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Please list the major metropolitan cities of the world that have recorded daily temperature highs and lows going back at least 100 years and using that data, show 2023 was the hottest year on record for those cities.

Heat protection is one of the most important considerations for buildings

Millions of Americans are being impacted by extreme heat waves, which are growing in intensity, frequency, and duration due to climate change. In June, heat waves broke records across the country. Puerto Rico experienced its hottest month in more than 120 years, and Texas recorded its top 19 hottest days ever. Parts of Michigan, New York and Vermont also broke their daily temperature records. And in the first six months of 2023, there were 12 individual billion-dollar weather and climate events across the country. The situation is alarming, and it requires an all-of-society response to ensure that communities have the support they need to plan, prepare, and recover from these extreme weather events, which are costing the U.S. billions of dollars every year.

This is a great start. Actually acknowledging the economic and health burdens of extremely heat is imperative. But I have questions. Will the EPA, the Dept of Transportation and HUD regulate measures to mitigate heat islands as an adaptation measure, instead of just having suggestions that are obviously ignored as we plan for density? Will OSHA work with other departments to fund tax credits to businesses that give outdoor employees paid time off on extreme heat days? Will the DOJ enforce the lack of municipal and state accessibility audits and plans that open inaccessible cooling centers and zero means for transportation to get there? More funding for subsidized on demand transit because it’s dangerous to cycle, walk, and wait at bus stops in extreme heat? #transportation #health #work #funding #ClimateMitigation #ClimateAdaptation #EPA #OSHA #DisabilityPrideMonth

https://lnkd.in/eJhjBt8K We have crossed 6 of the nine global thresholds that make human life on earth sustainable. The other three are close to falling. Average people are starting to realize that something is very, very wrong; but average people have been lied to for a long time and do not know what is truth any more. Please stop asking public officials if they "believe in" climate change. Ask them instead what they know about it and how they plan to help your city region, state, or country mitigiate it and/or adapt to it. And if they are not intelligent enough to answer that question, vote them out and then vote in someone who is. Your children's lives depend on it.

As I listen to the weather channel and listen to them describe Phoenix having 112°F weather for a week, Las Vegas something similar and… well you have probably heard the weather reports yourself, I have wondered how long before the migration out of those areas begins. If your kids can’t safely play outside when it is 112°F, and it’s no fun, even dangerous, to sit by a pool at that those temperatures do you really want to live in such a place? Particularly, when you know it is only going to get even hotter as the years go on. We, as a country, and particularly in the Republican controlled Red states, are not doing anywhere near enough to prepare for and attempt to mediate what climate change is going to do to our country. The only thing that is going to change this is to vote in such a way that the Democrats take control of both Houses of Congress, and retain the Presidency. Also that the same happens at the state level. Will Americans be smart enough to do that? I’m not sure.

Available Now! "Under Fire and Under Water: Wildfire, Flooding, and the Fight for Climate Resilience in the American West" by Bruce E. Cain. https://lnkd.in/gZHkZArM Epic wildfire. Devastating drought. Cataclysmic flooding. Extreme weather in the wake of climate change threatens to turn the American West into a region hostile to human habitation—a “Great American Desert,” as early US explorers once mislabeled it. As Bruce E. Cain suggests in this timely book, the unique complex of politics, technology, and logistics that once won the West must be rethought and reconfigured to win it anew in the face of a widespread accelerating threat. The challenges posed by increasingly extreme weather in the West are complicated by the region’s history, the deliberate fractiousness of the American political system, and the idiosyncrasies of human behavior—all of which Cain considers, separately and together, in Under Fire and Under Water. He analyzes how, in spite of coastal flooding and spreading wildfires, people continue to move into, and even rebuild in, risky areas; how local communities are slow to take protective measures; and how individual beliefs, past adaptation practices and infrastructure, and complex governing arrangements across jurisdictions combine to flout real progress. Driving Cain’s analysis is the conviction that understanding the habits and politics that lead to procrastination and obstruction is critical to finding solutions and making necessary adaptations to the changing climate. As a detailed look at the rising stakes and urgency of the various interconnected issues, this book is an important first step toward that understanding—and consequently toward the rethinking and reengineering that will allow people to live sustainably in the American West under the conditions of future global warming.

On the inequality behind the climate crisis, that also reflects on the challenges of environmental justice and the climate-health nexus https://lnkd.in/eMiKmigs

Insurers have pulled out of both California and Florida in recent months. What will a summer of extreme heat mean for European insurers? Join learners on the Certificate in Climate Risk starting this September to find out more about the growing risk of climate change.

The science is clear – climate change is real and poses significant threats to the well-being of the planet.  One need only read through any of the reports issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, whose most recent report incidentally was issued in March, to understand the magnitude of the climate crisis and what needs to be done to address it. July is believed to be the hottest month on record. Record-breaking heatwaves were only one set of examples of extreme weather events in recent months.  To that, we can add the wildfires and the flooding. And there is plenty more to come, in terms of frequency and severity.   Two events caused me to issue yet another briefing note on the climate crisis. The first was the recent publication of an article by the former editor of the Guardian, framed around George Orwell’s 1941 call to arms lambasting those who were unwilling or unable to see the threat posed by fascism and the looming winds of war, and comparing the failure to appreciate the urgency and scope of the threat of fascism to the failure of modern day conservatives to appreciate the urgency and scope of the threat of climate change.  After Munich, Britain rallied, and the rest is history. The question is whether we will do the same with climate change?    Which brings me to the second event: at the Republican presidential debate, when the eight presidential hopefuls on stage were asked for a show of hands as to whether they believe climate change is real, none did.  Nikki Haley later conceded climate change was real, but shifted the blame to China and India. Tim Scott claimed the culprits are China, India and Africa. The playbook for the next Republican president concedes that climate change is real, but is scathing in its critique of the Biden administration’s science-based efforts to combat it, downplaying the consequences and taking issue with the solutions.   My updated analysis of the diverging views on climate change as between Democrats and Republicans, and the implications of that divergence is available here:  https://bit.ly/45MaacP