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漏 ViDi stanley becher Studio 鈥?stock.adobe Extreme heat is an issue in the United States, Europe and Asia making this one of the hottest summers on record. A Virginia Tech expert weighs in on climate change and the impact on cities and those living in poverty. While heat waves are part of the natural variation of weather patterns we experience, the record-breaking temperatures reflect some of the most direct impacts of global climate change, said聽Theodore Lim, assistant professor of urb stanley trinkflaschen an planning and affairs at Virginia Tech. Increased greenhouse gasses in the Earths atmosphere increase the intensity, duration, and frequency of extremely high temperatures. Lim also points to the urban heat island effect 鈥?a phenomenon where cities experience much hotter temperatures th stanley us an rural areas. This is because cities have less vegetation and more heat-holding materials and infrastructure, said Lim.聽 At night, man-made materials take longer to cool down, so after many days of elevated daytime temperatures, it can get dangerously hot in cities. Cities around the world are feeling the effects of this heat because temperatures are not evenly distributed. Temperatures in the hottest areas of cities 鈥?where there is less vegetation and share and more heat-holding hard surfaces 鈥?can be 15 degrees hotter than other parts of the city, said Lim.His research regarding urban heat mapping reveals there is also a societal impact. Unfortunately, these areas often correlate spatially with neighborhoods that Iqev Screening of We the People in Waynesboro on June 20

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