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Will sweat help us survive climate change?

Grist

Even South America, in the throes of winter, saw unbelievable heat: A town in the Chilean Andes topped 100 degrees F — another all-time high. If a widespread power outage hit Phoenix during a heat wave and lasted for days, it could kill thousands and send half the city to the emergency room, according to a recent study.

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

Join me on this quest in which we start by looking into how the Arctic is doing, before making an overview of predictions on ‘when everything is gone’ by various renowned organizations. As long as there is ice in a body of water, any surrounding heat energy is carried towards the ice to make it melt. How is the Arctic doing?