Students continue to listen attentively to their teacher who teaches them their lesson for the day with the aid of an electric fan to lessen the heat that they feel due to high temperature.
Heat index, as defined by Pagasa, refers to “a measure of the contribution that high humidity makes with abnormally high temperatures in reducing the body’s ability to cool itself.” According to this agency, 42 °C to 51 °C heat indicators are perilous as high temperatures that may cause heat cramps, exhaustion, and heat stroke during continued exposure.
Children and youth advocates expressed concern about the effects of climate change in their education and quality of life. She believes that inequality exacerbates climate change’s impacts, as big nations and corporations contribute to rising temperatures, leaving those with little to struggle the most. She said: “They must be held accountable.”