Climate report highlights B.C. communities most likely to face extreme heat

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A new report is highlighting the Canadian communities most likely to experience extreme and potentially lethal heat as the impacts of climate change are increasingly felt over the coming decades, including several in British Columbia.

But the authors stress that there are ways homeowners, tenants, landlords and developers can help avoid the worst consequences of that heat, something they hope will serve to alleviate the sense of helplessness felt by many in the face of the global crisis.

The report focuses on three regions projected to be exposed to the most extreme heat between the years 2051 and 2080, based in part on the maximum temperatures and average length of heat waves already on record. The other two regions are in the southern parts of the prairies bordering the U.S., and north of Lake Erie through the St. Lawrence River Valley in Ontario and Quebec – an area that includes Toronto, Montreal and several other major urban centres.While people living in some of those communities could be used to hotter summers, and prepared with air conditioners, the authors cautioned against relying too heavily on electronics.

"We might have people stuck in buildings who can't use elevators, who haven't got water because the water pumps … aren't working," Eyquem said, adding that backup power, cooling rooms and other measures could make all the difference in an emergency.

 

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That would not be weather manipulation by HAARP, right ? Asking for frenz in BC

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