{"id":357768,"date":"2024-12-22T08:51:36","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T07:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=357768"},"modified":"2024-12-22T08:51:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T07:51:38","slug":"claim-1300-people-dying-of-heat-stress-on-the-pilgrimage-to-mecca-is-proof-of-the-climate-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=357768","title":{"rendered":"Claim: 1300 People Dying of Heat Stress on the Pilgrimage to Mecca is Proof of the Climate Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"485\" data-attachment-id=\"357773\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=357773\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0Hajj-pilgrims-saudi-arabia.jpg?fit=1423%2C955&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1423,955\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0Hajj-pilgrims-saudi-arabia\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0Hajj-pilgrims-saudi-arabia.jpg?fit=723%2C485&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0Hajj-pilgrims-saudi-arabia.jpg?resize=723%2C485&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-357773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0Hajj-pilgrims-saudi-arabia.jpg?resize=1024%2C687&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0Hajj-pilgrims-saudi-arabia.jpg?resize=300%2C201&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0Hajj-pilgrims-saudi-arabia.jpg?resize=768%2C515&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0Hajj-pilgrims-saudi-arabia.jpg?resize=1200%2C805&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0Hajj-pilgrims-saudi-arabia.jpg?w=1423&amp;ssl=1 1423w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2024\/12\/20\/claim-1300-people-dying-of-heat-stress-on-the-pilgrimage-to-mecca-is-proof-of-the-climate-apocalypse\/\">Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Essay by<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/author\/eworrall1\/\">Eric Worrall<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c\u2026 the upper limits of human heat tolerance were breached for a total of 43 hours over the six days of Hajj. \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>More than 1,300 Hajj pilgrims died this year when humidity and heat pushed past survivable limits. It\u2019s just the&nbsp;start<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Published: December 19, 2024, 6.08am AEDT<br><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/profiles\/emma-ramsay-1497221\">Emma Ramsay<\/a>\u00a0Research Affiliate in Climate Adaptation, Monash University<br><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/profiles\/shanta-barley-2276303\">Shanta Barley<\/a>\u00a0Adjunct Lecturer in Ecology, The University of Western Australia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every year, hundreds of thousands of Muslims undertake the Hajj \u2013the sacred pilgrimage to Mecca. In 2024, the pilgrimage took place in mid-June, the start of the Saudi summer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But this year, more than 1,300 pilgrims&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/23\/hajj-pilgrimage-death-toll-extreme-heat-mecca-saudi-arabia\">never made it home<\/a>. Lethal heat combined with humidity proved deadly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41558-024-02215-8\">new research<\/a>&nbsp;shows the upper limits of human heat tolerance were breached for a total of 43 hours over the six days of Hajj. During these periods, heat and humidity passed beyond the point at which our bodies are able to cool down.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scientists are increasingly worried about the death toll caused by humid heatwaves, and how it will escalate in the near-term. This year is now the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/environment\/2024-will-be-hottest-year-record-eu-scientists-say-2024-12-09\/#:%7E:text=C3S%20said%20data%20from%20January,year%20on%20record%20was%202023.\">hottest year<\/a>&nbsp;on record, overtaking the previous hottest year&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wmo.int\/news\/media-centre\/climate-change-indicators-reached-record-levels-2023-wmo#:%7E:text=The%20WMO%20report%20confirmed%20that,ten%2Dyear%20period%20on%20record.\">of 2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year\u2019s pilgrimage started on June 14. Over the next six days, the temperature&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/20\/more-than-1000-hajj-pilgrims-die-in-mecca-as-temperatures-hit-high-of-51c\">topped 51\u00b0C<\/a>, while \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/why-40-c-is-bearable-in-a-desert-but-lethal-in-the-tropics-206237\">wet-bulb temperatures<\/a>\u201d (the combination of temperature and humidity) rose as high as 29.5\u00b0C.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026Read more:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/more-than-1-300-hajj-pilgrims-died-this-year-when-humidity-and-heat-pushed-past-survivable-limits-its-just-the-start-245271\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/more-than-1-300-hajj-pilgrims-died-this-year-when-humidity-and-heat-pushed-past-survivable-limits-its-just-the-start-245271<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The abstract of the study;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Comment<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Published:\u00a018 December 2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Humid heat exceeds human tolerance limits and causes mass mortality<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41558-024-02215-8#auth-Tom-Matthews-Aff1\">Tom Matthews<\/a>,\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41558-024-02215-8#auth-Emma_E_-Ramsay-Aff2\">Emma E. Ramsay<\/a>,\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41558-024-02215-8#auth-Fahad-Saeed-Aff3\">Fahad Saeed<\/a>,\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41558-024-02215-8#auth-Steven-Sherwood-Aff4\">Steven Sherwood<\/a>,\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41558-024-02215-8#auth-Ollie-Jay-Aff5\">Ollie Jay<\/a>,\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41558-024-02215-8#auth-Colin-Raymond-Aff6\">Colin Raymond<\/a>,\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41558-024-02215-8#auth-Nerilie-Abram-Aff7\">Nerilie Abram<\/a>,\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41558-024-02215-8#auth-Jason_Kai_Wei-Lee-Aff8\">Jason Kai Wei Lee<\/a>,\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41558-024-02215-8#auth-Shanta-Barley-Aff9-Aff10\">Shanta Barley<\/a>,\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41558-024-02215-8#auth-Sarah-Perkins_Kirkpatrick-Aff7-Aff11\">Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick<\/a>,\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41558-024-02215-8#auth-Mariam_Saleh-Khan-Aff12\">Mariam Saleh