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Environment@beehaw.orgEnglish · 3 months ago

Should heat waves get names like hurricanes? Some believe it could help save lives

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Should heat waves get names like hurricanes? Some believe it could help save lives

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Environment@beehaw.orgEnglish · 3 months ago

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As heat waves and heat domes become more intense, the idea of naming extreme heat as we do with other major disasters is gaining traction with some experts.

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Beginning retroactively with the 2021 heat wave that killed 1400 people in the Pacific Northwest:

The Shell Oil Heat Dome

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Western_North_America_heat_wave

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Arctic_drilling_protests

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