It is getting hotter in many parts of the world. The World Health Organisation (WHO) warns of imminent death from heat stroke. Its capital Tehran was forecast to approach 55 degrees Celsius. Government spokesman Ali Bahadori Jahromi said the decision to close government offices, banks and schools on Wednesday and Thursday came after the Health Ministry warned of a possible increase in cases of heat exhaustion due to the high temperatures and imminent damage to human health. The UN itself claims that human-induced global warming "causes more than a third of heat-related deaths" worldwide.Ī few days ago in Iran, the government decided to give the population two days off because the extreme heat broke the 50 degrees Celsius barrier in all the southern provinces of the Persian country. Last year, according to Nature Medicine, more than 61,000 people in Europe died from heat stroke and this summer season could end with nearly 100,000 deaths. Some streets are deserted because nobody dares to go out during the day and people have to wait for the sun to go down after nine o'clock at night because the 45 degrees with the hot wind to breathe is unbearable. In the Iberian country, the problem is not only Madrid with temperatures of 40 degrees, in the south, in Andalusia, there are cities where you cannot go out in the street because people are literally baking in the sun: from Cordoba to Seville and the coast of Malaga are affected by the African wind, the terral or terrá, as the locals call it. Spain is on the same path: the fire has burned 47,785 hectares, the Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge has acknowledged that the fire this summer has burned three times as much area as last year. In Italy, a few days ago, Sicily recorded temperatures in excess of 47 degrees Celsius Italy's prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, bravely appealed for emergency help from international fire brigades.įires have also had to be put out in Palermo with outbreaks in the wooded area of Altofonte in Calabria, as well as in Puglia and neither Sardinia nor Lombardy have escaped. The Greek authorities report that a total of 130,000 hectares have burned in July 58,000 hectares have burned on the island of Rhodes alone, but Corfu, Evia and the Peloponnese and even Athens have been engulfed in flames. The fire emergency has prompted the evacuation of thousands of tourists from many Greek islands severely affected by the situation itself.
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