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Indeed, if short periods were suitable for drawing strong conclusions, climate scientists should perhaps now be talking about a “surge” in global warming since 2011, as shown in this figure:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"align-center zoomable\">\u003ca href=\"https://images.theconversation.com/files/251492/original/file-20181219-45408-dnodgo.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=1000&fit=clip\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://images.theconversation.com/files/251492/original/file-20181219-45408-dnodgo.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=754&fit=clip\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption>\u003cspan class=\"caption\">Global temperature observations compared to climate models. Climate-disrupting volcanoes are shown at the bottom, and the purported hiatus period is shaded. 2018 values based on year to date (YTD).\u003c/span>\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan class=\"attribution\">\u003cspan class=\"source\">NASA; Berkeley Earth; various climate models.\u003c/span>, \u003cspan class=\"license\">Author provided\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The “pause” or “hiatus” in warming of the early 21st century is not just a talking point of think-tanks with radical political agendas. It also features in the scientific literature, including in the most recent report of the \u003ca href=\"https://theconversation.com/ipcc-1-5-report-heres-what-the-climate-science-says-104592\">Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change\u003c/a> and more than 200 peer-reviewed articles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research we recently published in \u003ca href=\"http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aaf342\">Environmental Research Letters\u003c/a> addresses two questions about the putative “pause”: first, is there compelling evidence in the temperature data alone of something unusual happening at the start of the 21st century? \u003ca href=\"http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aaf372\">Second\u003c/a>, did the rise in temperature lag behind projections by climate models?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In both cases the answer is “no,” but the reasons are interesting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reconstructing a historical temperature record from instruments designed for other purposes, such as weather forecasting, is not always easy. Several problems have affected temperature estimates for the period since 2000. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/exposed-the-myth-of-the-global-warming-pause-8945607.html\">first of these\u003c/a> was the fact that uneven geographical distribution of weather stations can influence the apparent rate of warming. Other factors include \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/06/150604162501.htm\">changes in the instruments\u003c/a> used to measure \u003ca href=\"https://news.berkeley.edu/2017/01/04/global-warming-hiatus-disproved-again/\">ocean temperatures\u003c/a>. Most of these factors were known at the time and reported in the scientific literature, but because the magnitudes of the effects were unknown, users of temperature data (from science journalists to IPCC authors) were in a bind when interpreting their results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A more subtle problem arises when we ask whether a fluctuation in the rate of warming is a new phenomena, rather than the kind of variation we expect due to natural fluctuations of the climate system. Different statistical tests are needed to determine whether a phenomena is interesting depending on how the data are chosen. In a nutshell, if you select data based on them being unusual in the first place, then any statistical tests that seemingly confirm their unusual nature give the wrong answer. 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Neither is the deviation between the observations and climate model projections larger than would be expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not to say that such “wiggles” in the temperature record are uninteresting – several of our team are involved in further studies of these fluctuations, and the study of the “pause” has yielded interesting new insights into the climate system – for example, the role of changes in the \u003ca href=\"https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2014GL059233\">Atlantic\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate2310\">Pacific\u003c/a> oceans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are lessons here for the media, for the public, and for scientists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For scientists, there are two lessons: first, when you get to know a dataset by using it repeatedly in your work, make sure you also still remember the limitations you read about when first downloading it. Second, remember that your statistical choices are always part of a cascade of decisions, and at least occasionally those decisions must be revisited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the public and the media, the lesson is to check claims about the data. In particular, when claims are made based on \u003ca href=\"https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2017/06/truth-global-warming-pause/\">short periods or specific datasets\u003c/a>, they are \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378016300577?via%3Dihub\">often designed to mislead\u003c/a>. If someone claims the world hasn’t warmed since 1998 or 2016, ask them why those specific years – why not 1997 or 2014? Why have such short limits at all? And also check how reliable similar claims have been in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The technique of misinformation is nicely described in a quote attributed to climate researcher \u003ca href=\"http://rabett.blogspot.com/2018/06/tobis-rule.html\">Michael Tobis\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If a large data set speaks convincingly against you, find a smaller and noisier one that you can huffily cite.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Global warming didn’t stop in 1998. Don’t be fooled by claims that it stopped in 2016 either. There is only one thing that will stop global warming: cuts to greenhouse gas emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- Below is The Conversation's page counter tag. 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The \u003ca href=\"https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/exposed-the-myth-of-the-global-warming-pause-8945607.html\">first of these\u003c/a> was the fact that uneven geographical distribution of weather stations can influence the apparent rate of warming. Other factors include \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/06/150604162501.htm\">changes in the instruments\u003c/a> used to measure \u003ca href=\"https://news.berkeley.edu/2017/01/04/global-warming-hiatus-disproved-again/\">ocean temperatures\u003c/a>. Most of these factors were known at the time and reported in the scientific literature, but because the magnitudes of the effects were unknown, users of temperature data (from science journalists to IPCC authors) were in a bind when interpreting their results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A more subtle problem arises when we ask whether a fluctuation in the rate of warming is a new phenomena, rather than the kind of variation we expect due to natural fluctuations of the climate system. Different statistical tests are needed to determine whether a phenomena is interesting depending on how the data are chosen. In a nutshell, if you select data based on them being unusual in the first place, then any statistical tests that seemingly confirm their unusual nature give the wrong answer. (The statistical issue here is similar to the fascinating but counterintuitive “\u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24045598\">Monty Hall problem\u003c/a>”, which has caught out many mathematicians).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the statistical test is applied correctly, the apparent slowdown in warming is no more significant than other fluctuations in the rate of warming over the past 40 years. In other words, there is no compelling evidence that the supposed “pause” period is different from other previous periods. Neither is the deviation between the observations and climate model projections larger than would be expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not to say that such “wiggles” in the temperature record are uninteresting – several of our team are involved in further studies of these fluctuations, and the study of the “pause” has yielded interesting new insights into the climate system – for example, the role of changes in the \u003ca href=\"https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2014GL059233\">Atlantic\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate2310\">Pacific\u003c/a> oceans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are lessons here for the media, for the public, and for scientists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For scientists, there are two lessons: first, when you get to know a dataset by using it repeatedly in your work, make sure you also still remember the limitations you read about when first downloading it. Second, remember that your statistical choices are always part of a cascade of decisions, and at least occasionally those decisions must be revisited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the public and the media, the lesson is to check claims about the data. In particular, when claims are made based on \u003ca href=\"https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2017/06/truth-global-warming-pause/\">short periods or specific datasets\u003c/a>, they are \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378016300577?via%3Dihub\">often designed to mislead\u003c/a>. If someone claims the world hasn’t warmed since 1998 or 2016, ask them why those specific years – why not 1997 or 2014? Why have such short limits at all? 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"content": "\u003cp>Steven Falk still remembers the moment he first laid eyes on Lafayette, California, even though it was 28 years ago. He was driving there to interview for a job as an assistant to the city manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘The house is on fire, and our children and grandchildren are trapped in the attic. So what are we going to do about it?’\u003ccite>Steven Falk, former Lafayette city manager\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I saw this amazing landscape of emerald-green hills and native oak woodland, with neighborhoods sitting in and among these verdant valleys,” he says. “I loved it from the very first minute I got here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 25,000 people of \u003ca href=\"https://www.lovelafayette.org/\">Lafayette\u003c/a> live close to nature, yet they can step onto a commuter train and be in downtown San Francisco in half an hour. “It seemed like I had reached some kind of paradise,” Falk says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The median home in Lafayette is worth over a million dollars. The people are educated and environmentally aware. They voted three-to-one for Hillary Clinton in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last 22 years, Steven Falk has been their city manager, more or less the CEO of local government, responsible for everything from police to potholes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in 2005, he read Elizabeth Kolbert’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/04/25/the-climate-of-man-i\">three-part series\u003c/a> of articles in the New Yorker about global warming. “They scared the daylights out of me,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He started noticing evidence of climate change himself. For instance, he remembers sliding down glaciers in the Sierra Nevada mountains as a nine-year-old kid, backpacking with his dad. “When I became a parent, I took my own kids to the mountains, and we did the same trip. And the glaciers are gone!” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The more he learned, the more it kept him up at night. “The analogy I’ve used is, the house is on fire, and our children and grandchildren are trapped in the attic. So what are we going to do about it?” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a city manager, there are, in fact, some things you can do. But they may be controversial. Steven Falk ended up in the middle of a battle over what gets built on some land right near the heart of his city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Falk takes me to a big parking lot, covering about five acres of land, right beside the Bay Area Rapid Transit station. This is where commuters take the trains to Oakland and San Francisco. This area is also close to shopping. One way to fight global warming: Build lots of housing right here, where people can live without driving cars and burning gasoline. 