warning System May Save Lives, Property (April 1, 2003) -- Weather forecasters may soon be able to predict deadly flash floods several days in advance using a new technique developed by Penn State researchers and the National Weather... | | | George Hadley is the first to take the rotation of the Earth into account to explain the behavior of the trade winds. |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/meteorology
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| | October 9, 2003: Record Heat Wave in Europe Takes 35,000 Lives |
| | A record heat wave scorched Europe in August 2003, claiming an estimated 35,000 lives. | | | When subject to extreme heat, the body attempts to maintain this ideal temperature by varying blood circulation and perspiring. | | | When the internal body temperature rises above 104 degrees Fahrenheit, vital organs are at risk. |
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http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/Update29.htm
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| | 23/9/2003 -- Deadly European Heat Wave May Repeat |
| | Another condition behind the crisis was something of a shocker for the French and others in Europe: problems with the much-lauded health care system. | | | Michel Combier, president of the National General Practitioners Union, said he estimated only about 20 percent of general practitioners were away during the heat wave. | | | Not only are they physically susceptible to heat-related illnesses, but they often take medicines which make them even more sensitive to rising temperatures. |
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http://forests.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=25868
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| | The effect of the summer 2003 heat wave on mortality in the Netherlands |
| | In 2003, only four deaths were attributed to exposure to excessive natural heat (ICD-10 code X30, including hyperthermia, heatstroke and heat exhaustion) or to the effects of heat and light (T67) as a primary or secondary cause of death. | | | The French heat wave mortality peak of 2003 was not counterbalanced by a trough in the remaining months of the year [3]. | | | Some researchers have demonstrated a temporary fall in the number of deaths following a heat wave [4-7], but the findings of recent research on heat-related excess mortality in the Netherlands are less conclusive: a forward shift of mortality was found in some heat waves, but not in others [2]. |
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http://www.eurosurveillance.org/em/v10n07/1007-227.asp
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| | HazMAP |
| | The European heat wave of 2003 was one of the most deadly natural disasters of the past century. | | | During the summer of 2003, a heat wave scorched Europe and killed more than 19,000 people, according to official estimates by the Associated Press. | | | During the summer months, the NCTCOG study area is frequently affected by severe heat hazards. |
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http://www.hazmap.nctcog.org/risk_assessment/Chapter14.asp
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| | NEJM -- Heat Stroke |
| | Lin, Y.-F., Wang, J.-Y., Chou, T.-C., Lin, S.-H. Vasoactive mediators and renal haemodynamics in exertional heat stroke complicated by acute renal failure. | | | temperature and aggressive treatment, heat stroke is often fatal, | | | Cooling methods used in the treatment of exertional heat illness * Commentary. |
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http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/extract/346/25/1978
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| | European heat wave of 2003 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The summer of 2003 was one of the hottest ever in Europe; this led to a health crisis in certain countries as well as considerable impact on crops. | | | Many blamed Health Minister Jean-François Mattei for not coming back from his vacations when the heat wave struck, and his aides for blocking emergency measures in public hospitals (such as the recalling of physicians). | | | As a consequence, most people do not know how to react to very high temperatures (for instance, with respect to hydration), and most homes and retirement homes are not equipped with air conditioning. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_heat_wave_of_2003
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| | 10.5 Heat waves in the Mediterranean Region: Analysis and model results (2005 - 16Global) |
| | However, the heat-wave occurred in 2003 (the most extreme in 500 years) was the longest and warmest event occurred, with more than 30,000 fatalities in Western Europe, and it has been viewed by some Authors as part of the expected global signal of warming. | | | Initial estimates of the economic loss (more than $13 Billion) place the summer 2003 European heat wave on top of all natural disasters of the year. | | | In particular, as a case study, we analyze the summer 2003 heat-wave event, being not only the longest and warmest detected, but also the most damaging and costly, using NCEP/NCAR reanalysis and multiple datasets. |
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http://ams.confex.com/ams/Annual2005/techprogram/paper_85262.htm
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| | CNN.com - Europe recalls lethal 2003 heat wave - Aug 3, 2004 |
| | The event marks the 2003 European heat wave as the hottest summer in the northern hemisphere. | | | Reports contend that many people died of heat stroke, dehydration, and other heat-related problem due to a delay in receiving medical care. | | | That stagnant air coupled with the unrelenting heat, say some scientists, was responsible for a large number of the deaths. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/08/02/heatwave.europe
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| | European Heat Wave - Nexology Community |
| | although we do scoff at the concept of 100 fahrenheit (38 celsius) being regarded as a "heat wave"! | | | Thought I'd check to see if we have any European participants who are suffering in the heat wave. | | | I was in London once and there was a 'heat wave', it got to the low 90s and I was shocked to see people opening up their houses, throwing doors and windows wide. |