Khan<\/a>,\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41558-024-02215-8#auth-Katrin_J_-Meissner-Aff4\">Katrin J. Meissner<\/a>,\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41558-024-02215-8#auth-Callum-Roberts-Aff13\">Callum Roberts<\/a>,\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41558-024-02215-8#auth-Dileep-Mavalankar-Aff14\">Dileep Mavalankar<\/a>,\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41558-024-02215-8#auth-Kenneth_G__C_-Smith-Aff15-Aff16\">Kenneth G. C. Smith<\/a>,\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41558-024-02215-8#auth-Atta-Ullah-Aff12\">Atta Ullah<\/a>,\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41558-024-02215-8#auth-Anwar-Sadad-Aff12\">Anwar Sadad<\/a>,\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41558-024-02215-8#auth-Victoria-Turner-Aff17\">Victoria Turner<\/a>\u00a0&amp;\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41558-024-02215-8#auth-Andrew-Forrest-Aff9-Aff10-Aff18\">Andrew Forrest<\/a>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nclimate\"><em>Nature Climate Change<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;(2024)<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41558-024-02215-8#citeas\">Cite this article<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>78\u00a0Altmetric<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41558-024-02215-8\/metrics\">Metrics\u00a0details<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hottest boreal summer on record has driven widespread humid heat mortality across every continent of the Northern Hemisphere. With critical physiological limits to human heat tolerance drawing ever closer, this Comment highlights the urgent need to limit further climate warming and emphasizes the adaptation challenge ahead.Read more:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41558-024-02215-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41558-024-02215-8<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The wet bulb limit claim is nonsense.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I was young, one of my first jobs was working in a poorly ventilated plastic factory. My fellow workers were a pregnant South Sea Islander and a bunch of chain-smoking elderly East Europeans who used to smuggle vodka into the lunchroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During Summer\u00a0<strong>the temperature on the factory floor regularly hit 55C (130F)<\/strong>. The factory was extremely humid, not only did the decrepit hot presses release huge amounts of steam, but the chemical processes also released lots of water vapor. You could see visible clouds of steam hovering around the work area, everything was dripping wet. The work was physically demanding, continuously moving material by hand and operating a heavy hot press lever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was the strangest experience walking out into a 110F day at the end of my shift and shivering with cold for two minutes while my body adjusted to outdoor temperatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t know what the wet bulb temperature on that factory floor was, but on the hottest days all the managers played serving maid, offered us rehydration drinks every 5 minutes. They were probably breaching some workplace health and safety law operating in those temperatures and wanted to make sure none of us dropped dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>So, what happened to those Hajj pilgrims?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Obviously, we can only speculate, but it seems much more likely the pilgrims died from dehydration and neglect, or didn\u2019t give themselves enough time to adapt to the heat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can\u2019t walk into the extreme conditions I just described, or the extreme conditions of an Arabian Summer, and expect to feel fine immediately. You have to build up hot weather tolerance the same way you build altitude tolerance when preparing for extreme mountain climbing. Hajj pilgrims who just flew in from colder countries without giving themselves time to adapt would have severely stressed their bodies the moment they set foot outside the airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, to survive such heat you have to consciously remind yourself to drink regularly \u2013\u00a0<strong>if you wait until you feel thirsty, your body is already in trouble.<\/strong>\u00a0Those managers in that factory I described were offering rehydration drinks every 5 minutes because that is what your body needs in such conditions, it is easy to become distracted and forget to take care of yourself. You also need well balanced drinks, an electrolyte imbalance is lethal in such conditions \u2013 drinking soda cans or anything other than a well-balanced rehydration drink, you could suffer a health crisis within hours if you don\u2019t take proper care of yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My grandpa who worked in even more extreme conditions in a WW2 steel foundry told me how managers walked the factory floor making sure everyone took salt pills, to prevent workers from fainting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m sure the locals know how to survive, this is where they live \u2013 they would have learned as kids how to survive in such a climate. But people who aren\u2019t used to such conditions, or who get caught up in the moment and forget to drink water, it\u2019s no different to someone who lives in a temperate climate visiting somewhere really cold in winter. If you don\u2019t know and rigorously follow the rules, if you don\u2019t take care of yourself, you could lose your life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obviously, we can only speculate, but it seems much more likely the pilgrims died from dehydration and neglect, or didn\u2019t give themselves enough time to adapt to the heat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":357773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691819743,691822170,691832218,691820424,691819657],"class_list":["post-357768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-propaganda","tag-heat-stress","tag-pilgrimage-to-mecca","tag-temperatures","tag-water-vapor","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0Hajj-pilgrims-saudi-arabia.jpg?fit=1423%2C955&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1v4s","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":335045,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=335045","url_meta":{"origin":357768,"position":0},"title":"Wrong, Mainstream Media, Hajj Deaths Not Unusual or Due to Climate Change","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"06\/28\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Dozens of mainstream media outlets have run stories in the past week linking the heat related deaths during the annual Hajj in Saudi Arabia to climate change. 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