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"content": "\u003cp>Few places will feel the blight of climate change as hard as the Arctic. Our upper pole is warming faster than any other region on Earth, a trend that may be tied to erratic weather patterns across the northern hemisphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are two takeaways from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.noaa.gov/media-release/arctic-report-card-tracks-region-s-environmental-changes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2018 Arctic Report Card\u003c/a>, which was released Tuesday at the American Geophysical Union conference in Washington, D.C. The 13th year of this peer-reviewed report card features 14 essays by 81 scientists from 12 countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first time, the report card includes a warning about red tide and harmful algal blooms, which are expanding due to a lack of ice and warming ocean temperatures. Toxins from these micro-organisms are threatening marine wildlife and coastal fisheries, imperilling communities that depend on these species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year will also enter the record books as the second warmest for the Arctic since 1900, said Emily Osborne of the NOAA Arctic Research Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only warmer year occured in 2016,” Obsorne said, adding that Arctic air temperatures for the past five years have exceeded all records since the beginning of the 20th century. “The Arctic is experiencing the most unprecedented transition in history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are three things you need to know about the Arctic Report Card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Red tide\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you hear about harmful algal blooms, the mind typically wanders to Florida, where thick scums of blue-green algae and clouds of red tide have floated in the state’s warm waters for more than a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Due to a warming Arctic Ocean, at least five families of these harmful micro-organisms are now present in other northern waters, like the Chukchi and Bering seas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The vast majority of the Arctic ocean has experienced clear long- term trends of warming,” said Karen E. Frey, a geographer and biogeochemist at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Microscopic creatures are thriving in these waters. Near St. Lawrence Island, for instance, west of the Alaska mainland, aquatic biomass in 2018 increased between 275 and 500 percent relative to the average over the last 14 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These harmful algal blooms produce a range of toxins, which can poison other plankton, fish, shellfish, birds and humans. One study of stranded marine mammals — like whales and seals — found the algal toxin domoic acid in all species tested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mounting microplastics\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This explosion in tiny creatures has been paralleled by the rapid rise of microplastics in the Arctic Ocean. The Arctic Basin contains more microplastic than all other ocean basins in the world, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749117349400\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study\u003c/a> published in June and cited in the report card, with the highest concentrations stuck in the Beaufort Sea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These microplastics have made multiple intrusions into the food web, being found in everything from polar cod and seafloor-hugging invertebrates to Arctic birds. The plastic waste has also been found buried in sea ice, which scientists are using to study its abundance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The major sources of these microplastics remain unclear. They could be floating to the Arctic from other oceans, but some contribution is due to waste like fishing nets and other gear from shipping activities, which have \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate2244\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">increased substantially\u003c/a> since 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Despite growing food sources overall, caribou and wild reindeer are dying\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The greening of the Arctic continues to gradually grow. Vegetation has expanded overall in the Arctic for the last 36 years, according to the new report card. As shrubs and grasses expand, some species of birds and mammals are thriving. Caribou and wild reindeer, both herbivores, are not part of this lucky class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arctic caribou in North America and Greenland and reindeer in Russia and Norway have declined 56 percent over the last two decades, with their populations dropping from 4.7 million to 2.1 million. Why?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increased drought and longer spans of hotter weather are causing outbreaks of infectious bacteria and parasites, said Howard Epstein, an ecologist at the University of Virginia. The caribou and reindeer populations are also declining due to a boon in predators and because extreme weather events are occasionally triggering droughts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XntO9a-NpeM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wacky weather and the eviction of older ice\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Arctic pattern most pertinent to our daily lives, here in North America, revolves around warmth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warm air temperatures, which are increasing at twice the rate of the remaining world, continue to disrupt the polar jet stream, making it sluggish and unusually wavy. A surge of warm Arctic weather in 2017 coincided with severe winter storms in the eastern United States at the beginning of 2018 and a cold snap in Europe in March. Osborne said the jury is still out on the strength of the connection between Arctic warming and wacky weather in the mid-latitudes, but at the moment, the correlation is solid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This atmospheric warming also drove declines in Arctic snow cover and caused melting of the Greenland ice sheet. But the biggest loser, in terms of frozen water, is Arctic sea ice. Older packs of Arctic sea ice, which used to be impervious to the annual melting cycle, are thinner and covering less area than they have in the past. The oldest ice has declined by 95 percent in the last 33 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During two weeks in February, which is typically the height of ice growth, the Bering Sea lost a piece of ice the size of Idaho,” said Donald Perovich, a sea ice geophysicist at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. March witnessed the second lowest sea ice extent in 39 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perovich said this loss is being felt hardest by coastal communities, which used to be buffered by the sea ice. The loss is also exposing communities to massive storm surge and disappearing shorelines. It is also depriving coastal residents of a safe route for hunting and travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 2018, the effects of persistent Arctic warming continue to mount … pushing the Arctic into unchartered territory,” Obsorne added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Near St. Lawrence Island, for instance, west of the Alaska mainland, aquatic biomass in 2018 increased between 275 and 500 percent relative to the average over the last 14 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These harmful algal blooms produce a range of toxins, which can poison other plankton, fish, shellfish, birds and humans. One study of stranded marine mammals — like whales and seals — found the algal toxin domoic acid in all species tested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mounting microplastics\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This explosion in tiny creatures has been paralleled by the rapid rise of microplastics in the Arctic Ocean. 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They could be floating to the Arctic from other oceans, but some contribution is due to waste like fishing nets and other gear from shipping activities, which have \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate2244\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">increased substantially\u003c/a> since 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Despite growing food sources overall, caribou and wild reindeer are dying\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The greening of the Arctic continues to gradually grow. Vegetation has expanded overall in the Arctic for the last 36 years, according to the new report card. As shrubs and grasses expand, some species of birds and mammals are thriving. Caribou and wild reindeer, both herbivores, are not part of this lucky class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arctic caribou in North America and Greenland and reindeer in Russia and Norway have declined 56 percent over the last two decades, with their populations dropping from 4.7 million to 2.1 million. Why?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increased drought and longer spans of hotter weather are causing outbreaks of infectious bacteria and parasites, said Howard Epstein, an ecologist at the University of Virginia. 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A surge of warm Arctic weather in 2017 coincided with severe winter storms in the eastern United States at the beginning of 2018 and a cold snap in Europe in March. Osborne said the jury is still out on the strength of the connection between Arctic warming and wacky weather in the mid-latitudes, but at the moment, the correlation is solid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This atmospheric warming also drove declines in Arctic snow cover and caused melting of the Greenland ice sheet. But the biggest loser, in terms of frozen water, is Arctic sea ice. Older packs of Arctic sea ice, which used to be impervious to the annual melting cycle, are thinner and covering less area than they have in the past. The oldest ice has declined by 95 percent in the last 33 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During two weeks in February, which is typically the height of ice growth, the Bering Sea lost a piece of ice the size of Idaho,” said Donald Perovich, a sea ice geophysicist at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>s the Camp Fire swallowed Paradise, as many as 175 elderly patients in skilled nursing facilities lay in its path. Nimble care workers saved them from the flames, wrangling private cars and pleading with ambulance companies to speed safe evacuations.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">A deadly and growing threat to nursing home patients remains overlooked: extreme heat.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Extraordinary, heroic efforts protected patients in Paradise. But climate change – which intensifies wildfires and strengthens heat waves and hurricanes – now flings ever-worsening natural disasters at nursing homes in California and across the country. And in some of these cases, managers and staff are failing their patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017 alone, disasters such as Hurricane Harvey in Texas and the Tubbs Fire in Northern California offered a glimpse of this growing risk, said Deborah Pacyna, director of public affairs for the California Association of Health Facilities, a trade association that represents nursing homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a wake-up call, definitely,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the Gulf Coast, excessive heat sickened hundreds of nursing home patients who sheltered in place during hurricanes. In Texas, a group of citizens calling themselves the “Cajun Navy” \u003ca href=\"https://www.gq.com/story/cajun-navy-and-the-future-of-vigilante-disaster-relief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">broke into\u003c/a> a nursing home to rescue patients when waters had risen a foot indoors; local police handcuffed one facility manager who refused to permit residents to leave. In Hollywood Hills, Florida, a medical examiner ruled 12 deaths as homicides after a hurricane knocked out power, leaving patients to swelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Northern California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1934332/the-largest-deadliest-and-most-destructive-fires-in-california-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent wildfires\u003c/a> are a high-profile example of just how threatening climate-related catastrophes can be for some of these most vulnerable people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1935474\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/GettyImages-1059414734.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1935474\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/GettyImages-1059414734-800x525.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/GettyImages-1059414734-800x525.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/GettyImages-1059414734-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/GettyImages-1059414734-768x504.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/GettyImages-1059414734-1020x669.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/GettyImages-1059414734-1200x787.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/GettyImages-1059414734-1920x1259.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/GettyImages-1059414734-1180x774.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/GettyImages-1059414734-960x629.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/GettyImages-1059414734-240x157.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/GettyImages-1059414734-375x246.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/GettyImages-1059414734-520x341.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign is posted on the Paradise Skilled Nursing Center as it is consumed by flames from the Camp Fire on November 8, 2018. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But another deadly and growing threat to nursing home patients remains overlooked: extreme heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2000, heat killed two nursing home patients and sent six more to the hospital in Burlingame. Bill Lockyer, who was then the state Attorney General, \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-lockyer-announces-enforcement-action-against-largest-provider\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigated\u003c/a> the first-ever Justice Department prosecution of a national nursing home chain. Temperatures for the sick and dying patients rose, on average, above 106 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘People should not be dying in heat waves in a nursing home. It’s unconscionable, but not surprising.’\u003ccite>Pat McGinnis,\u003cbr>\nCalifornia Advocates for Nursing Home Reform\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In 2006, in Stockton, Woodland and Fremont, nursing home patients died when air conditioning failed \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2006/07/24/heat-shatters-records-blackouts-possible/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">during a massive heat wave\u003c/a>. Local police evacuated some facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A KQED \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1932903/extreme-heat-killed-14-people-in-the-bay-area-last-year-10-takeaways-from-our-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigation\u003c/a> found that last year, extreme heat caused the deaths of at least 14 elderly people, including one 95-year-old woman at St. Francis Convalescent Pavilion, a skilled nursing facility in San Mateo County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That patient, Loraine Christiansen, died from heat shock – and her story suggests that nursing home patients are at serious risk from health care facilities still adapting to climate-driven disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anatomy of an Extreme Heat Death\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span> little before 10 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 2, 2017, a San Mateo County emergency dispatcher picked up a call from a nurse at St. Francis Pavilion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just found a patient alert but nonverbally responsive,” the nurse said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The temperature had peaked at 101 degrees that day. It was still 85 when the nurse reported that the patient had turned pale, and had a temperature of 103.1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christiansen had just been moved to hospice care at St. Francis Pavilion. A widow and former secretary for a Methodist church, Christiansen had hypertension, diabetes and chronic renal disease – all conditions that worsen in heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio /> program=\"KQED Science\" title=\"St. Francis Pavilion 911 Call\" src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/science/2018/12/911Call.wav\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/RS7512_fire.