cities, many in the East and Midwest, where people often don’t have air conditioning or are not acclimated to hot weather. It found more than 1,100 deaths a year from climate change-caused heat in some 200 U.S. heat deaths each year can be attributed to human-caused global warming. “The world is changing rapidly and I fear we are not acting fast enough to teach people how harmful rising temperatures can be."Ī 2021 study estimated more than a third of U.S. “Phoenix really is the model for what we’ll be seeing in other places,” said researcher Jennifer Ailshire, a native of the desert city now at the University of Southern California's Leonard Davis School of Gerontology where she studies how environmental factors affect health and aging. Temperatures this year were already hitting the high 90s the first week of April. Such fatalities are so common that Arizona’s largest county keeps a weekly online tally during the six-month hot season from May through October. Situated in the Sonoran Desert, Phoenix and its suburbs are ground zero for heat-associated deaths in the U.S.
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