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As #globalwarming accelerates, about 480M people in North #Africa and Arabian Peninsula face intensifying and in some places unsurvivable heat, as well as #drought, #famine, and risk of mass displacement
#WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo said #extremeheat is pushing communities in region to their physical limits. Droughts show no sign of letting up in one of world’s most water-stressed regions, but at same time, parts have been devastated by record rains and flooding.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/12/new-report-warns-of-critical-climate-risks-in-arab-region/

How the climate crisis showed up in Americans’ lives this year: ‘The shift has been swift and stark’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/31/climate-crisis-guardian-readers #UsNews #ClimateCrisis #Biodiversity #Environment #ExtremeHeat #HurricaneHelene #Hurricanes #ExtremeWeather #California #EndangeredSpecies #EndangeredHabitats #Conservation #Wildlife #Animals #WestCoast

‘When you plant something, it dies’: Brazil’s first arid zone is a stark warning for the whole country https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/28/brazil-first-arid-zone-stark-warning-for-country #ClimateCrisis #Drought #Desertification #ExtremeHeat #Water #Brazil #Environment #GreenhouseGasEmissions #WorldNews

The 2024 Hajj heatwave hit 51.8 °C, killing 1,300+ people. New research shows such extremes are becoming the new normal with climate change—and could happen annually later this century. Adaptation is now lifesaving.
#ClimateChange #ExtremeHeat #Hajj https://www.nature.com/articles/s44304-025-00159-3

‘Massive disruption’: UK’s worst-case climate crisis scenarios revealed by scientists https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/18/massive-disruption-uk-worst-case-climate-crisis-risks #Extremeweather #Climatecrisis #Extremeheat #Environment #Flooding #Drought #UKnews

Keep cool #Adelaide, a really nasty-hot day out there just beginning, put a shallow dish of water out in the shade for the animals if you can 👍 🦆 🪺 🦜

#Weather #ExtremeHeat

Met Office: 2026 will bring heat more than 1.4C above preindustrial levels https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/18/met-office-2026-will-bring-heat-more-than-14c-above-preindustrial-levels #Climatecrisis #Extremeheat #Environment #UKweather #MetOffice #Pollution #LaNiña

🔥 Do heat adaptation strategies really work?

A study of 1.1 billion devices across 366 Chinese cities shows cooling centres matter - but impacts vary by heat, wealth & age.

🔗Read & listen: https://www.worldpop.org/blog/when-heatwaves-strike-do-city-adaptation-measures-really-help/

#ClimateChange #ExtremeHeat #Cities #Adaptation @TheConversationClimate

Nice coverage of last month’s National League of Cities panel on adaption to climate change. It was a privilege to share our experience along with Salt Lake City mayor Erin Mendenhall, Moab UT mayor Joette Langianese, and Portland, OR, councilor Candace Avalos.

One nit: I view our namesake oaks as an asset, not a liability! We face far bigger fire risk from non-native stuff such as fan palms and arundo grasses.

#extremeheat #climatechange #adaptability #sustainabilty #thousandoaks #resilience #tocc

https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/climate-change-cities-sustainability-nlc/807562/

UC Irvine: UC Irvine-led study uses social media for real-time monitoring of heat experiences in state. “A study led by health communications experts at the University of California, Irvine has yielded a new way to monitor heat equity in real time, facilitating the design of heat warning systems and targeted mitigation efforts in California’s most vulnerable communities.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/06/uc-irvine-uc-irvine-led-study-uses-social-media-for-real-time-monitoring-of-heat-experiences-in-state/

New report warns of critical climate risks in Arab region https://arstechni.ca/59nQ #arabianpeninsula #climatechange #extremeheat #syndication #heatindex #Science

What I saw reporting on the American lives cut short by killer heat https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/04/inside-americas-hidden-climate-deaths #Trumpadministration #Climatecrisis #Environment #Extremeheat #Fuelpoverty #USpolitics

☝🏻may be a follow-up to major Sim & ABC Party's Nov 2024 attempt to reverse 2016 bylaw which "gradually phases out natural gas for space and water heating in most new building types by 2025".

""Natural" gas in this way is the single largest source of carbon pollution in the city"

Vancouver citizens protested. The motion, in the end, was defeated.

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#Vancouver #extremeheat #BCheatdome #VanPoli #BChealth

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-councillors-vote-to-keep-natural-gas-heating-ban-1.7395652

Another *last minute amendment* to controversial #Vancouver 2026 Budget.

Mayor Sim, ABC Party majority, and allies have cut $8.2 million from Vancouver's existing retrofit program to make rental buildings less polluting and safer during climate disasters (cooling during #extremeheat)

"The climate crisis is making extreme heat more common, inflicting a deadly toll: the 2021 heat dome alone was responsible for 117 deaths in the city. Buildings are also responsible for about 60% of Vancouver's greenhouse gas emissions, largely because of gas heating." (600+ deaths in B.C. during #BCheatdome)

UBC professor:

"The word 'retrofit' is insufficient to explain the programs Vancouver's ABC part is cutting. It kind of makes it sound like this is a luxury, but cooling and living in a safe home is a human right."

Stand.Earth found, through FOI, trove of emails suggesting "provincial gas utility has had the retrofit program in its crosshairs since at least last year"

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#VanPoli #BChealth

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/04/news/vancouver-housing-retrofit-cuts

#ExtremeHeat

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