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written by Alexis McCarthy How does climate change affect heat waves?

• extreme heat begins earlier and lasts longer

• heat waves are longer stronger and more frequent

• more people exposed to dangerous heat

• boomers experienced 4 heat waves in their lives

• current generations will experience 18 in their lives

How do these heat waves affect us?

• directly impact our health, especially the most vulnerable

• increases the use of air conditioning which
  

  • increases chances of black outs

  • increases warming, if fueled by fossil fuels

  • maladaptation: increasing the gap between the ac haves and have nots

• increases risk of large wildfires which increases air pollution, along with other hazards that come with fires

• reduces crop production

• exacerbates drought risk and increases risk of water shortages

• increases the risk of violence

(Thank you, Texas based climate scientist Katherine Hayhoe for the work, the supporting research and the need to communicate this widely. For her thread click here.) https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-heat-waves https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16970-7 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abi7339 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-is-heat-dome-extreme-temperatures-pacific-northwest/ https://health2016.globalchange.gov/temperature-related-death-and-illness https://t.co/Nr9NyLDC89 https://t.co/MWS7RaadmG https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1701762114 https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/12877/climate-stabilization-targets-emissions-concentrations-and-impacts-over-decades-to https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FYDPHR_WQAEd1Wg?format=jpg&name=large https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1422945112 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969718324446 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/relationship-between-daily-suicide-counts-and-temperature-in-england-and-wales/C74E68D2E180CEADAB7101219DCCB86F https://t.co/9LBuSC6a36 read-listen-feel learn-understand engage-communicate-act change is difficult and worth it the time is now

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AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY SDG 7

• Old to new, oil to geothermal

• Data centers of the future

INDUSTRY INNOVATION & INFRASTRUCTURE SDG 8, 9 & 11

• Thinking of switching to an EV (electric vehicle)

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• EV advantages over conventional emission cars

• Sand batteries in Finland

• Philadelphia suburban municipalities go EV

• Clean energy virtual power plant

RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION & PRODUCTION SDG 12

• Not so cold freezers

• Supply chains key to sustainable fashion

• 9%

EQUITYSDG 5&10

• 132 Years to close the gap

• The intersection of climate and gender equality

• Indexing gender diversity

• Share ownership becoming more concentrated

• Road to healing tour- indian boarding school initiative
  

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• Indian boarding school in Philadelphia- who knew?

CLIMATE ACTION SDG 13, 14 &15

• Global sea levels up 4 inches since 1993

• Earth observation for climate landscape

• Sticky mussels, new adhesive

MEDIA

• Rebel Speak-Bryonn Rolly Bain

• The XX Edge-Patience Marime-Ball and Ruth Shaber

• Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness- Simone Browne

• Nowhere Left To Go- Benjamin Von Brackel

• Aftershock-Tonya Lewis Lee,Paula Eiselt

INNOVATORS

• Ray Anderson

• Janine Benyus

• Danya Baumeister

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July 25 would have been my mother's 92nd birthday. She passed away at the end of May. Losing one's mother is a defining moment. For me, it means making the rest of my days joyful, deliberate and meaningful. It means, as a mother and a human, living an intentional. kind, clean, thoughtful life of persistence. It means maintaining the hope of a more just, healthier planet in the future. It means not letting the naysayers and doubters bring me down. It means less stuff and more spending time sharing stories and community. Not always easy, always worth it.

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