{"id":820,"date":"2019-10-10T11:16:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T18:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/?p=820"},"modified":"2019-10-10T11:52:32","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T18:52:32","slug":"becoming-arizona-learning-how-to-live-with-extreme-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/?p=820","title":{"rendered":"Becoming Arizona: learning how to live with extreme heat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Content by Kat Kerlin, UC Davis, on October 3rd, 2019 (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucdavis.edu\/news\/becoming-arizona-lessons-phoenix-sacramento\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"original post (opens in a new tab)\">original post<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>I call it Hot Land. It\u2019s really like living in an oven for part of the year. We are in a place where air conditioning is not a luxury \u2014 it\u2019s literally a matter of life and death.<\/p><cite>Stacey Champion, Phoenix resident and community health advocate <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.ucdavis.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/panopoly_image_full\/public\/images\/article\/gettyimages-518395032_copy.jpg?itok=c-QqFVQd\" alt=\"Phoenix, Arizona skyline. \"\/><figcaption>The Phoenix, Arizona, skyline. (Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Phoenix, Arizona, hasn\u2019t cracked the code of how to live with extreme  heat. Heat-related deaths across Arizona tripled between 2014 and 2017,  from 76 deaths to 235. Most of those deaths were in Phoenix. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the city has become a testing ground for living with extreme \nheat. How Phoenix handles heat holds lessons for other warming cities \nlike Sacramento, where both temperatures and populations are \nincreasing.&nbsp; Sacramento is projected to feel much like Arizona by 2100. \nWhat can it be doing now to prepare?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full story at \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/climatechange.ucdavis.edu\/news\/becoming-arizona-lessons-from-phoenix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Lessons from Phoenix (opens in a new tab)\">Lessons from Phoenix<\/a>,\u201d the second part in UC Davis&#8217; climate change series \u201cBecoming Arizona.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Content by Kat Kerlin, UC Davis, on October 3rd, 2019 (see original post) I call it Hot Land. It\u2019s really like living in an oven for part of the year. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[8,18,20,25,27,24,15,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}