Anonymous
08/01/2024 10:06
Subject: When will it get too hot?
Anonymous wrote:Climate change is a disaster. Billions of people are truly suffering - droughts, floods, weeks of 100+ degree weather with no air conditioning. And it's getting hotter in DC, definitely.
But for healthy nonelderly people who don't work outside here, it's not going to affect us greatly on a day to day basis. Our bodies can adjust to a degree or two higher temps. And when it's 100+, you adjust your outdoor activities. Last year when it was 100+ many outdoor activities were cancelled, but my daughter's cross country practice continued. They ran less, ran slower, stayed in the shade, and took more water breaks. It was fine. And I'm a healthy middle aged guy and took a 2 hour bike ride in 100+ degree weather.
Biking is a very smart exercise because at 15mph the wind you create helps cool off your body. Walking two hours will not do that.
Anonymous
08/01/2024 10:02
Subject: When will it get too hot?
Climate change is a disaster. Billions of people are truly suffering - droughts, floods, weeks of 100+ degree weather with no air conditioning. And it's getting hotter in DC, definitely.
But for healthy nonelderly people who don't work outside here, it's not going to affect us greatly on a day to day basis. Our bodies can adjust to a degree or two higher temps. And when it's 100+, you adjust your outdoor activities. Last year when it was 100+ many outdoor activities were cancelled, but my daughter's cross country practice continued. They ran less, ran slower, stayed in the shade, and took more water breaks. It was fine. And I'm a healthy middle aged guy and took a 2 hour bike ride in 100+ degree weather.
But for healthy nonelderly people who don't work outside here, it's not going to affect us greatly on a day to day basis. Our bodies can adjust to a degree or two higher temps. And when it's 100+, you adjust your outdoor activities. Last year when it was 100+ many outdoor activities were cancelled, but my daughter's cross country practice continued. They ran less, ran slower, stayed in the shade, and took more water breaks. It was fine. And I'm a healthy middle aged guy and took a 2 hour bike ride in 100+ degree weather.
Anonymous
08/01/2024 08:55
Subject: When will it get too hot?
As a teacher I have wondered if eventually we will need to shift the calendar to where “summer break” is in April-May when you can actually be outdoors. Having off July/August when it’s literally deadly to be outside for too long increasingly makes no sense. Kids would be better off inside in those months.
Anonymous
08/01/2024 08:36
Subject: When will it get too hot?
I was also thinking about HS sports and how they start practices in August mid day. And for those teens volunteering at summer camps outdoors when it’s 100. And of course the kids attending those camps.
Do sleepaway camps not have AC? Many college dorms don’t either. I remember sweating it out in the 90s at college. How is this possible in this day and age to not have AC?
Do sleepaway camps not have AC? Many college dorms don’t either. I remember sweating it out in the 90s at college. How is this possible in this day and age to not have AC?
Anonymous
07/31/2024 22:52
Subject: When will it get too hot?
I saw 10 degrees more in 20 years. I’ve told my kids to gravitate North in later years.
Anonymous
07/31/2024 22:27
Subject: When will it get too hot?
We’re already there, OP
Anonymous
07/31/2024 22:13
Subject: When will it get too hot?
Anonymous wrote:I’ve thought about this from many angles, but two small ones related to what you’ve said- summer sports (baseball and soccer; the NWSL pushed back 1 pm start times this July to 6pm due to heat- who scheduled that?!) and also wondering how kids at sleep away camp fare these days.
I remember going to sleep away camp in the poconos in the 1990s. It was legitimately cold in the morning. I remember wearing a sweater to breakfast and then taking it off as it warmed up during the day and was cold again at night. Do any camps have AC at all? How do the kids and adults deal?
Now I live in nyc and it’s just hot all the time. It doesn’t cool down in summer like it used to. I know this anecdotally, but there was also a detailed NYT graphic the supports the same claim.
Wondering how sports , kids camps will adjusts and those are just 2 small details, but ones I’ve been thinking about.
The problem with much of NYC is that it is so densely packed with large buildings and nothing but concrete that everything retains the heat through the evening.
Anonymous
07/31/2024 22:03
Subject: When will it get too hot?
I’ve thought about this from many angles, but two small ones related to what you’ve said- summer sports (baseball and soccer; the NWSL pushed back 1 pm start times this July to 6pm due to heat- who scheduled that?!) and also wondering how kids at sleep away camp fare these days.
