https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/930495
News Release 4-Oct-2021
The team from UC Santa Barbara and Columbia University found that exposure to dangerous temperatures has doubled since the mid 1980s
Reports and Proceedings
University of California - Santa Barbara
Between global warming and the urban heat island effect, many of the world’s cities are heating up. In fact, extreme heat already affects almost two billion urban residents worldwide, according to a new study led by former UC Santa Barbara graduate student Cascade Tuholske.
The paper, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first to examine in fine detail global trends in extreme heat exposure across urban areas. The study spanned more than 13,000 settlements over nearly three and a half decades. The authors found that exposure to dangerous temperatures increased by 200% since the mid 1980s, with poor and marginalized people particularly at risk.
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