Residents, policymakers need to think beyond air conditioning as the predominant solution to the risks as climate change fuels heat waves.
Of 619 deaths linked to the heat, 98 per cent happened indoors, the review from the coroners’ service shows.But one year on, experts caution that residents and policymakers need to think beyond air conditioning as the predominant solution to the risks as climate change fuels heat waves that scientists say are becoming hotter and more frequent.
An ambulance, lights flashing, at work during the extreme hot weather in Vancouver in late June of 2021.Two-thirds of those who died during the extreme heat last summer were 70 or older, more than half lived alone and many were living with chronic diseases. “In the peak of the heat, a huge chunk of the cooling demand is coming from solar energy being received on the exterior of the building. Let’s reflect that away.”
“That could be income, it could be the nature of their housing and the neighbourhood they live in that have inadequate tree canopy. All of those factors come together and we have to work on many of them simultaneously.
“We have complex problems, and if we only look at one isolated component, we don’t maximize benefit from solving these problems in an integrated manner,” Boston said. Continuing on that path would make it difficult for governments to achieve greenhouse gas reduction targets to mitigate climate change, Rysanek said.Article content
Companies all over the world have been deploying these cooling alternatives in Europe, in Asia and elsewhere, and “we should try to invite them here so that we learn about these things, as a public, as consumers,” he said.Article content
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