[MCN] Gateway communities near National Parks wary of virus-bearing tourists

[Lance Olsen]

The Park Service is selling out to telecom giants <http://list.hcn.org/t?r=3391&c=16535&l=1&ctl=2327C:43A6A96306A109B1422474E4CEC6C198&>
The danger of self-isolating from COVID-19 on public lands <http://list.hcn.org/t?r=3391&c=16535&l=1&ctl=2327C:43A6A96306A109B1422474E4CEC6C198&>
Gateway communities grow wary of out-of-town crowds.
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"Around 30% of the world’s population is currently exposed to climatic conditions exceeding this deadly threshold for at least 20 days a year.”
 
“We do not quantify human deaths per se because the extent of human mortality will be considerably modified by social adaptation (for example, use of air conditioning, early warning systems, and so on (18–20). Although social adaptation could reduce the exposure to deadly heat (18–20), it will not affect the occurrence of such conditions. Given the speed of climatic changes and numerous physiological constraints, it is unlikely that human physiology will evolve the necessary higher heat tolerance (21,22), highlighting that outdoor conditions will remain deadly even if social adaptation is broadly implemented. “
 
Mora et al. Global risk of deadly heat. Nature Climate Change. Published online 19 June 2017
DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE3322
 

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