Extreme weather and climate change: population health and health system implications

KL Ebi, J Vanos, JW Baldwin, JE Bell… - Annual review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Extreme weather and climate events, such as heat waves, cyclones, and floods, are an
expression of climate variability. These events and events influenced by climate change …

Personal thermal management by radiative cooling and heating

S Xue, G Huang, Q Chen, X Wang, J Fan, D Shou - Nano-micro letters, 2024 - Springer
Maintaining thermal comfort within the human body is crucial for optimal health and overall
well-being. By merely broadening the set-point of indoor temperatures, we could …

Hierarchical-morphology metafabric for scalable passive daytime radiative cooling

S Zeng, S Pian, M Su, Z Wang, M Wu, X Liu, M Chen… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Incorporating passive radiative cooling structures into personal thermal management
technologies could effectively defend humans against intensifying global climate change …

[HTML][HTML] Rising temperatures erode human sleep globally

K Minor, A Bjerre-Nielsen, SS Jonasdottir, S Lehmann… - One Earth, 2022 - cell.com
Ambient temperatures are rising worldwide, with the greatest increases recorded at night.
Concurrently, the prevalence of insufficient sleep is rising in many populations. Yet it …

Integration of Janus wettability and heat conduction in hierarchically designed textiles for all-day personal radiative cooling

D Miao, N Cheng, X Wang, J Yu, B Ding - Nano letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Personal cooling textiles are a promising energy-free pathway for confronting serious heat-
related public health threats and improving industrial worker productivity. Current cooling …

Change in cooling degree days with global mean temperature rise increasing from 1.5° C to 2.0° C

ND Miranda, J Lizana, SN Sparrow… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Limiting global mean temperature rise to 1.5° C is increasingly out of reach. Here we show
the impact on global cooling demand in moving from 1.5° C to 2.0° C of global warming …

Greatly enhanced risk to humans as a consequence of empirically determined lower moist heat stress tolerance

DJ Vecellio, Q Kong, WL Kenney, M Huber - Proceedings of the National …, 2023 - pnas.org
As heatwaves become more frequent, intense, and longer-lasting due to climate change, the
question of breaching thermal limits becomes pressing. A wet-bulb temperature (Tw) of 35° …

Humidity's impact on greenhouse gas emissions from air conditioning

J Woods, N James, E Kozubal, E Bonnema, K Brief… - Joule, 2022 - cell.com
The increasing need to cool the air in our built environment is both a cause and an effect of
climate change. Air conditioning accounts for a large portion of global greenhouse gas …

Green spaces provide substantial but unequal urban cooling globally

Y Li, JC Svenning, W Zhou, K Zhu, JF Abrams… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Climate warming disproportionately impacts countries in the Global South by increasing
extreme heat exposure. However, geographic disparities in adaptation capacity are unclear …

Sub-ambient full-color passive radiative cooling under sunlight based on efficient quantum-dot photoluminescence

X Wang, Q Zhang, S Wang, C **, B Zhu, Y Su, X Dong… - Science Bulletin, 2022 - Elsevier
Daytime radiative cooling with high solar reflection and mid-infrared emission offers a
sustainable way for cooling without energy consumption. However, so far sub-ambient …