Pregnant people now a focus of climate change science
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on March 19, 2022
Last June, over a period of three days, a heat wave baked the Pacific Northwest. Temperatures soared to 117 degrees (47 C) in a region where many homes don’t have air conditioners.
While final estimates of heat wave-related fatalities are still being determined, Kristie Ebi, a professor with the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the University of Washington, said approximately 1,000 people are believed to have died from the extreme temperatures. “If anything else happened that in a few days killed 1,000 people, we’d call it a mass casualty . . .