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paramedics arrived at St. Francis Pavilion 13 minutes after the 911 call, according to transcripts from San Mateo County public safety communications obtained by KQED. By the time Christiansen arrived in the emergency department at Kaiser Permanente’s South San Francisco Medical Center, her temperature was 106 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the coroner’s report, emergency department doctors then simply sought to relieve her pain. Christiansen’s death certificate lists the cause as heat-related shock. In a report filed with the county, relied on by the coroner in determining the cause of death, one of the paramedics who had attended to Christiansen estimated the temperature in St. Francis Pavilion at 98 to 100 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not supposed to happen in homes licensed to provide care to fragile patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1935497\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/Coroner.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1935497\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/Coroner-800x456.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/Coroner-800x456.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/Coroner-160x91.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/Coroner-768x438.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/Coroner-240x137.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/Coroner-375x214.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/Coroner-520x296.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/Coroner.jpg 867w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Mateo County Coroner’s Report for Loraine Christiansen.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California law and federal regulations \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/42/483.10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">require\u003c/a> skilled nursing facilities licensed after 1990 to keep temperatures between 71 and 81 degrees. In older facilities, such as St. Francis Pavilion, the temperature simply has to be “comfortable and safe.” Violating these standards carries penalties up to $25,000 or more if the California Department of Public Health determines that the conditions led directly to a patient’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>St. Francis Pavilion’s administrator, Timothy Caslmon, did not respond to calls and emails between September and November. Calls to the main number for Generations Health, the facility’s Orange County-based management company, were directed back to St. Francis Pavilion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Public Health officially learned about one death at St. Francis Pavilion, possibly Christiansen’s (the individual is not named) \u003ca href=\"http://hfcis.cdph.ca.gov/LongTermCare/details/Complaint.aspx?fac=220000089\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">through a complaint\u003c/a> related to heat. In a 2018 document stating the agency’s results in the case, CDPH said it was “\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHCQ/LCP/CalHealthFind/Pages/ASPEN_FEDERAL_2567.aspx?EventID=LP4Q11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unable to substantiate\u003c/a>” any federal or state code violations stemming from the death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio /> program=\"KQED Science\" title=\"Firefighter Radio Call\" src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/science/2018/12/ShortenedRadioTrafficCommandCall.wav\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/RS7512_fire.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 90%\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small\">\u003cem>This radio call between firefighters has been edited for brevity and clarity. Photo: Andrew Burton/Getty Images\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Popsicles, but No Fans\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he night Loraine Christiansen died, overnight temperatures hovered in the 80s, and St. Francis Pavilion has no air conditioning to offer relief indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after paramedics rushed her to the hospital, a fire truck stayed behind, working out a plan to cool the facility. Firefighters had one industrial-sized fan called a blower, used at major fires to repel smoke and gas. But one wasn’t enough. It would take at least three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On emergency communication channels, Daly City Fire Captain Joel Abelson, on Fire Truck 95, asked Engine 91 for assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cstrong>Firefighter Calls for Additional Fans\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/strong>‘Yeah, 91, if you could stop by Station 95 and pick up the electric fan that’s in our back bay, we’re going to need both electric fans.\n\u003cp>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>91, copy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>Truck’s requesting a second fan from the back bay or off Engine 95, and then report to 99 Escuela with it, give it a blow out.’\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>On that busy night, Daly City’s only ladder truck, and two out of five of the city’s fire engines, labored for hours at St. Francis Pavilion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A person who was inside the facility and who spoke on condition of anonymity described firefighters moving through the 239-bed facility, using fans to blow hot air from one part of the facility to another, and eventually outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a report for the North County Fire Authority obtained by KQED, Abelson wrote that St. Francis was “uncomfortably hot.” He reported that fire crews “attempted to ventilate the building to cool rooms,” and that workers needed to add fans, because “cooling in the building was insufficient.” And he wrote that emergency responders told the facility’s staff “to check patients frequently for signs of heat-related issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later in the weekend, San Mateo County Adult Protective Services visited St. Francis Pavilion, watching as staffers handed out popsicles and ice. Care workers told a government employee without authority to speak to the media that they tried to buy fans, but nearby stores were sold out. Instead, the staff gathered residents who were mobile into the coolest room they could find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1935493\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/Fire-report-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1935493\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/Fire-report-1-800x385.jpg\" alt=\"Report from North County Fire Authority about the response to a 911 call from St. Francis Pavilion on September 2, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/Fire-report-1-800x385.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/Fire-report-1-160x77.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/Fire-report-1-768x370.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/Fire-report-1-240x115.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/Fire-report-1-375x180.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/Fire-report-1-520x250.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/Fire-report-1.jpg 927w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Report from North County Fire Authority about conditions found at St. Francis Pavilion, in response to a 911 call from a facility nurse, on September 2, 2017.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>KQED twice requested an interview with CDPH. The department offered a general statement, but refused to comment on reports of excessive heat at St. Francis. The department wouldn’t say whether or not it is investigating any other heat-related violations from that 2017 Labor Day weekend. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Details about ongoing investigations are confidential until the investigation is complete, and findings are issued to the facility,” said CDPH in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California’s Failure to Plan\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>ince the 2017 Labor Day heat wave, new regulations have taken effect in California that require St. Francis Pavilion and other facilities like it to be ready for emergencies, whether evacuating or sheltering in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to CDPH \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHCQ/LCP/CalHealthFind/Pages/ASPEN_FEDERAL_2567.aspx?EventID=GIPK21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">records\u003c/a>, in December 2017 an inspection concluded that St. Francis Pavilion lacked an effective emergency preparedness plan, and had neither policy nor procedures in place to protect people sheltering in place during a disaster. The facility’s administrator said during that inspection that “he was not aware of this requirement of the emergency preparedness plan.” St. Francis \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHCQ/LCP/CalHealthFind/_vti_bin/HFCISService.svc/DownloadDocumentByEventID?param=GIPK21~220000089\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">updated\u003c/a> its plan by January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>St. Francis Pavilion isn’t alone. NPR’s Jordan Rau \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/09/19/552042095/many-nursing-homes-arent-prepared-for-even-basic-emergencies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote\u003c/a> last year that more than half of California’s nursing facilities have been cited for failing to train workers what to do in an emergency or for failing to have a plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”ePXxNJbOu87Zut5NhteuQAOUJIHmS6wS”]That includes skilled nursing facilities in Paradise, surveyed earlier this year by CDPH. In February, investigators \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHCQ/LCP/CalHealthFind/_vti_bin/HFCISService.svc/DownloadDocumentByEventID?param=BNEU21~230000031\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found\u003c/a> that the 136-bed Cypress Meadows hadn’t done all of its required emergency preparedness work, including a drill. And CDPH \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHCQ/LCP/CalHealthFind/_vti_bin/HFCISService.svc/DownloadDocumentByEventID?param=M90R21~230000173\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found\u003c/a> that the 99-bed Pine View Center hadn’t done a risk assessment for disasters or drills for emergencies, and that its manual alarm boxes and sprinklers weren’t correctly maintained. All of the problems were corrected within weeks, well before the Camp Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Association of Health Facilities \u003ca href=\"https://www.cahfdisasterprep.com/hva\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has offered support\u003c/a> to nursing facilities, with model emergency plans, training modules, and an app to promote emergency response. The trade group sometimes lobbies against new legal mandates, but its disaster response manager, Jason Belden, said he believes new regulations have encouraged better preparation – including in Butte County last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, “I’m actually hopeful about how our industry can respond in a disaster in California,” Belden said. “The providers, from an emergency manager’s standpoint – there’s not much in there we would suggest cutting out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Nation’s Failure to Regulate\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">L\u003c/span>oraine Christiansen’s death in a Daly City nursing facility comes after years of warnings about heat-related illness in California, and after poor planning in other states endangered hundreds of patients who sheltered in place during hurricanes last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stories of those vulnerable Gulf Coast patients prompted \u003ca href=\"https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Sheltering%20in%20Danger%20Report%20(2%20Nov%202018).pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an investigative report\u003c/a> from the Democratic staff for the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance. Released this year, the report concluded that better emergency planning is crucial and that heat rules in particular should be re-evaluated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Trump administration is considering \u003ca href=\"http://theconsumervoice.org/news/detail/latest/cms-proposes-rollback-of-emergency-preparedness-rules-seeks-comments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">weakening\u003c/a> the requirement that facilities update emergency response plans annually; the proposal from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services would require updates only every other year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every licensed care facility in California is required to plan for emergencies. And climate change raises real questions about how ready our healthcare system is for more frequent hazards, said Linda Rudolph, \u003ca href=\"http://www.phi.org/people/?name=linda-rudolph\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">who directs\u003c/a> the Center for Climate Change and Health at the Public Health Institute, a nonprofit group in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to take a look at our planning, and our local and state laws and regulations,” Rudolph said, “to make sure that every school, every skilled nursing facility, every nursing home, and every hospital have plans in place that are based on what we know is in the forecast for these extreme and prolonged heat events.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We don’t have that now, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pat McGinnis, executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.canhr.org/about/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform\u003c/a>, agrees that developing a solid emergency response plan is ever more crucial now: Fast-moving fires don’t leave much room for error. Nor do intensifying storms or excessive heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People should not be dying in heat waves in a nursing home,” she said. “It’s unconscionable, but not surprising.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s Note: This reporting was supported by a grant from the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism Impact Fund.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>s the Camp Fire swallowed Paradise, as many as 175 elderly patients in skilled nursing facilities lay in its path. Nimble care workers saved them from the flames, wrangling private cars and pleading with ambulance companies to speed safe evacuations.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">A deadly and growing threat to nursing home patients remains overlooked: extreme heat.