{"id":115495,"date":"2023-07-17T07:54:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T04:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/uk-norway-switzerland-these-european-countries-are-dangerously-unprepared-to-keep-people-cool\/"},"modified":"2023-07-17T07:54:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T04:54:52","slug":"uk-norway-switzerland-these-european-countries-are-dangerously-unprepared-to-keep-people-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/uk-norway-switzerland-these-european-countries-are-dangerously-unprepared-to-keep-people-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"UK, Norway, Switzerland: These European countries are \u2018dangerously unprepared\u2019 to keep people cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115495\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nResearchers say buildings in places like Northern Europe &#8220;act like greenhouses&#8221; and aren&#8217;t designed to cope with hot days. Switzerland, the UK and Norway are \u201cdangerously unprepared\u201d to keep people cool if the world overshoots 1.5\u00baC of global warming. New research from the University of Oxford has revealed which countries will see the most dramatic increase in days that require cooling interventions like window shutters, fans or air conditioning. 8 out of the 10 countries with the biggest increase in uncomfortably hot days globally will be Northern Europe.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a vicious cycle too, the researchers say. Without proper measures for sustainable cooling, there will be a sharp increase in the use of energy-guzzling air conditioning systems. If fossil fuels are used to combat the heat, then greenhouse gas emissions increase and speed up the rate of global warming. The study uses a concept called \u201ccooling degree days\u201d. These are days where the temperature will be above average for the region and some kind of cooling system is needed to keep populations comfortable. If global warming breaches 1.5\u00baC, Ireland will be at the top of the list with 38 per cent more days with these uncomfortably hot temperatures. Switzerland and the UK will see a 30 per cent increase while Norway will see a 28 per cent increase.<\/p>\n<p>A woman drinks water during the hot weather in the City of London financial district.REUTERS\/Toby Melville<br \/>\nFinland and Sweden come next each with a 28 per cent increase followed by Austria (25 per cent) then Canada, Denmark and New Zealand (24 per cent). The researchers say that these are \u201cconservative\u201d estimates too. They don\u2019t include extreme events like heatwaves which would come on top of the average increases. They say that these countries are \u201cdangerously unprepared\u201d for the change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNorthern European countries will require large-scale adaptation to heat resilience quicker than other countries,\u201d says co-lead author Dr Nicole Miranda. She points out that the UK saw massive amounts of disruption during 2022\u2019s record-breaking heat waves. Extreme heat also brings the risk of dehydration, exhaustion and even death &#8211; especially in vulnerable populations like the elderly or people with disabilities. It\u2019s a health and economic imperative that we prepare for more hot days,\u201d Miranda adds.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the problem is that buildings in places like Northern Europe are better designed to keep the heat in during winter than to keep cool during summer months. Adapting our built environment would mean we don\u2019t need to increase our use of air conditioning, co-lead author of the study, Dr Jesus Lizana explains. \u201cRight now, in countries like the UK, our buildings act like greenhouses &#8211; no external protection from the sun in buildings, windows locked, no natural ventilation and no ceiling fans.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2023\/07\/14\/uk-norway-switzerland-these-european-countries-are-dangerously-unprepared-to-keep-people-c\">Euronews<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/111477\/\">UK, Norway, Switzerland: These European countries are \u2018dangerously unprepared\u2019 to keep people cool<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[575,10733,10734,1336,3143,579],"class_list":["post-115495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-keepcool","tag-norvay","tag-people","tag-switzerland","tag-uk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}