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http://www.nexusportal.net/showthread.php?threadid=4255
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| | Thousands die in European heat wave |
| | Doctors in France have struggled to cope with the increased number of heat stroke victims. | | | The heat wave has reignited debate over whether the high temperatures represent a normal fluctuation in the climate or are a symptom of global warming, with the overwhelming body of current evidence indicating the latter is the case. | | | Temperatures are expected to drop towards the end of this week, but only then will the full extent of the human costs of the heat wave become clear. |
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http://www.globalaging.org/health/world/records.htm
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| | Nat' Academies Press, Rebuilding the Unity of Health and the Environment: The Greater Houston Metropolitan Area: Workshop Summary (2005) |
| | In the European heat wave of 2003, some 2,000 people died in Italy and at least 10,000 (perhaps as many as 15,000) died in France. | | | Humanity’s basic way to stay cooler—use light-colored surfaces and plant trees—was actually known, pre-air conditioning, for thousands of years, and it can certainly be reinstituted with the aid of modern, technology-derived materials to improve the heat island problems in a big city such as Houston, said Akbari. | | | Another aspect of heat island mitigation is the treatment of paved surfaces, particularly for a place such as Houston whose land area is covered so extensively with concrete pavement. |
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http://www.nap.edu/openbook/0309094429/html/49.html
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| | Cooler Heads |
| | Oreskes argues that in her study of 998 abstracts of scientific journal articles on climate change published between 1993 and 2003 relating to climate change, 75 percent indicated agreement with the consensus and 25 percent did not mention it. | | | In addition, the researchers found that the localized French heat wave of 2003 was completely unprecedented. | | | A study published in the December 2 Nature (Stott, P.A., Stone, D.A., Allen, M.R., Human contribution to the European heat wave of 2003) alleges that the freak European heat wave of 2003 was most likely caused by anthropogenic global warming. |
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http://www.cei.org/gencon/014,04398.cfm
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| | Howling At A Waning Moon: As Earth warms, health risks grow |
| | They cited both broad-scale examples - such as the 2003 European heat wave that killed nearly 45,000 in two weeks - and smaller-scale examples, such as the local effects of "urban heat islands," a phenomenon in which cities register temperatures 5 to 10 degrees warmer than the outlying area. | | | "Climate scientists think that human-induced climate change has amplified the severity of recent extreme events such as Hurricane Katrina and the 2003 European heat wave," which has led to a loss in life, said Tony McMichael, director of the Australian National University's Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, who was not involved in the study. | | | But there is also "growing evidence that various infectious diseases are changing their geographic range, seasonality and incidence rate in association with ongoing climatic changes," he said. |
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http://www.howlingthemoon.org/archives/2005/11/as_earth_warms.html
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| | Oops, it IS getting warmer! |
| | It cited the European heat wave of 2003 - during which thousands of people died - as an example of an extreme event made more likely by global warming. | | | The report also warned that more research was needed into the effects climate change could have on the frequency of extreme natural events. | | | The last substantial review of climate change was conducted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2001. |
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http://homepage.mac.com/allosso/iblog/C2145810581/E33466553
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| | The Heat Is Online |
| | : no action, further study of natural variability (July, 2003) | | | ExxonMobil quietly bankrolls a cadre of "naysayer" groups (May, 2003) | | | in 2003, 10 percent above 2002 (Dec. 2003) |
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http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?id=4289&method=full
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| | Inter Press Service News Agency |
| | There is a need now to monitor temperature rises in other parts of the world, Wade said. | | | Many have argued that freak weather conditions over a few seasons are not necessarily indicative of climate change. | | | The report, 'Europe feels the heat - Extreme weather and the power sector', shows London is the city where average maximum summer temperature increased the most, from 20.5 degrees C in the early 1970s to 22.5 degrees C over the last five years, a rise of two degrees. |
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http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/print.asp?idnews=29868
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| | Underground Weather |
| | 2003 August: A heat wave involving temperatures as high as 42 degrees Celsius (108 degrees Fahrenheit) struck Europe. | | | See: European Heat Wave of 2003 September: Hurricane Isabel makes landfall on the United States, killing at least 40 people. | | | Amazon.com: The Weather Underground (2003): DVD The Weather Underground, Todd Gitlin, Kathleen Cleaver, Richard Nixon, Evelle Younger, Brian Flanagan (II), Jim Lange, Billy Graham, Laura Whitehorn, Martin Luther King, Fred Hampton, Don Strickland, Tsetung Mao, Ronald Reagan, Dustin Hoffman,... |
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| | Partnerships around the world |