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Extraordinary, heroic efforts protected patients in Paradise. But climate change – which intensifies wildfires and strengthens heat waves and hurricanes – now flings ever-worsening natural disasters at nursing homes in California and across the country. And in some of these cases, managers and staff are failing their patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017 alone, disasters such as Hurricane Harvey in Texas and the Tubbs Fire in Northern California offered a glimpse of this growing risk, said Deborah Pacyna, director of public affairs for the California Association of Health Facilities, a trade association that represents nursing homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a wake-up call, definitely,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the Gulf Coast, excessive heat sickened hundreds of nursing home patients who sheltered in place during hurricanes. In Texas, a group of citizens calling themselves the “Cajun Navy” \u003ca href=\"https://www.gq.com/story/cajun-navy-and-the-future-of-vigilante-disaster-relief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">broke into\u003c/a> a nursing home to rescue patients when waters had risen a foot indoors; local police handcuffed one facility manager who refused to permit residents to leave. In Hollywood Hills, Florida, a medical examiner ruled 12 deaths as homicides after a hurricane knocked out power, leaving patients to swelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Northern California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1934332/the-largest-deadliest-and-most-destructive-fires-in-california-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent wildfires\u003c/a> are a high-profile example of just how threatening climate-related catastrophes can be for some of these most vulnerable people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1935474\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/GettyImages-1059414734.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1935474\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/GettyImages-1059414734-800x525.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/GettyImages-1059414734-800x525.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/GettyImages-1059414734-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/GettyImages-1059414734-768x504.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/GettyImages-1059414734-1020x669.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/GettyImages-1059414734-1200x787.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/GettyImages-1059414734-1920x1259.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/GettyImages-1059414734-1180x774.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/GettyImages-1059414734-960x629.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/GettyImages-1059414734-240x157.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/GettyImages-1059414734-375x246.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/GettyImages-1059414734-520x341.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign is posted on the Paradise Skilled Nursing Center as it is consumed by flames from the Camp Fire on November 8, 2018. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But another deadly and growing threat to nursing home patients remains overlooked: extreme heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2000, heat killed two nursing home patients and sent six more to the hospital in Burlingame. Bill Lockyer, who was then the state Attorney General, \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-lockyer-announces-enforcement-action-against-largest-provider\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigated\u003c/a> the first-ever Justice Department prosecution of a national nursing home chain. Temperatures for the sick and dying patients rose, on average, above 106 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘People should not be dying in heat waves in a nursing home. It’s unconscionable, but not surprising.’\u003ccite>Pat McGinnis,\u003cbr>\nCalifornia Advocates for Nursing Home Reform\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In 2006, in Stockton, Woodland and Fremont, nursing home patients died when air conditioning failed \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2006/07/24/heat-shatters-records-blackouts-possible/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">during a massive heat wave\u003c/a>. Local police evacuated some facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A KQED \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1932903/extreme-heat-killed-14-people-in-the-bay-area-last-year-10-takeaways-from-our-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigation\u003c/a> found that last year, extreme heat caused the deaths of at least 14 elderly people, including one 95-year-old woman at St. Francis Convalescent Pavilion, a skilled nursing facility in San Mateo County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That patient, Loraine Christiansen, died from heat shock – and her story suggests that nursing home patients are at serious risk from health care facilities still adapting to climate-driven disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anatomy of an Extreme Heat Death\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span> little before 10 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 2, 2017, a San Mateo County emergency dispatcher picked up a call from a nurse at St. Francis Pavilion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just found a patient alert but nonverbally responsive,” the nurse said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The temperature had peaked at 101 degrees that day. It was still 85 when the nurse reported that the patient had turned pale, and had a temperature of 103.1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christiansen had just been moved to hospice care at St. Francis Pavilion. A widow and former secretary for a Methodist church, Christiansen had hypertension, diabetes and chronic renal disease – all conditions that worsen in heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paramedics arrived at St. Francis Pavilion 13 minutes after the 911 call, according to transcripts from San Mateo County public safety communications obtained by KQED. By the time Christiansen arrived in the emergency department at Kaiser Permanente’s South San Francisco Medical Center, her temperature was 106 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the coroner’s report, emergency department doctors then simply sought to relieve her pain. Christiansen’s death certificate lists the cause as heat-related shock. In a report filed with the county, relied on by the coroner in determining the cause of death, one of the paramedics who had attended to Christiansen estimated the temperature in St. Francis Pavilion at 98 to 100 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not supposed to happen in homes licensed to provide care to fragile patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1935497\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/Coroner.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1935497\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/Coroner-800x456.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/Coroner-800x456.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/Coroner-160x91.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/Coroner-768x438.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/Coroner-240x137.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/Coroner-375x214.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/Coroner-520x296.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/12/Coroner.jpg 867w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Mateo County Coroner’s Report for Loraine Christiansen.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California law and federal regulations \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/42/483.10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">require\u003c/a> skilled nursing facilities licensed after 1990 to keep temperatures between 71 and 81 degrees. In older facilities, such as St. Francis Pavilion, the temperature simply has to be “comfortable and safe.” Violating these standards carries penalties up to $25,000 or more if the California Department of Public Health determines that the conditions led directly to a patient’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>St. Francis Pavilion’s administrator, Timothy Caslmon, did not respond to calls and emails between September and November. Calls to the main number for Generations Health, the facility’s Orange County-based management company, were directed back to St. Francis Pavilion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Public Health officially learned about one death at St. Francis Pavilion, possibly Christiansen’s (the individual is not named) \u003ca href=\"http://hfcis.cdph.ca.gov/LongTermCare/details/Complaint.aspx?fac=220000089\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">through a complaint\u003c/a> related to heat. In a 2018 document stating the agency’s results in the case, CDPH said it was “\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHCQ/LCP/CalHealthFind/Pages/ASPEN_FEDERAL_2567.aspx?EventID=LP4Q11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unable to substantiate\u003c/a>” any federal or state code violations stemming from the death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 90%\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small\">\u003cem>This radio call between firefighters has been edited for brevity and clarity. Photo: Andrew Burton/Getty Images\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Popsicles, but No Fans\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he night Loraine Christiansen died, overnight temperatures hovered in the 80s, and St. Francis Pavilion has no air conditioning to offer relief indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after paramedics rushed her to the hospital, a fire truck stayed behind, working out a plan to cool the facility. Firefighters had one industrial-sized fan called a blower, used at major fires to repel smoke and gas. But one wasn’t enough. It would take at least three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On emergency communication channels, Daly City Fire Captain Joel Abelson, on Fire Truck 95, asked Engine 91 for assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cstrong>Firefighter Calls for Additional Fans\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/strong>‘Yeah, 91, if you could stop by Station 95 and pick up the electric fan that’s in our back bay, we’re going to need both electric fans.\n\u003cp>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>91, copy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>Truck’s requesting a second fan from the back bay or off Engine 95, and then report to 99 Escuela with it, give it a blow out.’\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>On that busy night, Daly City’s only ladder truck, and two out of five of the city’s fire engines, labored for hours at St. Francis Pavilion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A person who was inside the facility and who spoke on condition of anonymity described firefighters moving through the 239-bed facility, using fans to blow hot air from one part of the facility to another, and eventually outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a report for the North County Fire Authority obtained by KQED, Abelson wrote that St. Francis was “uncomfortably hot.” He reported that fire crews “attempted to ventilate the building to cool rooms,” and that workers needed to add fans, because “cooling in the building was insufficient.” And he wrote that emergency responders told the facility’s staff “to check patients frequently for signs of heat-related issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later in the weekend, San Mateo County Adult Protective Services visited St. Francis Pavilion, watching as staffers handed out popsicles and ice. Care workers told a government employee without authority to speak to the media that they tried to buy fans, but nearby stores were sold out. 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The department offered a general statement, but refused to comment on reports of excessive heat at St. Francis. The department wouldn’t say whether or not it is investigating any other heat-related violations from that 2017 Labor Day weekend. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Details about ongoing investigations are confidential until the investigation is complete, and findings are issued to the facility,” said CDPH in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California’s Failure to Plan\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>ince the 2017 Labor Day heat wave, new regulations have taken effect in California that require St. Francis Pavilion and other facilities like it to be ready for emergencies, whether evacuating or sheltering in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to CDPH \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHCQ/LCP/CalHealthFind/Pages/ASPEN_FEDERAL_2567.aspx?EventID=GIPK21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">records\u003c/a>, in December 2017 an inspection concluded that St. Francis Pavilion lacked an effective emergency preparedness plan, and had neither policy nor procedures in place to protect people sheltering in place during a disaster. The facility’s administrator said during that inspection that “he was not aware of this requirement of the emergency preparedness plan.” St. Francis \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHCQ/LCP/CalHealthFind/_vti_bin/HFCISService.svc/DownloadDocumentByEventID?param=GIPK21~220000089\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">updated\u003c/a> its plan by January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>St. Francis Pavilion isn’t alone. NPR’s Jordan Rau \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/09/19/552042095/many-nursing-homes-arent-prepared-for-even-basic-emergencies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote\u003c/a> last year that more than half of California’s nursing facilities have been cited for failing to train workers what to do in an emergency or for failing to have a plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>That includes skilled nursing facilities in Paradise, surveyed earlier this year by CDPH. In February, investigators \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHCQ/LCP/CalHealthFind/_vti_bin/HFCISService.svc/DownloadDocumentByEventID?param=BNEU21~230000031\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found\u003c/a> that the 136-bed Cypress Meadows hadn’t done all of its required emergency preparedness work, including a drill. And CDPH \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHCQ/LCP/CalHealthFind/_vti_bin/HFCISService.svc/DownloadDocumentByEventID?param=M90R21~230000173\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found\u003c/a> that the 99-bed Pine View Center hadn’t done a risk assessment for disasters or drills for emergencies, and that its manual alarm boxes and sprinklers weren’t correctly maintained. All of the problems were corrected within weeks, well before the Camp Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Association of Health Facilities \u003ca href=\"https://www.cahfdisasterprep.com/hva\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has offered support\u003c/a> to nursing facilities, with model emergency plans, training modules, and an app to promote emergency response. The trade group sometimes lobbies against new legal mandates, but its disaster response manager, Jason Belden, said he believes new regulations have encouraged better preparation – including in Butte County last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, “I’m actually hopeful about how our industry can respond in a disaster in California,” Belden said. “The providers, from an emergency manager’s standpoint – there’s not much in there we would suggest cutting out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Nation’s Failure to Regulate\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">L\u003c/span>oraine Christiansen’s death in a Daly City nursing facility comes after years of warnings about heat-related illness in California, and after poor planning in other states endangered hundreds of patients who sheltered in place during hurricanes last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stories of those vulnerable Gulf Coast patients prompted \u003ca href=\"https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Sheltering%20in%20Danger%20Report%20(2%20Nov%202018).pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an investigative report\u003c/a> from the Democratic staff for the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Originally published Nov. 9, 2018\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Rising temperatures are risking the health of hundreds of thousands of Californians who do strenuous work indoors.