<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/psu-psl032119.php" class="has-thumb" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s linear 0s; display: block; position: relative; padding: 0px; min-height: 125px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><header style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 18px 0px; margin-right: 110px;" class=""><div class="reltime" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Public Release: 22-Mar-2019</font></span></div><h2 class="post_title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">PSU study: Low-income neighborhoods more vulnerable to flooding, extreme heat</font></span></h2><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000" class="">PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY</font></span></header><div class="entry hidden-xs" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 110px;"><p class="intro" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(185, 186, 188); padding-left: 10px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#000000" size="4" class="">The methods can be replicated by cities to help them identify which neighborhoods are most at risk and what demographic factors characterize the most vulnerable citizens.</font></span></p></div><dl class="meta hidden-xs dl-horizontal" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 17px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-right: 110px;"><dt class="yellow" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; float: left; width: auto; clear: left; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; text-transform: uppercase; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-color: rgb(255, 177, 52); padding-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 12px; min-width: 100px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">JOURNAL</font></span></dt><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-left: 100px;" class=""><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction</font></em></dd></dl></a><div class=""><b class="">Full release</b> <a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/psu-psl032119.php" class="">https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/psu-psl032119.php</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div style="font-weight: normal;" class="">“It is now well recognized that the likelihood of extremely hot summers has significantly increased due to anthropogenically-induced warming.”<br class=""><br class="">Chao Li et al. Recent very hot summers in northern hemispheric land areas measured by wet bulb globe temperature will be the norm within 20 years. <br class=""><br class="">Earth’s Future, accepted article. Accepted online October 17, 2017.<br class=""> <br class="">Open access:<br class=""><a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017EF000639/full" class="">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017EF000639/full</a><br class=""></div><div style="font-weight: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-weight: normal;" class="">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br class=""></div><div style="font-weight: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">“ … we expect with high confidence that global-average temperatures greater than those observed in 2015 will occur<span style="font-weight: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""> at least every second year</span> <b style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">by</b> 2040.” <br class=""><br class="">Sophie C. Lewis et al. DEFINING A NEW NORMAL FOR EXTREMES IN A WARMING WORLD<br class="">Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, June 2017<br class=""><br class="">Open access:<br class=""><a href="https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0183.1" class="">https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0183.1</a></div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">“… the serious meaning in a concept lies in the difference it will make to someone if it is true.”<br class=""><br class="">William James (1842 –1910)<br class="">Pragmatism. Meridian Books, 1955</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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