How does extreme heat affect your body? - Carolyn Beans

Explore how heat waves affect the body, what levels of extreme heat we can survive, and what you can do to manage high temperatures.

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In many parts of the world heat waves are happening more often with greater intensity and for longer durations. By 2050, Earth’s mid-latitudes could be experiencing extreme heat between 90 and 180 days a year, with tropical regions enduring even more. So how hot is too hot, and what can people do to handle the heat? Carolyn Beans digs into how heat waves affect your body.

Lesson by Carolyn Beans, directed by Reza Riahi.

This video made possible in collaboration with Speed & Scale

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[brosephthejoe]

As one Youtuber said, When it's cold you can just keep adding layers, but if it's hot you can only do so much before it becomes unbearable.

[SuperChez.]

I find it deeply depressing that we have moved from “how to stop climate change” to “how to survive climate change”

[bhinoyj]

5:24 ... My respect to you Ted-ed. The bottle the person has water from was not plastic. They added a sound to show it was glass or even better metal. Love the details❤❤❤

[VLTN]

Here in southeast asia. We're melting please send some winds

[tashibalampkin]

You know how bad the heat gotta be for someone to go back in time and drag their past self out of bed to teach them something.

[Memezndreamz]

The most important thing to understand is that the common person cannot stop it only make it worse. Consumers use the energy heat producing factories produce. If we actually want a difference, we need to figure out alternatives and lobby for bans on these heat producing sources.

[peachy_oolong]

It's fitting this is posted while experiencing sweltering heats in Singapore 😭 The humidity is insane

[zigraint]

32° C is considered cool in Philippines. And that is usually normal. We have heatwave peaks to 52° C for days.

[DarthObscurity]

It's 80+ degrees in Wisconsin at the end of October. It hasn't been this consistently warm this late in the year ever in my life.

[SPYRIDON-LIKE.AJACKSON.SONG...]

thank you ted ed for another video of yours

[유니정이]

Every year becomes the hottest year in the record.

[luketoth]

Reza Riahi's animations are always a treat to watch

[xx_robotkrew_xx]

🎶some times all I think about is late nights in the middle of heatwaves keep faking me out~ can’t make you happier now~🎶

[tashibalampkin]

4:46 I like how the future guides the past by the hand. And how they hug goodbye. 5:14

[lysseul]

Just in time as it’s almost summer here in Perth, Australia…one more month to go until summer and it’s already scorching hot 🥵

[vexcarius]

Dubai Summer - 50 C
Singapore Summer 45 C

Goodluck

[connection]

This summer we had two 3-weeks long heatwaves with temperatures between 35 and 40 degrees every day. It was terrible, since I don't have AC. I am starting to fear summers... And 2050 is not that distant future anymore

[piefighter]

I'm from a town called Wellington, South Africa, and the geography does not lend itself well to cooling. It's so bad that we have the nickname of "hellington" cause in the summer the temperatures can hit 45 celcius in the day and only marginally back down to 30c at night. How do we cope? Good question, you can't work for more than 40 ish minutes without getting in a pool because the sweat from your hands will ruin the book you're writing in. Gaming is almost exclusively nocturnal, lest you jam a frozen cloth into your pc for cooling as I did to play portal. We even soak our bedding in water and sleep on the floor, which is quite comfortable. Cold water during daytime is a valuable commodity since water in the pipes can be heated to often boiling points. At night the fridge is filled completely with water for the next day. I used to be worried about my sweaty smell, but fact is that it doesn't matter cause it is unavoidable at school and everyone wreaks of sweat. And no, we don't have aircons. We have desk fans that cost about 2% of what an aircon costs and is about 0.2% the cost to keep running

[victornoagbodji]

Thanks for those incredible video! The attention to details, the narration, and even the soundtrack are all on point for me in this one 😊🎉

[crazzzyakash]

The story telling element of this video is just mind blowing...❤❤❤❤❤