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>We used sensors to measure how hot it gets for 16 people on the job in Sacramento, the Inland Empire and Los Angeles. The results showed that conditions were often dangerous.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Workers don’t report heat illness to employers or seek medical care out of fear of not getting scheduled or losing their jobs altogether.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">J\u003c/span>ose Rodriguez strides to his car near the Los Angeles-Long Beach harbor complex at the end of his shift. Over the last 26 years unloading goods for companies like Amazon and Sears, the money’s gotten a little better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some days the only good thing about his job is leaving it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This air here feels fresh,” Rodriguez says, in Spanish. He leans on his car, a 1986 Crown Victoria, nearly dapper in blue slacks, a Minnesota Twins hat and a safety vest. “The difficult thing is inside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">‘They just set him to the side and put a piece of cardboard over him.’\u003ccite>D’Wayne Wilson, describing a company response to a worker passing out from the heat\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez, who is 68, spends most of his day inside a 40-foot-long metal can, a newly arrived shipping container at the logistics company California Cartage. For $16 an hour, he pulls merchandise out onto wooden pallets, rearranging consumer goods like table saws and radios before they continue their journey to retailers nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside that metal can, when Rodriguez is wet with sweat, it literally sizzles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1934253\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/11/KQED_Heat_graphic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/11/KQED_Heat_graphic.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/11/KQED_Heat_graphic-160x285.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/11/KQED_Heat_graphic-674x1200.jpg 674w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/11/KQED_Heat_graphic-240x427.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/11/KQED_Heat_graphic-375x668.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/11/KQED_Heat_graphic-520x926.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">Excessive heat is already a health risk for millions of Californians at work, and it’s only getting worse. Over the last 30 years, warming nights and longer heat waves have become more frequent in the state. Four of the last five years were the hottest on record; 2018 could soon make it five out of six. This July and August, in Southern California, several daily and overnight temperature records toppled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day this summer, the temperature hit 98 degrees at the coast. As Rodriguez worked inside containers, a sensor measuring temperature and humidity found that the heat index – what it felt like to his body – was 115 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it’s that hot, he can’t think straight; he loses track of how many boxes he’s moved, and he has to start counting over. Sometimes he gets chills, and his knees give out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The deal is that you don’t mind those things,” he said. And it could be worse. At least he doesn’t vomit, like some of his coworkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/science/2018/11/PetersonWorkerHeatpt2.mp3\" title=\"Listen to Part 2\" program=\"Science\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/05/SciencePlayer_BG.jpeg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sensors Show Extreme Heat\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, KQED investigated heat-related health hazards in workplaces where temperatures indoors can be dangerous. We gave sensors measuring temperature and humidity to 16 workers in seven workplaces, mostly in the Inland Empire and Los Angeles area, and some in Woodland, near Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”elidGrUCrYQcS8MWjiZpj5cgpbspUT33″]The most vulnerable workers labor in industrial kitchens and laundries, and in the types of workplaces where we placed sensors: warehouses and port terminals, car washes and garment factories, a cannery and an airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s workplace safety authority, Cal/OSHA, is in the process of setting an unprecedented standard to guard against illness and death resulting from indoor heat stress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the state’s current \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/doshreg/Heat-Illness-Prevention-Indoors/Draft-revisions-Oct-16-2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposal\u003c/a>, employers must step up efforts to cut heat-related health risks in several circumstances, including when conditions rise above a heat index of 90 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using our sensor data, we calculated the heat index each worker felt during short periods in July, August and September. The workers we tracked experienced a heat index above the state’s proposed threshold on average 47 percent of the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/D6HJc/13/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California Sets Threshold\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the job, a worker’s core temperature rises when he exerts himself and when his environment is warm. Heat exhaustion – including nausea, headaches, confusion and muscle cramps – results when a person can’t cool off. When a body loses the ability to control core temperature, the more dangerous condition of heat stroke can send someone to the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">Workers we tracked experienced a heat index above the state’s proposed threshold on average 47 percent of the time.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In 2011, that’s what happened to Domingo Blancas, over the course of several hundred-degree August days. Heat illness is generally underreported. But Blancas told his employer, saw a doctor and was hospitalized, which, along with a complaint, prompted a Cal/OSHA investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employers have a general duty under state and federal law to protect workers against illness and injury on the job. The Blancas case established for the first time that in California, this duty includes heat, indoors as well as outdoors. Blancas’ employers — a warehouse and a staffing agency — each paid an $18,000 penalty for failing to minimize heat risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Domingo Blancas case, I think was a turning point,” said Tim Shadix, a lawyer with the Oakland-based nonprofit Worksafe. “Because of the lawsuit around the case, it galvanized people to push for change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1934294\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1934294\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/11/heatsensors-e1542168406700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The heat sensors KQED placed in workplaces where it gets extremely hot indoors. \u003ccite>(Molly Peterson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California was the first state in the country to set a threshold at which employers must protect workers outdoors. In 2016, state law added a similar requirement for employees indoors, requiring Cal/OSHA to send language to the state’s Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board by January 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This will probably be one of the most comprehensive safety standards to protect workers against heat,” said UCSF’s Dr. Robert Harrison, who formerly sat on the state’s Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trade groups representing employers assert that the standard isn’t necessary, and criticize Cal/OSHA’s approach in crafting a rule that apply to every company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Chamber of Commerce, backed by management groups, is leading the opposition to the new standard, and objected to the law that enacted the requirement in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marti Fisher, a policy advocate for the group, while not commenting directly on the most recent draft proposal, says the state’s approach is overbroad, and its rule is potentially difficult for small employers to follow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they insist on having a one-size-fits-all, it has to fit all,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA’s draft standard includes what’s called a “hierarchy of controls,” actions employers must take to reduce heat or a worker’s exposure to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Top priority in the state’s standard is to prevent heat, through ventilation and air conditioning. If that’s not feasible, employers can alter workers’ shifts to times when it’s cooler, or add breaks when it’s hot. Only if those measures don’t work can employers offer cooling vests and other personal protective gear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fisher says she worries that this regime will force many businesses to incur big building costs and cooling bills. “We can’t just put air conditioning everywhere,” she said. “There are creative options that employers can figure out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 90%\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small\">\u003cem>Just as wind chill can make a temperature feel colder to the body, humidity can make a temperature feel hotter. In this National Weather Service chart, you can see how humidity makes heat harder for the body to handle.\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1934140\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/11/KQED_HeatIndex.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/11/KQED_HeatIndex.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/11/KQED_HeatIndex-160x94.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/11/KQED_HeatIndex-768x449.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/11/KQED_HeatIndex-240x140.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/11/KQED_HeatIndex-375x219.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/11/KQED_HeatIndex-520x304.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘They Just Set Him to the Side and Put a Piece of Cardboard on Him’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At California Cartage, near the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, D’Wayne Wilson, 25, drives a forklift and moves goods between containers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once, he got sick from the heat, just after he started with the company. Last spring, he saw a co-worker go down: One moment, the guy was fine; the next, he was on the floor, unconscious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson says supervisors didn’t seem to know what to do. “They just set him to the side and put a piece of cardboard over him. They didn’t call the ambulance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, NFI, which acquired Cal Cartage after the incident occurred, didn’t address it directly, but said: “Our current practice is to allow heat breaks for anyone who requests one and inquire whether they feel they need medical attention. To date, no one has requested medical attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Running for Water\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even where workers are represented by a union, rising heat is aggravating tensions around workplace conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, 54-year-old Marta Lopez worked on a canning line at Pacific Coast Producers in Woodland, a job she’s done every year since 2002. The sensor she carried measured a heat index above 90 degrees 51 percent of the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food hygiene rules prohibit water bottles on the line. But, Lopez says, the water coolers are on a different level, and because workers feel pressure to keep the line moving, they have to keep running up and down stairs. That makes them vulnerable to heat illness. “It’s a vicious circle that does not stop, because the heat is very strong,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mona Shulman, general counsel for Pacific Coast Producers, says that water shouldn’t be more than 30 feet from the canning line, and that no worker should have to run for a break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having heard that, we will be reviewing that before we start processing again, next summer, for sure,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teamsters Local 601, which represents about 6,500 workers at agricultural processing jobs including those at the Woodland cannery, has filed a heat-related grievance, says Ashley Alvarado, the local’s president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PCP says no workers in Woodland reported heat illness this year. Shulman adds the company has recognized rising heat as a health hazard since 2006, when a major heat wave killed hundreds in California, many in the landlocked Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarado is skeptical. She says to ensure worker safety, a specific heat standard is necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That company is going to do what they need to do when there is a law that requires them to do it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/fWGxg/11/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cardboard Fans and Damp Cloth\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Inland Empire, warehouse workers are primarily Latino, low-paid, often temporary, and unlikely to have health care through their employer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For workers who told us they fear retaliation from their employers, we’re using pseudonyms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hugo,” who is 32, moves boxes in a warehouse for a logistics company in the Inland Empire. He says he knows that rest breaks and drinking water can prevent heat illness, but he’s under pressure to make quota.