How Cities Like Phoenix Are Updating Infrastructure To Combat Extreme Weather

Climate change is a big factor for Phoenix’s rising temperatures in addition to the city’s population growth and development. NBC News’ Joshua Johnson is joined by Peter Kalmus, a climate scientist at UCLA’s Joint Center for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering to discuss how some cities are taking steps to update their infrastructure. 

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[micahclark]

By moving out of the desert sounds like a good plan

[LeTrashPanda]

I lived there for several years to the point of heat intolerance a few decades ago. There is ZERO SHADE for parked cars, no underground or covered parking anywhere so you suffer greatly even with AC. Nothing is designed for cooling or shade as far as business & shopping. How snowbirds can handle this (?) who knows since they are a major part of the economy along with tourism.... but the locals are the ones who really suffer. PS never travel anywhere without a gallon + of water, especially in the summer!

[jakeherter]

I've lived in Phoenix my entire life and have not spent a single moment in a home like that

[alostbard]

If you want to live in a desert, then live like you are in a desert, or don't live there.

[MsHashy]

Lol so new people not adapted to Arizona's temperatures are getting heat stroke.

[OperaGuy]

I notice that you are not covering the Canadian trucker vaccine mandate protest. Does that not fit the script that you have been given?

[artisaprimus]

I've visited Phoenix many times for business. I manage the extreme heat by not living there. In retired now so it's unlikely I'll be visiting either. OMG, it's blazing hot most of the time.

[yonayehezkel]

Whom Can We Trust If No One Is Trustworthy?
One of my favorite quips from Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is when Tom is defined as “a glittering hero…the pet of the old, the envy of the young, ” and there were “some that believed that he would be President, yet, if he escaped hanging.” With these few words, Twain captured the essence of leadership in our world. Those who get to the top are the fiercest, most determined, and most ruthless. Today, the latter quality has become so intense that we can no longer believe our leaders, and certainly not trust them to have our best interest in mind.
I am not accusing any leader in particular, or even leaders as a whole. It is simply that in an egoistic world, where people vie to topple one another on their way to the top, the one at the top is clearly the one who trampled over and knocked down more people than anyone else. Concisely, to get to the top in an egoistic world you have to be the biggest egoist.
So how do we know whom to trust? We don’t know and we cannot know. All we know is that we are in the dark.
In a culture of unhinged selfishness, any conspiracy theory seems reasonable, while truth is nowhere to be found. When every person who says or writes something is trying to promote some hidden agenda, you have no way of knowing who is right, what really happened, or if anything happened at all.
The only way to get some clarity in the news and goodwill from our leaders is to say “Enough!” to our current system and build something entirely independent. The guiding principle of such a system should be “information only, ” no commentary. Commentary means that information has already been skewed. Information means saying only what happened, as much as possible, not why, and not who is to blame and who we should praise.
Concurrently, we must begin a comprehensive process of self-teaching. We have to know not only what is happening, but why we skew and distort everything. In other words, we have to know about human nature and how it inherently presents matters according to its own subjective view, which caters to one’s own interest. To “clear” ourselves from that deformity, we must learn how to rise above our personal interest and develop an equally favorable attitude toward others. This is our only guarantee that our interpretation of things will be even and correct.
Once we achieve such an attitude, we will discover that the bad things we see in our world reflect our own, internal wickedness. Our ill-will toward others creates a world where ill-will governs, and so the world is filled with wickedness and cruelty. Therefore, all we need in order to create positive leadership—and to generally eliminate ill-will from the world—is to generate goodwill within us. When we nurture goodwill toward others, we will fill the world with goodwill. As a result, the world will fill with kindness and compassion. By changing ourselves, we will create a world that is opposite from the world we have created through our desires to govern, patronize, and often destroy other people.

[tenzinnordron]

Amazing to have an actual description of “man made” heat impacts!

[cattigereyes]

It’s called tax money! Wtf! This should be the expectation of tax paying groups! Wake up!

[dafish-yeig]

It's a desert, it's hot. If you can't handle it leave.

[samboggs]

It's the concrete and excessive automobile traffic.

[islamicvideos]

*Prophet Muhammad Quote About Education
“Kindness is a mark of faith, and whoever has not kindness has not faith.*

[pohakumana]

Desert living is not sustainable unless you're a Native or a lizard. IT SUCKS, the tide has been out for a gazillion years! I was stuck in Tucson for a few years so I KNOW, 114 degrees is an oven.

[miguelpaul]

Maybe there shouldn't be a gigantic city in the middle of a desert.... Keep watering the golf courses!!!

[arcticdragon]

A lot more heat deaths every year in AZ than 500

[riskyron]

I lived in Phoenix most my life. A great uncle was two term Governor of Arizona and one term US Senator losing to Barry Goldwater in 1952. Anyway I retired to Central America (no not Kansas, the other Central America) I currently live in a 7 bedroom/5 bath house with 4 caR GARAGE ON 23 ACRES IN COSTA RICA. fOR WHICH MY RENT IS $159.12 A MONTH! It has never been colder than 54F, never hotter than 87. Living on a budget of $800 to $1000 a month I live very well with my wife ands have enough left over to travel Internationally 3 months a year.
Damned Covid preventing a 6 month trip to Europe for the last 2 years. We don't use any fossil fuel for electricity. No Army and no wars since 1948 and the savings is used for health care and education. Life in Retirement as it should be.

[Hotlooksamerica]

People died all the time when I lived in Tucson.

[mswarrior]

Phoenix and the surrounding area or valley as is called never had any green

[Stewz]

Human consciousness cant process .2 degrees F every 5 years being a existential problem. IT IS AN existential problem according to the science, but lay people just cant "get there". So we are all frogs in the pot. It is so sad.