{"id":264999,"date":"2024-11-21T02:22:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T02:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/21\/extreme-heat-is-now-making-cities-unlivable-how-can-we-survive-it\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:10:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:10:25","slug":"extreme-heat-is-now-making-cities-unlivable-how-can-we-survive-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/21\/extreme-heat-is-now-making-cities-unlivable-how-can-we-survive-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme heat is now making cities unlivable. How can we survive it?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Humidity makes Shanghai\u2019s heat more unbearable<\/p>\n

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\u201cMy office felt like a steamer on Monday morning,\u201d wrote Chinese influencer Bi Dao in a social media post in August. He fetched a drink from a supposed cold-water dispenser \u2013 it was 40.8\u00b0C (105\u00b0F). Bi, who lives in Hangzhou, a regional capital on China\u2019s east coast, decided to roam the city with a temperature gun, pointing it at things to find out exactly how hot they had got. \u201cThe ground was 72.6\u00b0C, the seat of a sharing bike was 56.5\u00b0C, the handrail in the metro station was 45\u00b0C, even the tree bark was 38.7\u00b0C,\u201d he wrote. He ended his post by thanking Willis Carrier for inventing the air conditioner.<\/p>\n

Hangzhou is known for its beautiful lake, large pagoda and rolling green tea farms \u2013 not for heat. But what Bi witnessed was only one of the 60 \u201chigh-temperature days\u201d \u2013 ones that topped 35\u00b0C (95\u00b0F) \u2013 that grilled the city and its 12.5 million inhabitants this year. Hangzhou isn\u2019t alone. Many cities worldwide are feeling the heat. Things are getting so bad that growing numbers of people face temperatures that are beyond human endurance<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Already, such conditions kill around half a million each year<\/a>. That will inevitably rise as climate change increases the number and intensity of heatwaves around the globe. Cities are on the front line of this unfolding crisis. And China\u2019s vast, densely packed megacities are leading the way. As well as providing a glimpse of what we are in\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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