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Displaying 4 of about 4 results… to fight climate change and social inequities, created a heat response program now called Cooling Portland . The program installs portable AC units or heat pumps for Portlanders whose income is less than 60% of … or have medical conditions that are more vulnerable to heat. [...] Stover said about 46% of the program’s …
… are vowing to do more to protect residents from extreme heat, one of the deadliest consequences of human-caused … change. City officials said they are launching the “ Heat Relief 4 L.A.” campaign to help spread the word about the dangers of extreme heat, which disproportionately affects low-income communities …
… is to characterize municipal interventions to extreme heat events (EHEs) and compare U.S. jurisdictions with and without formal heat action plans. Increasingly frequent and intense EHEs are … reported having a definition of excessive heat or heat wave compared to 30% in 2011, and 95.7% reported including …
… surface air temperatures and more frequent swings from heat to cold and back. This is one of the results of a study … are associated with temperature swings. "Extremes of heat and cold affect society in several ways, from thermal … "events" (consecutive days of an extreme, characterizing a wave). No changes in patterns of temperature extremes were …