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don’t make the quota, they’ll give you a warning,” he said. After four warnings, he says, workers have lost their jobs. “When people have two or three warnings they know they’re close to being fired. They get more stressed and don’t take care of their health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">Heat illness is preventable on the job with sufficient water, rest, and shade. Since 2011, Cal/OSHA’s campaign, \u003ca href=\"https://www.99calor.org/espanol/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">99 Calor\u003c/a>, has communicated about outdoor worker heat risk in English, Spanish, Mixteco, Hmong and Punjabi. The state also works with \u003ca href=\"http://losh.ucla.edu/training-and-education/health-safety-leaders-specialist/health-safety/training/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UCLA\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://lohp.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UC Berkeley\u003c/a>, whose labor and occupational health programs offer training on heat illness prevention for small businesses and workers’ groups.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Warehouse workers also say they’re worried about their health because they know the climate is warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s been getting hotter, year by year,” said “Brandon,” who is 50. “It’s affecting us, maybe not you because you’re in the offices, but us warehouse workers are being affected by that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brandon drives a forklift in a warehouse. Lately, he says, he has felt heat symptoms twice a week. He doesn’t have health insurance, and he has only been to see a doctor once, because he pays $25 a visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rebecca,” 40 and a married mother of two, experienced extreme heat more than any other worker we tracked. In July and August, her heat index on the job was higher than 90 degrees over 82 percent of the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than a year, at a distribution center owned by fast-fashion retailer Charlotte Russe in San Bernardino County, she unpacked the clothes from boxes, hung them, and moved metal rods laden with merchandise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebecca said workers are “caged inside racks of clothes, so there is zero air getting to us.” To cool down, she and her co-workers tried using cardboard to fan each other, buying small battery-powered fans, and wrapping their heads and necks in damp cloth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She got severely sick from the heat this summer, causing her to nearly faint on a day we were tracking the heat in her workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That night, the index in the loft of the distribution center was 94 degrees, even after 10 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt that my stomach needed to throw up; then I noticed that my hands were starting to shake,” Rebecca said. Her supervisor offered her a break but no medical care. She drove herself to a clinic, where a doctor told her she was dehydrated but wouldn’t provide documentation that conditions on the job contributed to the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charlotte Russe did not return email and phonecall requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Rebecca left work. she received no sick pay and was kept off the schedule for two days afterward. That week, after paying the doctor, she ending up losing money. Since then, she has found another job. But she still gets headaches when it’s hot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People think that managers have the right to say what conditions are,” she said. “They’re afraid they might not find another opportunity elsewhere. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sensors Show Extreme Heat\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, KQED investigated heat-related health hazards in workplaces where temperatures indoors can be dangerous. We gave sensors measuring temperature and humidity to 16 workers in seven workplaces, mostly in the Inland Empire and Los Angeles area, and some in Woodland, near Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>The most vulnerable workers labor in industrial kitchens and laundries, and in the types of workplaces where we placed sensors: warehouses and port terminals, car washes and garment factories, a cannery and an airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s workplace safety authority, Cal/OSHA, is in the process of setting an unprecedented standard to guard against illness and death resulting from indoor heat stress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the state’s current \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/doshreg/Heat-Illness-Prevention-Indoors/Draft-revisions-Oct-16-2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposal\u003c/a>, employers must step up efforts to cut heat-related health risks in several circumstances, including when conditions rise above a heat index of 90 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using our sensor data, we calculated the heat index each worker felt during short periods in July, August and September. The workers we tracked experienced a heat index above the state’s proposed threshold on average 47 percent of the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/D6HJc/13/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California Sets Threshold\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the job, a worker’s core temperature rises when he exerts himself and when his environment is warm. Heat exhaustion – including nausea, headaches, confusion and muscle cramps – results when a person can’t cool off. When a body loses the ability to control core temperature, the more dangerous condition of heat stroke can send someone to the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">Workers we tracked experienced a heat index above the state’s proposed threshold on average 47 percent of the time.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In 2011, that’s what happened to Domingo Blancas, over the course of several hundred-degree August days. Heat illness is generally underreported. But Blancas told his employer, saw a doctor and was hospitalized, which, along with a complaint, prompted a Cal/OSHA investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employers have a general duty under state and federal law to protect workers against illness and injury on the job. The Blancas case established for the first time that in California, this duty includes heat, indoors as well as outdoors. Blancas’ employers — a warehouse and a staffing agency — each paid an $18,000 penalty for failing to minimize heat risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Domingo Blancas case, I think was a turning point,” said Tim Shadix, a lawyer with the Oakland-based nonprofit Worksafe. “Because of the lawsuit around the case, it galvanized people to push for change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1934294\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1934294\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/11/heatsensors-e1542168406700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The heat sensors KQED placed in workplaces where it gets extremely hot indoors. \u003ccite>(Molly Peterson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California was the first state in the country to set a threshold at which employers must protect workers outdoors. In 2016, state law added a similar requirement for employees indoors, requiring Cal/OSHA to send language to the state’s Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board by January 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This will probably be one of the most comprehensive safety standards to protect workers against heat,” said UCSF’s Dr. Robert Harrison, who formerly sat on the state’s Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trade groups representing employers assert that the standard isn’t necessary, and criticize Cal/OSHA’s approach in crafting a rule that apply to every company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Chamber of Commerce, backed by management groups, is leading the opposition to the new standard, and objected to the law that enacted the requirement in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marti Fisher, a policy advocate for the group, while not commenting directly on the most recent draft proposal, says the state’s approach is overbroad, and its rule is potentially difficult for small employers to follow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they insist on having a one-size-fits-all, it has to fit all,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA’s draft standard includes what’s called a “hierarchy of controls,” actions employers must take to reduce heat or a worker’s exposure to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Top priority in the state’s standard is to prevent heat, through ventilation and air conditioning. If that’s not feasible, employers can alter workers’ shifts to times when it’s cooler, or add breaks when it’s hot. Only if those measures don’t work can employers offer cooling vests and other personal protective gear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fisher says she worries that this regime will force many businesses to incur big building costs and cooling bills. “We can’t just put air conditioning everywhere,” she said. “There are creative options that employers can figure out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 90%\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small\">\u003cem>Just as wind chill can make a temperature feel colder to the body, humidity can make a temperature feel hotter. In this National Weather Service chart, you can see how humidity makes heat harder for the body to handle.\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1934140\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/11/KQED_HeatIndex.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/11/KQED_HeatIndex.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/11/KQED_HeatIndex-160x94.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/11/KQED_HeatIndex-768x449.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/11/KQED_HeatIndex-240x140.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/11/KQED_HeatIndex-375x219.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/11/KQED_HeatIndex-520x304.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘They Just Set Him to the Side and Put a Piece of Cardboard on Him’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At California Cartage, near the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, D’Wayne Wilson, 25, drives a forklift and moves goods between containers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once, he got sick from the heat, just after he started with the company. Last spring, he saw a co-worker go down: One moment, the guy was fine; the next, he was on the floor, unconscious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson says supervisors didn’t seem to know what to do. “They just set him to the side and put a piece of cardboard over him. They didn’t call the ambulance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, NFI, which acquired Cal Cartage after the incident occurred, didn’t address it directly, but said: “Our current practice is to allow heat breaks for anyone who requests one and inquire whether they feel they need medical attention. To date, no one has requested medical attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Running for Water\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even where workers are represented by a union, rising heat is aggravating tensions around workplace conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, 54-year-old Marta Lopez worked on a canning line at Pacific Coast Producers in Woodland, a job she’s done every year since 2002. The sensor she carried measured a heat index above 90 degrees 51 percent of the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food hygiene rules prohibit water bottles on the line. But, Lopez says, the water coolers are on a different level, and because workers feel pressure to keep the line moving, they have to keep running up and down stairs. That makes them vulnerable to heat illness. “It’s a vicious circle that does not stop, because the heat is very strong,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mona Shulman, general counsel for Pacific Coast Producers, says that water shouldn’t be more than 30 feet from the canning line, and that no worker should have to run for a break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having heard that, we will be reviewing that before we start processing again, next summer, for sure,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teamsters Local 601, which represents about 6,500 workers at agricultural processing jobs including those at the Woodland cannery, has filed a heat-related grievance, says Ashley Alvarado, the local’s president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PCP says no workers in Woodland reported heat illness this year. Shulman adds the company has recognized rising heat as a health hazard since 2006, when a major heat wave killed hundreds in California, many in the landlocked Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarado is skeptical. She says to ensure worker safety, a specific heat standard is necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That company is going to do what they need to do when there is a law that requires them to do it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/fWGxg/11/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cardboard Fans and Damp Cloth\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Inland Empire, warehouse workers are primarily Latino, low-paid, often temporary, and unlikely to have health care through their employer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For workers who told us they fear retaliation from their employers, we’re using pseudonyms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hugo,” who is 32, moves boxes in a warehouse for a logistics company in the Inland Empire. He says he knows that rest breaks and drinking water can prevent heat illness, but he’s under pressure to make quota.