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Being a mom is hard — the heat is making it harder
It's 8:52 AM and 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 Celsius) where I live in Southern California. My husband just came back from a morning outing with our four-month-old. "How was the botanic garden?" I ask him. "It was okay. It was just too hot," he tells me. I didn't expect us to spend so much of our son's first summer cooped up inside, hiding from the heat. As I write this, an extreme heat warning for my area is glaring at…
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According to a new study, kids are growing up with an extra month of heat stress thanks to climate change.
It’s 8:52 AM and 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 Celsius) where I live in Southern California. My husband just came back from a morning outing with our four-month-old. “How was the botanic garden?” I ask him. “It was okay. It was just too hot,” he tells me. I didn’t expect us to spend so much of our son’s first summer cooped up inside, hiding from the heat.
As I write this, an extreme heat warning for my area is glaring at me from my phone, effective for at least the next three days. “Dangerously hot conditions with high temperatures up to 110 [degrees Fahrenheit] expected,” my weather app warns me. “Stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out of the sun.”
It’s the sort of warning more kids are growing up with as global average temperatures climb. Around the world, 560 million children under the age of 10 are experiencing at least one additional month of heat stress each year as a result of climate change, according to a new study published in the journal Science Advances .
“I hope that this increases public awareness that climate change is a problem that is already happening today, that’s already affecting us,” says Rosa Pietroiusti, lead author of the study and a PhD researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussel . “It’s affecting the health of the most vulnerable.”