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Kale Williams: With a heat dome poised to shatter Oregon records, what role does climate change play? (The Oregonian)
Kale Williams: With a heat dome poised to shatter Oregon records, what role does climate change play? (The Oregonian)
"Climate change isn't your grandchildren's problem, it’s yours.” --- “There are wide disparities in who is being exposed to the heat,” she said. “For the privileged, it’s an inconvenience. Other individuals don’t have a choice.” Among those most affected are those who have no readily available shelter, people experiencing homelessness and people who work in agriculture or construction. […] Researchers at Portland State University found that areas historically subject to racist housing discrimination policies such as red-lining are home to “urban heat islands” where temperatures can sometimes be as much as 13 degrees hotter than other parts of the city. These areas have historically been denied investments in greenspace and tree cover that act as cooling mechanisms in more affluent parts of Portland.
·oregonlive.com·
Kale Williams: With a heat dome poised to shatter Oregon records, what role does climate change play? (The Oregonian)
Rob Delaney: After Sandy
Rob Delaney: After Sandy
Wherein Rob Delaney makes the case for universal health care better than the Obama campaign. I am of the opinion, as a dad, a husband (of a woman with reproductive organs), a tax payer, a voter and an American living inside a human body, that improving the mechanisms for delivering health care in this nation is as high a priority as we will ever have. Why? When you unshackle good, hard-working, kind, enterprising Americans from the fear that health care costs could bankrupt them, you will unleash an intellectual and economic force that will knock your socks right off your feet, whether you bought them at Brooks Brothers or Goodwill.
·robdelaney.tumblr.com·
Rob Delaney: After Sandy