Most Powerful Forces on Earth: Heatwaves | Fatal Forecast | Free Documentary

The urgency of addressing the heatwave crisis is crystal clear in this documentary. It's a stark reminder of the consequences of climate change. Thank you for shedding light on this critical issue and encouraging us to take action to protect our planet.

Watching this in July 2023 I’m thinking we probably need another documentary. 🥺🔥🚨

I just watched “Kiss The Ground” on Netflix. Especially on desertification and the documentaries on all the forest fires especially in Maui and California. We are so vulnerable on the ground. I started planting more in my garden. If everybody plants a tree instead of more and more concrete, we could make a difference.

I live in Dallas Texas and we have been getting weather of over 110 to 120 Fahrenheit about 42 Celsius over the past 1 month and continuing. It is terrible

Excellent scientific documentary on a potentially fatal global problem today. Those of us who live in tropical countries like me and are acclimatized to extreme heat in the summer season of every year are bewildered to see heatwave scorching even the temperate regions on earth. This summer right from April 2023 to July 2023 has been unbearable in parts of India where the South West Monsoon rains have not cooled the sun cooked parts of my country. Global Warming and Climate Change needs no more evidence than what we are experiencing right now.

Humans will only act when it's too late. We are melting ice caps to feed our industries, mainly the silicon-producing ones. The greed needs to stop. Our attitude also needs to change along with government policies.

Hypothermia is a medical emergency that occurs when your body loses heat faster than it can produce heat, causing a dangerously low body temperature. Normal body temperature is around 98.6 F (37 C). Hypothermia (hi-poe-THUR-me-uh) occurs as your body temperature falls below 95 F (35 C). Heatstroke is a life-threatening condition that happens when your body temperature rises above 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius). It’s usually the result of overexertion in hot, humid conditions. Symptoms can include confusion, seizures or loss of consciousness. Untreated, heatstroke can lead to organ failure, a coma or death.

What ever happened to cross ventilation? Architects used to design houses that had cool breezes flowing through when the windows were open.

The world can't even agree on Celcius or Farenheight temp scale.

my age is 35 years and in my entire life I never experienced the hottest day as yesterday 18/07/2023. it was extreme day in Asia.

Painting roads white and making roofs "green" by planting plants on roofs would help a lot to reduce the rural "heat bubble".

Big up from Jamaica mankind is in trouble indeed

I remember he climate activists told us in 2012 that we had 5 years until we all dried up and the oceans would rise 20 ft taking the beach front houses around the world with it, meanwhile, wealthy people still buy beach front houses to this day and insurance companies still insure them. I think the truth is somewhere in the middle, as always.

Humans are responsible for helping the planet to get warmer and we shall see more extreme weather events to come. Great video and I hope this video will change the way we see ourselves in responsibility for this change in our future.

Neurodiversity awareness: be very careful about adding music while people are speaking because you may make it inaccessible to those of us who cannot cope with multiple sensory inputs.

The film mentioned trees and transpiration followed by a picture of pastures rimmed by trees. Those pastures were once forests. We've been clearing forests bit by bit since the agricultural age kicked in and that greatly intensified during the industrial revolution and into today. It isn't just fossil fuels that are causing climate change. Few would argue that the earth would be heating up even if humans didn't exist, albeit, maybe a tad slower. The film also mentions the increase in industrial pollution as a contributing factor. Look at how society always wants the newest fad. We are a wasteful species. Few products are made to last anymore. And lastly, and I haven't seen this mentioned in any documentary, people actually cut down the trees that shade their homes to install solar panels! We are not addressing the problems, just making them worse.

After experiencing the heat wave in Florida a couple years back, I am terrified!!!! And that was 102 degrees. 130 degrees is insane!

the end has begun already

Watching this in Georgia...no electricity for 2 days. No AC is not fun. A storm tore up electric power poles.

They never mentioned the effect of animal agriculture on the environment and climate. And as we loose more arable land and the population goes up it will have an exponential negative impact as we try to feed the planet with an outdated food system that is more destructive than any other human endeavor.