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don’t make the quota, they’ll give you a warning,” he said. After four warnings, he says, workers have lost their jobs. “When people have two or three warnings they know they’re close to being fired. They get more stressed and don’t take care of their health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">Heat illness is preventable on the job with sufficient water, rest, and shade. Since 2011, Cal/OSHA’s campaign, \u003ca href=\"https://www.99calor.org/espanol/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">99 Calor\u003c/a>, has communicated about outdoor worker heat risk in English, Spanish, Mixteco, Hmong and Punjabi. The state also works with \u003ca href=\"http://losh.ucla.edu/training-and-education/health-safety-leaders-specialist/health-safety/training/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UCLA\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://lohp.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UC Berkeley\u003c/a>, whose labor and occupational health programs offer training on heat illness prevention for small businesses and workers’ groups.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Warehouse workers also say they’re worried about their health because they know the climate is warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s been getting hotter, year by year,” said “Brandon,” who is 50. “It’s affecting us, maybe not you because you’re in the offices, but us warehouse workers are being affected by that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brandon drives a forklift in a warehouse. Lately, he says, he has felt heat symptoms twice a week. He doesn’t have health insurance, and he has only been to see a doctor once, because he pays $25 a visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rebecca,” 40 and a married mother of two, experienced extreme heat more than any other worker we tracked. In July and August, her heat index on the job was higher than 90 degrees over 82 percent of the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than a year, at a distribution center owned by fast-fashion retailer Charlotte Russe in San Bernardino County, she unpacked the clothes from boxes, hung them, and moved metal rods laden with merchandise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebecca said workers are “caged inside racks of clothes, so there is zero air getting to us.” To cool down, she and her co-workers tried using cardboard to fan each other, buying small battery-powered fans, and wrapping their heads and necks in damp cloth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She got severely sick from the heat this summer, causing her to nearly faint on a day we were tracking the heat in her workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That night, the index in the loft of the distribution center was 94 degrees, even after 10 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt that my stomach needed to throw up; then I noticed that my hands were starting to shake,” Rebecca said. Her supervisor offered her a break but no medical care. She drove herself to a clinic, where a doctor told her she was dehydrated but wouldn’t provide documentation that conditions on the job contributed to the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charlotte Russe did not return email and phonecall requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Rebecca left work. she received no sick pay and was kept off the schedule for two days afterward. That week, after paying the doctor, she ending up losing money. Since then, she has found another job. But she still gets headaches when it’s hot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People think that managers have the right to say what conditions are,” she said. “They’re afraid they might not find another opportunity elsewhere. 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"content": "\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://sor.senate.ca.gov/sites/sor.senate.ca.gov/files/Public%20Health%20Climate%20Change%20LINKS_4%201126.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new report\u003c/a> released this week outlines, in great detail, the potential health and economic costs to California from climate change — everything from premature deaths due to heatstroke to anticipated spikes in West Nile virus, Valley fever, and even kidney stones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report was commissioned by state Sen. Ricardo Lara, who will soon be giving up his senate seat after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">being elected\u003c/a> insurance commissioner earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the first time we have a California report that combines the latest research on our health and the ‘new normal’ of extreme wildfire and climate-caused events,” Lara wrote to KQED in an email. (Gov. Jerry Brown recently amended his own climate vocabulary, calling global warming impacts “the new \u003cem>abnormal\u003c/em>.”) The senator was in Washington D.C. presenting to the World Bank on the report and on his bill to limit hydro-fluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerants, which are potent greenhouse gases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”vn6VCB9SjRIBblKPRR18mDEt6roBFBjm”]The report contains no new research; it’s a review of existing literature, an attempt to outline both the current state of climate change in California and the expected health effects on the state’s population in coming years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the warnings: the Central Valley may experience heat-health events that last two weeks longer, while the northern Sierra region can expect four to 10 times more heat-health events than currently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is consensus among experts that by 2100, California will see maximum average temperatures increase by 5.6 to 8.8 degrees Fahrenheit above 1960–2005 temperatures,” says the report — depending on whether emissions continue rising or decrease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What does that mean?\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>By 2050, as many as 6,700 to 11,300 premature deaths are expected due to rising temperatures, which can exacerbate existing conditions like heat disease or asthma.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Poor air quality will increase the incidence of respiratory illnesses.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The intensity and frequency of storms will increase death and injury.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Higher temperatures will also lead to the growth of disease-carrying mosquitos and ticks, as well as food-borne pathogens.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“What this report shows is that we need to be discussing how to address the lingering effects on public health, our air and our food,” said Lara. Here are some of the details laid out. You can also read \u003ca href=\"https://sor.senate.ca.gov/sites/sor.senate.ca.gov/files/Public%20Health%20Climate%20Change%20LINKS_4%201126.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the full 80-page report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heat\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increases in temperatures have dramatic impacts on the health of the community. In the state’s nine most populous counties, from 1999 to 2003, rising temperatures increased the risk of hospitalization for heatstroke by 342 percent, for dehydration by 10.8 percent and for renal failure by 7.4 percent. There was also a 1.7 percent increase in mortality across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During heat waves those numbers can be higher. Studies tracking the 2006 heat wave found a 9 percent increase in mortality per 10-degree increase in temperature in the affected counties. That caused about 600 heat-related deaths over the two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High temperatures are also associated with pre-term birth. From 1999 to 2006, a 10-degree rise in temperature increased the risk of pre-term birth by 8.6 percent across 16 California counties, though that risk was higher for younger mothers and highest for African-American mothers (14.9 percent).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turns out that kidney stones are also more prevalent in hotter climates, because minerals build up under dehydration conditions. Projecting existing rates of kidney stones in nearby hot climates onto anticipated temperatures increases in California predicts that the state will see a 10.7 percent increase in risk of kidney stones by 2050.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Air Quality\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climate change is also known to affect air quality as concentration of ground-level ozone is stoked by heat and methane emissions, while fine particulate matter in the air (typically known as PM2.5) is a product of wildfire smoke, which is expected to increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”Jpmw1DpnGs905iMXpwAAljHeFkY04p4r”]Air pollution in the San Joaquin Valley already contributes to 460 premature deaths each year and approximately 3,230 cases of acute bronchitis in children — with projections for those numbers rising as air pollution worsens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climate models project “large” wildfires are expected to increase in number by 21 percent by 2034, and with wildfire smoke comes a well-documented higher rate of hospitalizations and respiratory illnesses. During the 2015 wildfire season statewide, for example, there was a 171 percent increase in the risk of a pulmonary embolism during the heavy smoke periods. And during the 2003 fall fire in Southern California, acute bronchitis hospital admissions increased on average by 67 percent. Even after the fires, admission rates for acute bronchitis and pneumonia still went up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valley fever is also on the rise as the soil dries out and people are more apt to breathe in the fungus that leads to the illness. Valley fever includes coughing, fever, chest pains and, in the worst conditions, can result in meningitis. Valley fever rose 34 percent from 2016 to 2017, with the heavy majority of the cases in the San Joaquin Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Extreme Weather\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Droughts, floods and fires all have immediate health consequences. And there are documented increases in mental health issues, like PTSD, depression and suicidal thoughts. Disaster recovery is also known to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11706264/study-people-of-color-and-low-income-residents-most-vulnerable-to-wildfire-impacts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hit vulnerable populations harder\u003c/a>, especially those without insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”8hBZ41YlWfjH8B4Rjxb7MBQPe3hQX0Sf”]But extreme weather events also have indirect health consequences. For example, in 1993 after several years of drought, a heavy rainfall in Tulare County led to an increase in Valley fever, because of the growth of fungus. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://sor.senate.ca.gov/sites/sor.senate.ca.gov/files/Public%20Health%20Climate%20Change%20LINKS_4%201126.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new report\u003c/a> released this week outlines, in great detail, the potential health and economic costs to California from climate change — everything from premature deaths due to heatstroke to anticipated spikes in West Nile virus, Valley fever, and even kidney stones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report was commissioned by state Sen. Ricardo Lara, who will soon be giving up his senate seat after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">being elected\u003c/a> insurance commissioner earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the first time we have a California report that combines the latest research on our health and the ‘new normal’ of extreme wildfire and climate-caused events,” Lara wrote to KQED in an email. (Gov. Jerry Brown recently amended his own climate vocabulary, calling global warming impacts “the new \u003cem>abnormal\u003c/em>.”) The senator was in Washington D.C. presenting to the World Bank on the report and on his bill to limit hydro-fluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerants, which are potent greenhouse gases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>The report contains no new research; it’s a review of existing literature, an attempt to outline both the current state of climate change in California and the expected health effects on the state’s population in coming years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the warnings: the Central Valley may experience heat-health events that last two weeks longer, while the northern Sierra region can expect four to 10 times more heat-health events than currently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is consensus among experts that by 2100, California will see maximum average temperatures increase by 5.6 to 8.8 degrees Fahrenheit above 1960–2005 temperatures,” says the report — depending on whether emissions continue rising or decrease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What does that mean?\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>By 2050, as many as 6,700 to 11,300 premature deaths are expected due to rising temperatures, which can exacerbate existing conditions like heat disease or asthma.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Poor air quality will increase the incidence of respiratory illnesses.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The intensity and frequency of storms will increase death and injury.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Higher temperatures will also lead to the growth of disease-carrying mosquitos and ticks, as well as food-borne pathogens.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“What this report shows is that we need to be discussing how to address the lingering effects on public health, our air and our food,” said Lara. Here are some of the details laid out. You can also read \u003ca href=\"https://sor.senate.ca.gov/sites/sor.senate.ca.gov/files/Public%20Health%20Climate%20Change%20LINKS_4%201126.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the full 80-page report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heat\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increases in temperatures have dramatic impacts on the health of the community. In the state’s nine most populous counties, from 1999 to 2003, rising temperatures increased the risk of hospitalization for heatstroke by 342 percent, for dehydration by 10.8 percent and for renal failure by 7.4 percent. There was also a 1.7 percent increase in mortality across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During heat waves those numbers can be higher. Studies tracking the 2006 heat wave found a 9 percent increase in mortality per 10-degree increase in temperature in the affected counties. That caused about 600 heat-related deaths over the two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High temperatures are also associated with pre-term birth. From 1999 to 2006, a 10-degree rise in temperature increased the risk of pre-term birth by 8.6 percent across 16 California counties, though that risk was higher for younger mothers and highest for African-American mothers (14.9 percent).