{"id":4447,"date":"2025-02-04T13:38:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T05:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/hrpc\/?p=4447"},"modified":"2025-02-07T13:42:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T05:42:18","slug":"its-time-to-take-the-heat-seriously-experts-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/hrpc\/its-time-to-take-the-heat-seriously-experts-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s time to take the heat\u00a0seriously, experts warn\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4447\" class=\"elementor elementor-4447\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fa29ad4 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"fa29ad4\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bd703d5 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"bd703d5\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-12cf497 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"12cf497\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"553\" src=\"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/hrpc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/02\/697393-800x553-1.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-4448\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/hrpc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/02\/697393-800x553-1.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/hrpc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/02\/697393-800x553-1-300x207.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/hrpc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/02\/697393-800x553-1-768x531.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ea1de95 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"ea1de95\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5ec4661 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"5ec4661\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2198eb9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2198eb9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>aul John Ala considers Metro Manila\u2019s heat a normal, albeit unpleasant, part of life. But last year was \u201cextremely hot\u201d for the 29-year-old accountant.<\/p><p>Usually, Ala prefers to work from home to save up on commuting costs. But the heat was so intense that \u201cI found myself reporting to the office for two months straight\u201d just to be in air-conditioned rooms. On the weekends, he said, \u201cI stayed in coffee shops\u2026 it was so hot that I couldn\u2019t concentrate.\u201d<\/p><p>Ala was one of 4.6 million Filipinos affected by the extreme heat wave that hit the country last year. Heat indices surpassed 42 degrees Celsius and forced the closure of 4,000 schools nationwide. The government declared a state of calamity in about 432 cities, with Cebu City, the most populous in the Visayas region, even declaring a water crisis.<\/p><p>This extreme weather event \u201cwould not have happened without climate change,\u201d said World Meteorological Organization Joint Office for Climate and Health lead Joy Shumake Guillemot.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ba3f165 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"ba3f165\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d8c3af9 elementor-align-right elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"d8c3af9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.inquirer.net\/news\/its-time-to-take-the-heat-seriously-experts-warn\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Read more<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This extreme weather event \u201cwould not have happened without climate change,\u201d said World Meteorological Organization Joint Office for Climate and Health lead Joy Shumake Guillemot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9327,"featured_media":4448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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