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With extreme heat waves in Europe, Asia, the United States and beyond, it’s clear climate change is making summers more dangerous and deadly. Urban areas are feeling the worst effects; a phenomenon known as the urban heat island effect. 2022 saw high temperatures in Kansas, Spain, Portugal, England (especially London), and India. But even within cities, the warming is not distributed evenly. During the Pacific Northwest heat dome of 2021, the region’s most extreme heat wave ever, this temperature difference reached a staggering 25°F between neighborhoods in Portland, OR. And new research is illuminating how a century of racist housing policies known as redlining have contributed to this often deadly inequality.
The 2022 heat waves are not single events. They are another data point during years of escalating extreme weather. Previously, the 2019 European heat wave, the 1980 US heat wave, 1995 Chicago heat wave and many more are part of this trend.
In this episode we are going to dive into this unjust history of housing discrimination and see what it can teach us about how to keep cities cooler and save lives. We’ll visit Richmond, Virginia and Portland, Oregon to understand the problem and solutions. Innovative solutions are being carried out at the Science Museum of Virginia and by the Portland organization, Friends of Trees.
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The US is the most 3rd world country of the developed ones
Oh my God, why do you have two mustaches on your forehead? It dosen't look good, it looks really really bad, super bad!
Quit with the "Latinx" BS already! Also, they spent more time bitching about redlining than going over any of the solutions besides trees!
as long as you keep cars out of the cities, it‘s easy to create good spaces.
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To the narrator: what are the coloration on the outside edges of your forehead?
Tattos?
Birthmarks?
Newest trend?
Just curious because I admire tattoo artwork.
If birthmarks, interesting that the appear to be symmetrical.
If trend, when did that start? I missed the memo.
Very interesting.
LAST 7 YEARS IN A ROW HOTTEST ON RECORD YEAR AFTER YEAR
EVERY YEAR FROM NOW ON
DEADLY RECORD BREAKING HEAT
DEADLY RECORD BREAKING RAINS
DEADLY RECORD BREAKING WINDS
OVER 100mph
DEADLY RECORD BREAKING SNOW UNTIL GREENLAND AND ANTARCTICA COLLAPSE
A CARBON MOLECULE HAS A 30 – 50 YEAR LAG TIME BEFORE MOLECULE REACHES ITS FULL POTENTIAL IN HOLDING HEAT MASS
METHANE NATURAL GAS
NITROUS OXIDE
WATER VAPOR
CARBON = 8 DEGREE CELSIUS GLOBAL TEMPERATURE RISE SINCE THE 1700s
NUCLEAR FOSSIL FUEL FRACKING IPCC ONLY MEASURING CARBON 2 DEGREE CELSIUS GLOBAL TEMPERATURE RISE SINCE THE 1700s
WHITE RACIST FAKE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION NUCLEAR FOSSIL FUEL FRACKING EXECUTIVE EXTINCTION EXECUTION CAUSING LYING AND DENYING DEADLY GLOBAL WARMING CLIMATE CHANGING SEA LEVEL RISING OVER 220 FEET BY THE END OF 2023 ?
