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Karen McKinnon receives NSF CAREER Award for heat extremes research

The World Health Organization has identified heat waves — on the rise worldwide — as one of the most dangerous natural hazards.

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and across southern europe. the climate of southern europe is changing, say local people. it's becoming more and more like north africa. the sahara desert is slowly creeping into europe. the weather is being turbo—charged by climate change, say scientists. humans are 100% to blame for the global trend in high temperatures that we are seeing. so all of the observed global warming is because of our burning of fossil fuels. and it's notjust hot in europe. china is reckoned to have recorded its highest temperature ever yesterday — 52.2 degrees celsius. and tens of millions of people are under extreme heat warnings in the us, too. earlier i spoke to karen mckinnon, assistant professor at the ucla institue of environment and sustainability.

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heat if you can avoid it, and using things like air—conditioning or other lifestyle modifications to reduce the impact of heat your body. reduce the impact of heat your bod . , . ~ reduce the impact of heat your bod . , . ,, ., , reduce the impact of heat your bod. , ,., body. very quick last question, what ou body. very quick last question, what you think _ body. very quick last question, what you think policymakers i what you think policymakers should be doing in some of these really hot places right now? ., ,., , ., now? yeah, so in terms of the local level. — now? yeah, so in terms of the local level. i — now? yeah, so in terms of the local level, i think— now? yeah, so in terms of the local level, i think the - local level, i think the biggest thing is to encourage those adaptation and making sure that people have access to cooling centres, have access to water, are aware of the dangers of the heat. and then kind of looking longer term, in addition to those mitigation things i talked about before, reducing and removing c02 from the atmosphere, we really can i think itjust our cities and make changes to the ways that we live, in order to allow us to adapt to extreme heat, because we are going to have it for probably a little while, regardless of how well we reduce and remove c02, so at this moment we need to adapt to that heat as well. karen mckinnon, very

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UCLA in the News June 23, 2023

UCLA in the News June 23, 2023
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