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turns out that kidney stones are also more prevalent in hotter climates, because minerals build up under dehydration conditions. Projecting existing rates of kidney stones in nearby hot climates onto anticipated temperatures increases in California predicts that the state will see a 10.7 percent increase in risk of kidney stones by 2050.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Air Quality\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climate change is also known to affect air quality as concentration of ground-level ozone is stoked by heat and methane emissions, while fine particulate matter in the air (typically known as PM2.5) is a product of wildfire smoke, which is expected to increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Air pollution in the San Joaquin Valley already contributes to 460 premature deaths each year and approximately 3,230 cases of acute bronchitis in children — with projections for those numbers rising as air pollution worsens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climate models project “large” wildfires are expected to increase in number by 21 percent by 2034, and with wildfire smoke comes a well-documented higher rate of hospitalizations and respiratory illnesses. During the 2015 wildfire season statewide, for example, there was a 171 percent increase in the risk of a pulmonary embolism during the heavy smoke periods. And during the 2003 fall fire in Southern California, acute bronchitis hospital admissions increased on average by 67 percent. Even after the fires, admission rates for acute bronchitis and pneumonia still went up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valley fever is also on the rise as the soil dries out and people are more apt to breathe in the fungus that leads to the illness. Valley fever includes coughing, fever, chest pains and, in the worst conditions, can result in meningitis. Valley fever rose 34 percent from 2016 to 2017, with the heavy majority of the cases in the San Joaquin Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Extreme Weather\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Droughts, floods and fires all have immediate health consequences. And there are documented increases in mental health issues, like PTSD, depression and suicidal thoughts. 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"content": "\u003cp>A new Stanford \u003ca href=\"http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/11/eaau3487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study\u003c/a> released on Wednesday says hot and dry conditions are increasingly going to hit multiple regions at the same time — shrinking crop yields, destabilizing food prices and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2018/11/27/the-new-abnormal-climate-effects-on-the-fire-season-are-just-beginning/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">laying the groundwork for large wildfires\u003c/a> like we’ve seen in California in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This comes on the heels of \u003ca href=\"https://news.agu.org/press-release/extreme-heat-increasing-both-summer-and-winter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another study\u003c/a> earlier this week from the American Geophysical Union which measured the rise in extreme heat events in both summer and winter. 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For example, the odds that both China and India — two of the world’s largest agricultural producers — have low precipitation and extremely warm temperatures in the same year has increased from 5 percent to 15 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The global marketplace provides a hedge against localized extremes,” noted Noah Diffenbaugh, a Stanford climate scientist and co-author of the study, “and we’re already seeing an erosion of that climate buffer as extremes have increased in response to global warming,”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”TsjrIDHEp4FADnyAbpod5wkpWGZyF75A”]“When these extremes occur simultaneously, it exacerbates the adverse impacts beyond what any of them would have caused separately,” said Ali Sarhadi, the study’s lead author and a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study also analyzed climate projections for future scenarios. Since the late 19th century, the global temperature has increased 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit. Moving forward, the study’s authors found, in many regions the odds increase to 75 percent that average temperatures will rise well beyond the normal range experienced this last century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just going to get hotter in the summer, though. It’s going to get warmer in the winter too — which also has lasting implications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other \u003ca href=\"https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2018JD029150\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new study\u003c/a> released this week, from the American Geophysical Union, found both relative and absolute “extreme heat” events have increased across the U.S. and Canada since 1980, while both relative and absolute extreme cold events decreased. In other words, we’ve seen a rise in both overall extremes, like the absolute hottest days in summer, but also extremes for the normal range of that time of year, like unseasonably warm days in winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”raaLWEhxCsVCnB6sFwUvZyRhRMQu8Rfv”]Relative extremes are changing faster than absolute extremes. And relative extremes can pose a higher ecological risk because the out-of-season weather impact species and plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Relative temperature anomalies can trigger what are called phenological mismatches, where a mismatch in the temperature and the season can cause trees to bloom too early and birds and insects to migrate before there is appropriate food,” said Scott Sheridan, professor in geography at Kent State University and lead author of the AGU study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, the unusually warm month of March in 2012, across the eastern and midwestern U.S., caused vegetation to bloom prematurely and then die off in subsequent frost, leading to large agricultural losses (2012 remains the hottest year on record in the continental U.S.). Mid-winter thaws and early-season heat can also have health impacts on vulnerable populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Extreme heat events have increased across 79 percent of the U.S. and Canada, with the trend greatest in the southern U.S. and northern Quebec. Relative extreme heat events have increased at a greater rate, averaging .22 more days per decade, with some parts of the southern U.S. showing an increase of up to one day per decade of relative extreme heat. At the same time, extreme cold events have decreased at higher rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”rAZ2tFsSbR97GGfg5yu5iG9EVkxX7Oqx”]All of this comes in the wake of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1934809/federal-report-climate-change-already-hurting-u-s-communities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a federal report\u003c/a> released last week that outlined the ways climate change is already affecting Americans’ economic and physical health. The message from the various studies’ authors? 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"content": "\u003cp>Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke was back in Butte County this week, after blaming California’s horrific fire season on \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-california-fires-zinke-paradise-forest-trump-20181119-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“radical environmentalists,”\u003c/a> a stance he appeared to soften in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/26/opinions/wildfire-prevention-goes-hand-in-hand-with-creating-jobs-zinke/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent editorial\u003c/a> for CNN.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his search for causes and solutions, Zinke does concede the “warm temperatures,” though he’s still reticent to utter the words “climate change” as a contributing factor. On a return visit to the ongoing Camp Fire recovery Monday, Zinke said he’d rather spend federal dollars on thinning forests and improving parks than on repeatedly rebuilding fire-ravaged towns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year was California’s most destructive fire season — until this year. The Golden State is in the midst of what Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with UCLA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, calls “a multi-year fire siege.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s hard to point to climate change as the distinct cause of any individual fire, Swain calls it a “threat multiplier,” which means climate change has lead to conditions that make extreme fires more likely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s science editor Craig Miller and Swain joined \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101868240/how-climate-change-helped-create-californias-fire-siege\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED’s Forum\u003c/a> recently to talk about the impact of climate change on wildfires and what we can expect in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The New Abnormal\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the wake of Butte County’s Camp Fire, the most devastating on record in California, Gov. 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Multiple factors lead to a particular fire at a specific time and location. The broader question is: are wildfire disasters of this magnitude significantly more likely due to the fact that the climate is changing? “The answer to that is definitely yes,” said Swain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This risk-based approach makes more sense for how we frame these issues and how we plan for disasters — by asking what is the likelihood of increasing dangerous conditions? And that likelihood is absolutely going up, according to Swain and most other scientists who have studied the matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Longer Fire Season, Shorter Rainy Season\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Although autumn precipitation in California tends not to be a large portion of the overall amount of rain in a given year, it has an out-sized influence on fire season, said Swain. Early-season rain, at the end of a hot, dry summer, is “really consequential from a wildfire and an ecological perspective,” he said. Even just one or two inches moistens the soil column and lets the dry vegetation recover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That rain usually marks the end of fire season and this year, almost up to Thanksgiving, as the Camp and Woolsey Fires were raging north and south, that fire-season ending rain had yet to fall anywhere in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s really, really late,” said Swain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is an emerging trend toward drier autumns throughout the state, which Swain expects to continue. He expects, in the future, to see a further contraction of the rainy season, not necessarily less rain overall, but longer dry conditions into fall and dry conditions beginning earlier in the spring, essentially “burning the candle at both ends,” as he put it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another reason autumn precipitation is important is because offshore winds peak late in autumn (not just the legendary Santa Ana winds of Southern California, but all up and down the state). If the rainy season comes later and later, with months of drying time, peak fire season could shift to later in the year, when these strong winds occur. Both the Camp Fire and the Woolsey Fire were driven by strong winds.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>California’s Getting Warmer and Drier\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As the climate warms, it has a profound effect on how much moisture is in the vegetation. There’s something called the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapour-pressure_deficit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vapor pressure deficit\u003c/a>, which is the propensity of warmer atmospheres to suck water out of living plants. This increases exponentially even as temperatures go up in linear fashion. That means even a few degrees increase in the temperature can make the vegetation much drier and more susceptible to fire, particularly if the dry vegetation coincides with a longer warmer fire season and the strong late-autumn winds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of these factors combine to increase the chances of dangerous fire conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Is There Hope?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The California’s recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.climateassessment.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fourth Climate Change Assessment\u003c/a> projected that, if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, the state could see large fires increase by half and the total acreage burned increase by about 77%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re already starting to see this play out right in front of us,” said Miller. Swain took that pessimistic prediction a step further, noting the current fire situation is merely a hint of what’s to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re only just beginning this trend towards longer fire seasons, more severe fire seasons, hotter summers, wilder precipitation whiplash,” said Swain, the last a reference to seasons that whipsaw from wet to dry, or vice versa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are also a large number of people who have moved into areas that are at risk. Across the U.S., said Miller, there are 100 million people living in what’s known as the wildland-urban-interface — areas just like Paradise that exist on the edges of rural forests and remote wildland. 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I do think there’s probably a difference. But I don’t know that it’s man-made,” the president said on CBS’ \u003cem>60 Minutes\u003c/em> in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an August interview about deadly wildfires in California, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke told television station KCRA Sacramento: “This has nothing to do with climate change. This has to do with active forest management.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new report, mandated by \u003ca href=\"https://www.globalchange.gov/content/whats-new-nca4\">Congress\u003c/a> and published by the U.S. Global Change Research Program, is the latest and most detailed confirmation that humans are driving climate change and that Americans are already adapting to and suffering from its effects. 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