CHRISTIAN NATIONS WARRING RUSSIA vs USA NATO FOR GLOBALIZATION
9 MORE COUNTRIES TO DESTROY RUSSIA CHINA IRAN SYRIA NORTH KOREA CUBA VENEZUELA NICARAGUA PALISTINE
MASONIC VATICAN COLONIZED NUCLEAR FOSSIL FUEL FRACKING BITCH SLAPPING EARTH IN WARRING SLAVE MINERAL OIL AN GAS EXTRACTION TERRITORIES
DESTROYING OUR FRAGILE LIFE SUSTAINING ECO-SYSTEMS HABITAT
VATICAN SMALL GROUP OF men DECIDED TO LIE CHEAT STEAL BEAT POISON JAIL TORTURE AND MURDER FOR FAKE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
FAKE god
FAKE jesus
VATICAN REMOVED NATURE TREES AND STREAMS FROM MAN & MAN & WOMAN
BORN IN SIN NEEDING TO REPENT TO MASONIC VATICAN COLONIZED LIES OF LIFE
FAKE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
FAKE god
FAKE jesus
1,500 FOOT TSUNAMIS SLAMMING ARE GLOBAL COAST FUKUSHIMATIZING EARTH
444 NUCLEAR REACTORS
450 NUCLEAR FACILITIES
20,000 NUCLEAR WEAPONS
250,000 TOXIC TONS OF RADIATED NUCLEAR WASTE
ON THE MASONIC VATICAN COLONIZED NUCLEAR FOSSIL FUEL FRACKING EARTH
Politicians killed this world not the people. Politicians take out trees and don't replant them. Politicians continue to pump oil and give no regulations on the c02 being pumped into the air. Politicians are the only ones to create laws regarding big oil and their recklessness. Politicians continue to kill the rain forest. Politicians are the ones killing the people. It is too late to save this planet. I've been saying for 5 years now we only have 50 years left of life on Earth. 5 years went by and nothing happened. Now I'd say we only have 40 years left before the climate climbs another 20 degrees which would ultimately kill all fish and wildlife. Water will no longer pour. The water will then turn into salt in the air which then will suck up our oxygen. The world's air will become so toxic it will literally suck the air out of your lungs. The oxygen on this planet will decimate in a few years and the human race will die. It is going to happen it is too late to reverse the damage. Things should have been done in the 80s. Now 40 years later it is far too late. PLANT TREES IN THE GHETTOS PLANT TREES EVERYWHERE AND GIVE EVERYONE A CHANCE TO LIVE!!
Trees are also a huge fire hazards in hot dry weather.
This is hilarious. How much did this production cost? Man, I need to get a "Huh ?" channel too.
This is insanity, people, and so many of you believe it. Talks of "climate emergency", green parking is just dumb. It is not different in the Atlanta area than it was 25 years ago. If anything, we have a little more rain.
More trees pay more taxes yup stuff like that makes sense, but I do agree it would be far to say more white people like trees. Ok change the whole color of people on paper, I agree the paper don't seem normal wording.
6:10 The messed up thing is here I see good development, multi-story affordable housing and walkable mixed-use developments. The only thing this area is lacking is trees. The wealthier neighborhood I see the opposite problem, tons of tree cover but it's packed with single family homes. A solution to the climate crisis will have to involve both, building missing middle housing, multi-family affordable homes in neighborhoods covered with trees and other shade.
Maybe time to convert our plastic into shade devices and areas!
Work safety.. stop Work outside- without loss of pay. ( below $25)- social should chip in.
Whats that on her forehead?
Best way to depave large unneeded paved surfaces? Tips on how to remove old unnecessary parking lots?
Heat is a form or type of pollution. Do you know how much heat the collective sun of automobiles make? Whenever the brake pedal of a car is pressed, large amounts of heat is created due to the friction of the braking mechanism. The car being nearly all metalic, holds onto this heat and slowly releases it back into the atmosphere long after the trip is done. Possibly lower income (and hotter) neighborhoods have more traffic?
Wed be extremely lucky to go through 2030 without being extinct.
Cities are shit.
There are many solutions which no one mentions including white roofing which does not absorb as much as regular dark colors.
Better yet, the ceramic roof tiles used in Middle Eastern nations.
Also manipulation of weather by nefarious means, as well as satellites that may be diverting sunlight to earth, etcetera.
I believe almost everything being said but i gotta point out that 25 degree difference was probably helped by the higher elevation of that cooler neighborhood
They could immediately begin mitigating the effects of heat islands by digging out half of the parking lots in the cities and suburbs. A lot of cities and suburbs have massive acreages of paved parking lots around suburban office buildings and malls. Considering how malls were dying even before the pandemic, and how the pandemic showed how people could work from home, there isn't much need for tons of office space, and most of the parking lots around these office buildings are rarely fully occupied in the first place. They could easily dig out half of the pavement in these office and mall parking lots and still provide enough parking for workers and shoppers while reopening land for green space.
Seattle provides 4 free street trees per household. Since 2009 12,500 have been planted.
For thr love of God please stop using that stupid term LatinX. It's Latin/Latino/Latina no need to change everything damn thing. Thank you much💚
You're pretty. The hair thing doesn't wrk on you, sorry. Just keep it natural, you're more beautiful without trying to be "in"
Latinx is offensive bc it’s a made up term that Hispanics dislike
PBS should visit Boston Medical Center which has a roof top garden devoted to growing vegetables. The produce ends up in the hospital based food bank and some produce in to the cafeteria, essentially a win-win situation.
wtf is up with her hair