To the editor: L.A. isn’t any stranger to extreme warmth (“As L.A. bakes, length of warmth waves is accelerating sooner than local weather change, UCLA research reveals,” July 10). A easy process, similar to getting groceries, all of a sudden turns into a lot riskier within the scorching climate.
This summer time, I walked round downtown. Right here, I met a girl named Maria, who was ready on the bus cease. She describes the quite a few instances she has seen others faint due to the warmth.
Darkish pavement is among the main contributors to trapping warmth. Asphalt might be as much as 60 levels hotter than the encompassing air.
Our state has beforehand experimented with coating streets with reflective surfaces. As a substitute, we should always strive an easier resolution: bushes.
Research present that communities with extra bushes see a cooling impact. Timber present essential shade that decreases the encompassing temperature.
Let’s work collectively and plant extra bushes to make life in L.A. a bit extra nice and hospitable.
Wesley Peng, Lengthy Seaside
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To the editor: It’s apparent that our planet is getting hotter. Excessive-temperature data are being damaged all over the world. This UCLA report signifies that the warmth will not be solely growing, but it surely’s lasting longer. What disturbs me on this reporting is one researcher’s implication that the right response is to adapt to it. Speed up adaptation planning, we’re instructed, and plant extra shade bushes, design buildings otherwise, go outdoor earlier within the day. Garbage.
Slightly than merely adapt, we should change the situations which might be creating the warmth. Each story about our world getting hotter ought to remind readers why it’s getting hotter. It’s easy. Now we have put, and are persevering with to place, an excessive amount of carbon within the environment. The logical response is to cease doing this, to start now to section out burning coal, oil and fuel, and deploy as quick as attainable available, inexpensive, clear vitality.
Robert Taylor, Santa Barbara