I remember going to sleep away camp in the poconos in the 1990s. It was legitimately cold in the morning. I remember wearing a sweater to breakfast and then taking it off as it warmed up during the day and was cold again at night. Do any camps have AC at all? How do the kids and adults deal?
Now I live in nyc and it’s just hot all the time. It doesn’t cool down in summer like it used to. I know this anecdotally, but there was also a detailed NYT graphic the supports the same claim.
Wondering how sports , kids camps will adjusts and those are just 2 small details, but ones I’ve been thinking about.
I remember going to sleep away camp in the poconos in the 1990s. It was legitimately cold in the morning. I remember wearing a sweater to breakfast and then taking it off as it warmed up during the day and was cold again at night. Do any camps have AC at all? How do the kids and adults deal?
Now I live in nyc and it’s just hot all the time. It doesn’t cool down in summer like it used to. I know this anecdotally, but there was also a detailed NYT graphic the supports the same claim.
Wondering how sports , kids camps will adjusts and those are just 2 small details, but ones I’ve been thinking about.
Anonymous
07/31/2024 21:57
Subject: When will it get too hot?
I was passing out from the heat in the early '80's during outdoor summer camps. So it's been too hot for 40+ years.
Anonymous
07/31/2024 21:55
Subject: Re:When will it get too hot?
It’s been awful. My husband is 62 and pretty fit and recently after walking 18 holes playing golf on a hot and humid day he passed out despite drinking many bottles of water. He was taken to the ER and they said every year it gets worse. He is soon to retire and we are leaving DC.
Anonymous
07/31/2024 21:51
Subject: When will it get too hot?
Anonymous wrote:Maybe when you quit driving your kids all over in your gas guzzling SUV, carbon emissions will be reduced and climate change will stall.
Stall? No. Never.
There are 1.4 billion vehicles on the planet. 100,000 plane flights per day.
And the factories. And heating and cooling homes...
There is no stalling.
Anonymous
07/31/2024 21:48
Subject: When will it get too hot?
Maybe when you quit driving your kids all over in your gas guzzling SUV, carbon emissions will be reduced and climate change will stall.
Anonymous
07/31/2024 15:51
Subject: Re:When will it get too hot?
Anonymous
07/31/2024 15:47
Subject: When will it get too hot?
Anonymous wrote:Every summer it seems to get hotter. Articles always suggest these far off years where we reach the tipping point like 2050, 2100, etc.
I feel like we are already so hot!?
My kids play travel sports and during summers, they play sports outside. I'm feeling like I don't want to sign them up for off season training because the summers are just so hot. Am I the only mom that doesn't want my kid out there playing Super Y for soccer and running 5 miles for XC in HS? Last year was hot, I feel like this year hotter, next year I have to believe would be hotter but these events still continue with plenty of kids. Am I the only one like WTF?
Do you think it'll get to a point within the next 5 years where there will be more limits on outdoor activities esp for the younger set or do we all grin and bear it until it gets to a point where we just all don't go out at all?
We are fast approaching a point where we will all be gasping for air, year around. YOUVE BEEN WARNED!
Anonymous
07/31/2024 11:28
Subject: When will it get too hot?
Every summer it seems to get hotter. Articles always suggest these far off years where we reach the tipping point like 2050, 2100, etc.
I feel like we are already so hot!?
My kids play travel sports and during summers, they play sports outside. I'm feeling like I don't want to sign them up for off season training because the summers are just so hot. Am I the only mom that doesn't want my kid out there playing Super Y for soccer and running 5 miles for XC in HS? Last year was hot, I feel like this year hotter, next year I have to believe would be hotter but these events still continue with plenty of kids. Am I the only one like WTF?
Do you think it'll get to a point within the next 5 years where there will be more limits on outdoor activities esp for the younger set or do we all grin and bear it until it gets to a point where we just all don't go out at all?
I feel like we are already so hot!?
My kids play travel sports and during summers, they play sports outside. I'm feeling like I don't want to sign them up for off season training because the summers are just so hot. Am I the only mom that doesn't want my kid out there playing Super Y for soccer and running 5 miles for XC in HS? Last year was hot, I feel like this year hotter, next year I have to believe would be hotter but these events still continue with plenty of kids. Am I the only one like WTF?
Do you think it'll get to a point within the next 5 years where there will be more limits on outdoor activities esp for the younger set or do we all grin and bear it until it gets to a point where we just all don't go out at all?