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Lethal Humidity Global Council's letter to world leaders
It calls on world leaders to "move beyond all policies that inhibit the development and deployment of renewable technology in order to achieve the defossilisation of our economy".
It implores them to back the Positive Power Plan and endorse four key policy shifts that are urgently required to avoid the catastrophes that will come with a continued rise in lethal Humidity.
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World Leaders,
We, the undersigned, come from the world's leading research and academic institutions, and consist of a diverse range of climate scientists, public health experts, policy makers and industrialists.
There is scientific consensus that rising humidity and heat pose a serious and growing threat to humanity. At temperatures as low as 30˚C, under conditions of high humidity, the human body struggles to cool down by sweating. Death can result.
As temperatures increase, so does the potential for episodes of high temperature and high humidity beyond what humans and many mammals – including livestock, an important source of protein globally – can endure for more than a few hours.
These impacts will not be equitable. Society's most vulnerable, such as the elderly, young children and the poor, will suffer the most. At population scale, this is called Lethal Humidity and its impacts will be felt globally, especially in tropical and sub-tropical regions.
Some of the most populous regions on Earth are at risk, including parts of India , China , the United States , Indonesia , Pakistan , Bangladesh , Mexico , Northern Australia and many other countries across Africa , Asia , South America and Europe
Rising humidity is also driving some of the most violent weather the world has seen and the threat will only grow as the world gets hotter. We must prepare for abrupt environmental and social change.
World Leaders, we must move beyond all policies that inhibit the development and deployment of renewable technology in order to achieve the defossilisation of our economy.
At least four key policy shifts are urgently required:
The direct impacts of lethal humidity with heat on human mortality will be widespread, as will the indirect effects associated with loss of labour, migration and geopolitical destabilisation. As leaders, we must immediately address both – but never one at the expense of the other.
We can still create a world fit for our children and future generations if we act now.
We call on you to endorse the Positive Power Plan.
, Chief Technology Officer, Office of Principal Scientific Advisor, Government of India
, Atmospheric Sciences, Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia
, Executive Vice President, Institute of Climate Change, Tsinghua University
, Head, Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
, Research Meteorologist, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego , USA
, Atmospheric pollution, Centre for Research in Environment, Sustainability Advocacy and Climate Change, Institute of Science and Technology
School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University
, Climate Physicist, Climate and Environmental Physics and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern , Switzerland
, Institute Chair, Centre for Atmospheric Sciences. Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
, Climate Scientist and Extreme Heat Researcher, Karl-Franzens- Universität Graz & University of Reading
Professor & Country Director (NIHR GRC NCD-EC), Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Faculty of Public Health, Sri Ramachandra Institute and Higher Education, Chennai , INDIA
AC FRS FAA, University of New South Wales Sydney Winner Prime Minister's Prize for Science 2022
, Epidemiology Indian Institute of Public Health, Bhubaneswar Public Health Foundation of India
Climate Science, The Australian National University , Australia
, Interdisciplinary Programme in Climate Studies, IIT Bombay
MRCGP FFPH, Sustainability Lead, Cambridge Public Health Interdisciplinary Research Centre, University of Cambridge
, Heat and Health, Director of the Heat and Health Research Incubator, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney , Australia
, Heat and humidity effects; Regional Lead: South Asia and the Middle East, Climate Analytics
, Clinician and Researcher, Climate Change and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford
, Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, Yardi School of AI�� Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
, Climate Change/Earth System Science, Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter, UK
, Director, Centre for Climate Change and Disaster Management, Centre for Environmental Studies, Department of Civil Engineering, Anna University
, Oxford Centre for Global Health Research, Nuffield Department of Medicine | University of Oxford
AO, Minderoo Foundation, Tattarang and Fortescue; Honorary Research Fellow, University of Western Australia
, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge
, Humid heat in urban settlements, Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
, Department of Medicine, Stanford University
, FFA Centre for Marine Science & Innovation,
University of New South Wales Australia
, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of
Oxford ; United Nations Economic Commission for
Africa ; Acadia Infrastructure Capital
, Computer Science, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge
, Marine Conservation, Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, UK
, Climate scientist, UNSW Canberra, Australia
, Climate scientist; Director, Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales , Australia
, Chief Scientist, Minderoo Foundation
, Chief Climate Scientist, Fortescue; Adjunct Lecturer, University of
Western Australia
, Chief Climate Scientist, Fortescue; Adjunct Lecturer, University of
Western Australia
, CEO Australian Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering
, Bharti Institute of Public Policy, Indian School of Business
, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National Uni- versity
, Sustainability, Enterprise & Environment, University of Oxford
, Minderoo Foundation and The University of Western Australia
, Geography, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles , USA
, Sociology, UCLA ; External Professor, Santa Fe Institute
, Sustainability Transitions Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management University of California , Berkeley
, Research Fellow of King's College Cambridge and Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge
, Director, Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory, University of California Santa Barbara
, Climate and sea level scientist, University of Tasmania
, Director, Fortescue; Chair, American Chamber of Commerce in Australia ; Governing Council of Australian National University
, Interdisciplinary Programme in Climate Studies, IIT Bombay, India
, Judge Business School & Kings College, University of Cambridge
, Head, Neuroepidemiology Research Group, The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Texas San Antonio , Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
, Youth Ambassador, Dept. Environment & Sustainability, University of British Columbia
, DSTE-IGEOS-Glaciology laboratory – Université Libre de Bruxelles , Belgium
, D.Sc., FAA, University of Tasmania , Australia
, National Centre for Scientific Research, Sorbonne
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