| | This NASA visualization of satellite data shows areas of unusually warm temperatures (in red) during the brutal European heat wave in 2003 that took thousands of lives. | | | As atmospheric scientists seek to piece together such patterns that affect weather conditions across the globe, they have formed an international research and development program under the auspices of the World Meteorological Organization. | | | The storm set off a series of planetary waves in the atmosphere that sparked unsettled conditions and, within 10 days, caused central Europe to be buffeted with torrential rains. |
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http://www.ucar.edu/communications/international/global.html
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| | Is America About to Follow Europe’s Example? |
| | During the European heat wave of 2003, the French continued their summer vacations. | | | Europe has another related problem—a competing worldview that it has no inherent ability to fight—Islam. | | | This happens because each person believes he or she is a “godlet” “with as much authority to set standards as any other godlet or combination of godlets.”3 With God out of the picture, everything is permissible. |
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http://www.americanvision.org/articlearchive/06-27-05.asp?vPrint=1
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| | Ecopledge Blog: December 2004 Archives |
| | A new report suggests that computer models can now calculate specifically how much the risk of events such as the deadly European heat wave of 2003 has been elevated by global warming. | | | With the Camry holding its place as the country's best-selling passenger car and sales of the Prius hybrid continuing to climb, Toyota sold 19.2 percent more cars last month than in November 2003. | | | Truck sales fell 1.4 percent, giving Toyota an overall increase of 8.8 percent. |
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http://www.ecopledge.com/blog/archives/2004_12.html
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| | Heat wave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The term is applied both to routine weather variations and to extraordinary spells of heat which may only occur once a century. | | | Severe heat waves can lead to deaths from hyperthermia, especially among elderly people. | | | Some regions of the globe are more susceptible to heat waves than others, such Mediterranean-type climates with a summer dry spell which becomes much hotter than usual on certain years. |
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| | CNN.com - Paris heat wave 'kills 100' - Aug. 12, 2003 |
| | But doctors say the heat wave is worse than that endured by Chicago in 1995, when 700 people died from heat-related illnesses in the U.S. city. | | | "People don't come in with 'dying of heat' on their foreheads," The Associated Press quoted Stephane Grossier of the Health Ministry as saying. | | | Paris hospitals are struggling to cope, with 500 new cases of heat-related illness admitted over the past three days. |
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http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/08/12/europe.heatwave
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| | No relief from stifling heat in Europe, wildfires rage on |
| | No relief from stifling heat in Europe, wildfires rage on | | | So this is a warning of sorts of what we're likely to get in the future," Pachauri added. | | | Europe's farmers were also suffering: producers in parts of the German state of Brandenburg said they could lose up to 80 percent of their crops, while in France, about one million chickens have died this week in the suffocating heat. |
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http://www.terradaily.com/2003/030808155421.kczr4e00.html
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| | Nat' Academies Press, Public Health Risks of Disasters: Communication, Infrastructure, and Preparedness -- Workshop Summary (2005) |
| | In the summer of 2003 over 35,000 people died in Europe when an abnormal weather system that lasted for about three weeks aggravated the conditions that had been set in motion by an early and unusually warm spring and low rainfall (Rasool et al., 2004). | | | Within the past decade there have been two heat waves with catastrophic results: the Chicago heat wave of 1995 and the European heat wave of 2003. | | | Although there is some debate, the delayed deaths in Europe may have occurred due to the temperatures and unusual atmospheric conditions reaching a critical juncture, whereas the conditions in Chicago resulted from a sudden onset of extraordinary atmospheric conditions. |
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http://www.nap.edu/openbook/0309095425/html/21.html
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| | European Vacation |
| | The championship was created in 2003 through a working relationship between XPW and the FWA. | | | Arriving at a European train station is an architectureally beautiul way to introduce yourself to a new city and it sets the perfect scene for your new experience. | | | This was to be the flagship of the working relationship as the title would be defended throughout Europe and would appear on both promotions... |
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http://www.european-and-vacation.com
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| | Extreme weather Greenpeace International |
| | The European heat wave of 2003 killed 14,800 people in France alone and more than 30,000 across the continent. | | | Portugal declared a national disaster after the worst forest fires in more than two decades killed nine people, torched thousands of hectares of forest and destroyed homes in 2003. | | | In very broad terms, this is because climate change is putting more energy (heat) into the world's weather systems. |
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| | WorldNetDaily: Socialism kills |
| | But for Europeans and their ideological twins on the American left and at universities, ideas are not judged by their ability to ameliorate human suffering or reduce evil, but by their complexity and apparent profundity. | | | Europe has given the world Marxism, communism, fascism, Nazism, racism and socialism, all rotten ideas that have caused immeasurable human suffering. | | | Because, in the words of British historian Paul Johnson, the French – like most Europeans, and like most left-thinking people anywhere – love ideas more than people. |
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