Think heatwaves affect everyone equally? Think again.
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Research shows women bear the brunt of extreme heat, from body temperature regulation to disrupting the menstrual cycle.
Oxford climate scientist Chloe Brimicombe explains the gendered impacts of climate change, and why groups like children and the elderly are especially vulnerable as Europe faces another intense heatwave, made more likely and more intense by fossil fuelled climate change.
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43 Comments
Wtf. Woke sht. Can we go back to normal now? Why on earth youd do a video on this. Main stream media will be dead in 5 years. Thank God literally 🙌 yes men and women are different well done!
I'm sorry, who called DJ Khallid?
Saying climate change affects women more than men is a strange thing to say when the whole of humanity is at risk. Kind of misses the point.
No accident that Goldilocks was a woman… It's too hot…. It's too cold….
Am I right fellas?
I'm here all week…..
You read this comments and realise why we’re on borrowed time as a species.. holy f
Lived in Italy 22 years of my life before moving to the uk. Trust me, heat in the summer makes periods heavier and does delay them. The heat makes your body too stressed
Not everything needs to be men vs women
Oh god here we go again
That second image was disgusting. WTH.
Is that why my Mrs is cold until it gets to 23C and is too hot at 27C where as im not cold until it drops to 5C and get hot when it gets above 38C. I just laugh and say your thermostat is broken.
Jeez so many triggered men over a simple bit of science
Geoengineering makes heatwaves worse.
Clearly climate change is sexist.😂
Never been more happy to be post-menopausal
What is wrong with men? Can’t handle a bit of education about women’s anatomy but you all claim to be the protectors of women?
Lies😂 The sun is natural vitamin D . Many countries are hot like this all year round .
Back in the day we would have enough water at least to maintain crops or sprinklers for the grass.
Every time summer is hot in the UK they reduce the water supply 😂😂😂😂
Extreme heat affects everyone. Trying to turn heatwaves into a ‘woman’s health issue’. Is ridiculous and counter productive. It’s biased stuff like this that makes people turn against feminism. Clearly showing you’re ignoring that it’s mostly men working outdoors in extreme heat while you sit in an air conditioned office with the other women.
Have a day off
Tell that to all builders and everyone on job sites sweltering in the heat while y’all are sat in Costa complaining about it
Okay but if they don't do well in the heat, why do they insist on running scalding hot showers?
Quit making excuses, or suffering excuses to be made, and get air conditioning.
What we really need is a climate change implication that affects rich men most.
Women need to rule the world. We are just better at everything.
Add night sweats and hot flushes to this heat…..Autumn please hurry up.
WOMEN CARD😂
THAT IS NOT WHAT A UTERUS LOOKS LIKE INSIDE THE BODY ! It’s 2026 for …. sake
Completely missing the obvious fact that we have a higher core temperature than men, making us more sensitive to temperature changes.
how many more men dies cause of physical labour outside?
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Course because every aspect of life is harder for the women
Women's health needs more research and funding.
Mums, wives and daughters 🫡
Men are in more intensive labour jobs than women.
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Fun fact men and women genetically are over 90% the same.
And yet women love to have the heating on full blast at the expense of the men on the house who can't handle it!
What if you are no longer getting periods ? Menopause ?
Europeans are making a big deal and a big scene of this heatwave.
Japan, India, Saudi Arabia, North Africa, some lived in desert and other have 45°C and they still continue to live with this heat.
I don't find them complaining except India recently.
As a man I reject this report.
I don't think so mate.
It’s insane how the men in this comment section just hate to see this. What is it that’s so triggering? That it focuses on women? That it makes it feel like men don’t struggle in the heat too? If having to accept the heat effects women is so damning to you, you might need to take a look at yourself
BBC/TV license forcing YouTube to promote their propaganda like spam ads, that’s why channel 4 showing up on my feed 💩
i get it but haven't you gals been dealing with this since like the start of humanity?