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"Phoenix is America’s hottest city, and it’s getting hotter. The global climate
crisis and decades of sprawling urban growth has turned this desert city into a
hazardous heat island with dwindling water supplies and inadequate shade.
An assortment of programs to cool down Phoenix and help people survive the heat
have not been working: in Maricopa county, which includes Phoenix, record high
temperatures contributed to at least 662 deaths between 2020 and 2021, while
thousands more people needed emergency medical treatment.
That’s where the city’s new Office of Heat Response and Mitigation comes in.
The pioneering heat team was created last September amid pressure from
activists, researchers, faith groups and health experts for a dedicated team
responsible – and accountable – for making Phoenix more livable.
David Hondula, a climate and health researcher at Arizona State University, was
hired to lead the four-person team and coordinate the city’s immediate efforts
to cut heat deaths and illness, and come up with ways to cool the city and make
it more comfortable in the long term. It’s the first local government funded
heat team in North America, possibly the world. “It’s a long game – we’re
fighting for small wins that we hope will accumulate into larger wins,” said
Hondula. “We need to prepare for and recover from every summer, not occasional
heatwaves.”
The Guardian spent a day with the Phoenix heat team during one of the hottest
spells of the year so far."
Via
The Fixer August 17, 2022:
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Cheers,
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
