Los Angeles Times: ‘Rising heat is causing students to underperform across the globe’ – ‘As climate

[rangerrebew]

Los Angeles Times: ‘Rising heat is causing students to underperform across the globe’ – ‘As climate change drives temperatures higher’ the ‘heat significantly impairs students’ cognitive abilities, affecting their academic performance’
By Marc Morano
July 31, 2025
9:22 pm
 

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-07-31/rising-heat-consequences-for-students-new-study

By Marcos Magaña – Los Angelos Times

Excerpt: Even on days when temperatures were between 80 and 90 degrees Fahrenheit, the data show that students can experience heat stress, followed by a drop in cognitive performance. The effects of heat exposure on learning are often not seen until much later, said Konstantina Vasilakopoulou, a Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology professor who co-authored the paper with Matthaios Santamouris of the University of New South Wales. “So many studies have found that temperatures of the year before a serious exam affect students more than temperatures during the exam year itself. We simply do not have enough time to recover,” Vasilakopoulou said.

According to the paper, students from lower-income families often have less access to air-conditioned classrooms and homes, making them more vulnerable to the harmful effects of heat. Racial disparities were also evident in the data, with Black and Latino students in the U.S. seeing up to three times greater cognitive losses due to heat compared to their white peers.

“There are larger numbers of Black and Hispanic people living in poorer areas where the conditions are worse, temperatures higher, and air conditioning and ventilation often lacking,” Vasilakopoulou said.

Future climate scenarios predict even greater, and in some ways, surprising challenges. By 2050, if current warming trends continue without adequate adaptation measures, students in currently cooler regions may start to suffer the same problems that those in warmer climates do now. That’s because in places that are already hot, there’s more likely to be some amount of infrastructure to deal with the heat, whereas in colder areas, that may not be the case.

https://www.climatedepot.com/2025/07/31/los-angelos-times-rising-heat-is-causing-students-to-underperform-across-the-globe-as-climate-change-drives-temperatures-higher-the-heat-significantly-impairs-students-cognitive-a/

[rangerrebew]

When I went to K - 12 in the 50s and 60s, I don't remember A/C and I did ok.  I got two master's degrees, so the global warming didn't bother me.  Of course, maybe I escaped real devastation because Al Gore hadn't yet invented it.

[roamer_1]

When I went to K - 12 in the 50s and 60s, I don't remember A/C and I did ok.  I got two master's degrees, so the global warming didn't bother me.  Of course, maybe I escaped real devastation because Al Gore hadn't yet invented it.

That's right. It's all a load of crap. It's called acclimatization, and pretty well everybody can do it, almost automatically.

You'd have to start in the spring or you'll fry like an egg, but shut off the air conditioning and go outside. And STAY outside. Watch what happens.

[Smokin Joe]

Stay hydrated and keep your electrolytes up. The IDF did a test and found that in desert heat, troops best maintained combat readiness with a water intake of roughly one liter an hour (not the British quart per day). 'Salt tablets' are no stranger to those who have worked heavy construction in summer.

It's the same working in the heat or riding a motorcycle (especially wearing a skid lid).
Brain fog in either situation can be fatal.

It would work for students, too. They will acclimate to the heat, and who knows? ...maybe even spend time doing stuff outside instead of sitting in a climate controlled bubble looking at a screen.

[Free Vulcan]

Scaremongering by vague generalities and hyperbole, the favorite collectivist tactic.

[GtHawk]

When I went to K - 12 in the 50s and 60s, I don't remember A/C and I did ok.  I got two master's degrees, so the global warming didn't bother me.  Of course, maybe I escaped real devastation because Al Gore hadn't yet invented it.

Who else remembers the teacher turning out the lights and telling you it will be cooler? Or was that just a California thing? It’s amazing how well and how much more children learned back in the day in the heat and no AC. I think this is just made up to give failing teachers and school administrators another excuse for turning out ignorant students.

[mountaineer]

Despite 1.32 trillion tons of emissions, July 2025 was cooler than July 1998.

Oh. Never mind.

https://twitter.com/JunkScience/status/1953445319166841155

[mountaineer]

Don't worry about the heat. We'll be cooling down very soon, if history is any guide:



Peter Clack
@PeterDClack
A million years of temperature fluctuations, all entirely due to the orbital variations revealed by Serbian mathematician, Milutin Milankovic. CO₂ played no part at all in these global cycles, which have been occurring on earth throughout the 2.58 million year ice age. Once successful economies across the western world are facing collapse as this drakonian campaign drives away cheap coal, oil & gas energy. The transition from these reliable sources of power to unproven & unreliable wind & solar is likely to cost $178 trillion, with vast amounts of cash handed to undeveloped countries by the United Nations, to spend as they wish. There are audits or UN  accountability. It defies science & amounts to the greatest economic & societal swindle in world history.
12:22 AM · Aug 9, 2025

[The_Reader_David]

Correlation does not imply causation. 

Convince me with a controlled study with students randomly assigned to air conditioned class rooms and exam rooms or whatever is normal in their country (unlike in the US AC is not the norm in most places).

[andy58-in-nh]

The planet is on fire!!!! Women and minorities hardest hit!!!  Film at 11!

Same shit... different decade.

[Wingnut]

I remember back in 74.  It was hot as hell in August. We were freshmen. For the life of me, I cannot believe We'd ever die for these sins.