The incendiary hot days tend to hit some of the most difficult neighborhoods than others, a problem that becomes more dangerous through Standard Like the US spaces that witnessed last week. New online Dashboard It explains how Latin neighborhoods are not affected by California.
It was developed by the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), the tool helps fill the gaps as the Trump administration It takes a heavy hammer To federalism climateand Sweat, sweat Data resources.
“We want to provide reliable facts and sources of data. We do not want this to be something that was wiped from the field of politics,” says Arturo Vargas Posamanti, director of faculty research at the UCLA Politics and Politics Institute (LPPI).
“We don’t want this to be something that is wiped.”
The dashboard in the Latin climate and climate includes data on heat pollution and severe air, as well as asthma rates and other health conditions – issues related to each other. It can be high temperatures Accelerate chemical reactions that create smoky fog. Chronic exposure to accurate particles, or soot, can be exposed, Increased risk of a child in asthma. Infection with asthma or any other respiratory disease can make someone Twice For weak air quality and heat stress. Burning fossil fuels – whether in nearby factories, power plants or internal combustion vehicles – makes all these problems worse.
Latin neighborhoods should deal with 23 days of severe heat per year compared to the non -Latin white neighborhoods in California, as the dashboard appears. LPPI selects intense heat as the days when temperatures rose to 90 degrees Fahrenheit or higher.
If you have heard about a phenomenon called The effect of urban heat islandbig Differences in temperature from the neighborhood to the neighborhood Maybe it will not be a surprise. The areas with less green spaces, dark, paved surfaces and waste temperature tend from industrial facilities or vehicles in general to Heat trap. About 1 in 10 Americans live in a place that makes it the built environment that you feel is not less than 8 degrees Fahrenheit more hot than that without this urban extension according to one Ticket From 65 cities last year. After years of Redling Which strengthened the separation and not investing in some neighborhoods in the United States, there are neighborhoods with more colored population Often more hot than others.
The dashboard includes facts by the province to show factors that may raise temperatures in certain areas. In Los Angeles Province, for example, only four percent of lands are shaded in Latin majority due to the umbrella of trees compared to nine percent in non -Latin white neighborhoods. On the contrary, unpaved surfaces such as asphalt and concrete, which maintains 68 percent of the lands in Latin neighborhoods, compared to 47 percent in non -Latin white areas in Latino Province.
For this dashboard, LPPI defines a Latin alive as a census as it is more than 70 percent of the Latin population. I used the same 70 percent threshold to determine the non -Latin white neighborhoods.
Latin neighborhoods in California are also under weak air pollution and have twice the number of ER visits related to asthma, such as non -Latin white neighborhoods, according to the Dashboard. He – she It combines data From the Statistics Office, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are called diseases CaleviroscreenAnd other sources are available to the public.
The Trump administration led to the projection of the federal counterpart to Calenviroscreen, Ejscreen calledAs part of disinfection Of diversity and arrow research. It was the researchers Work to track and archive data collections This may be targeted Since President Donald Trump returned to his position.
The efforts made to preserve these types of studies are equally continuous, so that people do not have to rely on old information that no longer reflects the current conditions on the ground. Other researchers have launched new initiatives to document the Trump administration’s environmental decline. For example, the Environmental Defense Fund and other invitation groups, Firing A Maps In April, 500 establishments across the United States show that the Environmental Protection Agency recently called for a request to obtain exemptions to collect air pollution boundaries.
The California University’s Levornia’s dashboard adds to a mixture of locally led research campaigns, although it cannot replace the breadth of data collected by federal agencies historically. “Of course, we do not have the resources that our federal government enjoys,” says Bosamanti. “But with what we can do, I think one of the main goals is to maintain this problem [at the top of] The agenda and providing reliable information will be useful for community change. “
Such data is a powerful tool to finish the types of variations offered by the dashboard. He can inform efforts Cultivation of trees wherever they are needed. Or, public health officials and community preachers can appear as they need to register with people to ensure that they are able to find a safe place to cold during the next heat wave.
