{"id":27750,"date":"2023-05-26T15:37:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T19:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=27750"},"modified":"2023-05-26T15:53:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T19:53:10","slug":"half-of-phoenix-arizona-would-end-up-in-the-er-if-the-city-has-a-blackout-during-a-heat-wave-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=27750","title":{"rendered":"Half of Phoenix, Arizona, would end up in the ER if the city has a blackout during a heat wave, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1bAAka.img?h=630&amp;w=1200&amp;m=6&amp;q=60&amp;o=t&amp;l=f&amp;f=jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"122\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">The study&#8217;s lead author says a blackout in Phoenix could kill 13,000 people, calling it the &#8220;greatest climate-related hazard we can imagine.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/half-phoenix-arizona-er-city-blackout-heat-wave-study-2023-5\">Half of Phoenix, Arizona, would end up in the ER if the city has a blackout during a heat wave, study finds<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>recall the 1st few chapters of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=27692\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"27692\" target=\"_blank\">Ministry for the Future<\/a>&#8230; ~25m die in heatwave in India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acs.est.2c09588\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> is a easy read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>one of the recomenedations: &#8220;Our results highlight the need for enhanced electrical grid resilience and support a more spatially expansive use of tree canopy and <strong><em>high albedo roofing materials to lessen heat exposures<\/em><\/strong> during compound climate and infrastructure failure events.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>which makes me wonder again why roof coverings are always black or dark?  likely cheapest if tar-based shingles, so obvisou.  but what are cost savings of a white metal roof or orther material ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The study&#8217;s lead author says a blackout in Phoenix could kill 13,000&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[319,1588,543,30,140,21],"class_list":["post-27750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-agw","tag-arizona","tag-electricity","tag-environment","tag-paul","tag-uh-oh","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27750"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27755,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27750\/revisions\/27755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}