Austin – Although the school is outside the session for several other weeks, it is still relevant given a study conducted by the Climate Center on how students are affected by continuous climate change.
This study included 65 main cities in the United States. The given factor is that buildings and streets are pottery heat, also known as urban heat island. 65 cities are home to 5,000,000 people, or 15 % of the country’s total population.
Note: The United States Environmental Protection Agency defines the effect of the urban heat island as “a measurable increase in the surrounding air temperatures resulting in the first place from replacing the vegetation with buildings, roads and other heat -absorbing infrastructure.”
Each of these 65 cities has either a focused urban nucleus or a more arranged urban core in a very sophisticated area, such as Houston. On average, students of public schools in many of these cities suffer from at least daily temperatures more hot than what they would have returned due to the urban heat island environment.
These 65 cities are home to more than 12,000 schools with approximately 6.2 million students. More than 4,000,000 students, 76 %, go to schools in harsh urban temperature areas. The remaining students go to schools in areas that are only colder.
Austin was one of the cities it included. The numbers show the number of students all over Austin is affected by the influence of the urban heat island, which can add up to 8 degrees above the temperature with the original vegetable cover and the green canopy against concrete roads, sidewalks, buildings, etc. Remember, this is only the city.
The drawing below shows the difference between these schools in the urban heat islands and those that benefit from being near water surfaces as well as about areas that contain more plants and trees.
The goals of building future schools may include their composition with wonderful surfaces and the presence in the areas around them Cold sidewalks. These two other ways to reduce the aforementioned local heat islands.
These numbers, of course, are the highest in the educational areas that start their academic year in August and end in May, as we do in Austin.
We have written several times that the intense heat is the worst weather risk in the United States, according to noaa. Children are among some groups facing a higher disease associated with heat than others.
This is part of the reason for the importance of the study, as we are awaiting the beginning of the next school year.