UCLA Heat Lab

Interdisciplinary research team focused on thermal inequality, directed by Prof. Bharat Venkat

[Bharat Venkat @bhar_venkat]

The 1st peer-reviewed article coming out of the @UclaHeatLab, co-authored with 4 of the students in my lab. Incarcerated folks are at the frontline of climate change. Incarceration makes people more likely to experience heat-related illness and death (1/5)
https://t.co/lbqP3qtJEm

[Bharat Venkat @bhar_venkat]

This Sunday, I'll be speaking @MOCAlosangeles about the effects of extreme heat (and probably the Santa Ana winds) as part of "A Climate Symposium: Landscapes on the Edge," which draws on themes from the Josh Kline exhibit. If you're in LA, come through!

https://t.co/4ywhhkU3KW

[UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs @UCLALuskin]

The @washingtonpost spoke to #UCLALuskin’s @VKellyTurner, assoc. dir. of @LuskinCenter, about a new push to turn asphalt schoolyards into greener spaces that provide cooling relief at a time of rising temperatures. Read more... #UCLA @UCLA @uclaurbnplnning https://t.co/JcIX8S7W2R

[Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf]

Great to see the Guardian putting the modern global heating in a paleoclimate perspective!

“There’s nothing in Earth’s history that shows a change happening this quickly, it’s just so, so fast. Right now the pace of change is one of the biggest concerns.”
https://t.co/hwye5Ori95

[Travis Longcore @travislongcore]

It is, in fact, insane & a transparent attempt to streamline building in fire-prone areas by moving the focus from the landscape risks to building techniques. But the landscape is more important and that is what developers don't like because it puts some areas off limits.

[Global Heat Health Information Network @heathealth_info]

“#ExtremeHeat is the leading weather-related cause of death in the United States. This first-of-its-kind #NationalHeatStrategy will ensure that the federal family is working in lockstep to help communities build a more heat-resilient nation.” - @FEMA_Deanne @fema

[Nick Lutsko @Nick_Lutsko]

If you’re interested in climate/weather, it’s worth reading Project 2025’s recommendations for NOAA. Summary (p664): “(NOAA) should be dismantled & many of its functions eliminated, sent to other agencies, privatized, or placed under the control of states” 🧵

[L.A. County Public Defenders Union @LApubdefunion]

"Please help us, they’re not doing anything for us."

"If we were animals, they’d be treating us better."

"We can't breathe."

@SamTLevin shows the cruel reality inside CA's largest women's prison, where a woman died on Saturday as temperatures climbed above 110 degrees.

[Bharat Venkat @bhar_venkat]

A new @latimes op-ed written with one of my fave colleagues, Dr. Nick Shapiro (@zBoratory), about California’s new indoor heat rules, the exclusion of prisons, and what we can do about it

(hint: it includes closing prisons)

@UclaHeatLab @Carceral_ECO @UCLAlifesci @UCLALabor

[UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy @luskinhistory]

Finally, we contemplate the future of thermal inequity and potential solutions to mitigate its effects.

Full Episode Here: https://t.co/0BRyYyDJlZ

[The Guardian @guardian]

Delhi temperature hits 52.9C, shattering India’s national record https://t.co/MiOT5tjZm0

[Travis Longcore @travislongcore]

2-year post-doc opportunity in #spatial #health #extremeheat and #shade research using #bigdata with me at @UCLAIoES with @VKellyTurner and @Sahar_drk. See link for details and application https://t.co/DR8SrLpsTD pls RT. Image from previous work https://t.co/uMdeOsl5jm

[Kelly Turner @VKellyTurner]

Join @JenniVanos @ArianeMiddel and I as we discuss why #shade is the essential solution for schoolyards @LuskinCenter

[Kelly Turner @VKellyTurner]

Looking forward to having great conversations about Heat with this group of rockstars @berggruenInst organized by @bhar_venkat

[Zoe Hamstead @zoe_hamstead]

grateful to be among heat scholars in LA, thinking thru heat health, thermal attunement, and our future on an unbearably hot planet. thanks to @berggruenInst @UclaHeatLab @bhar_venkat

[Niko Kommenda @niko_tinius]

NEW: We went to Kolkata, India, to document how heat waves hit the most underprivileged communities hardest. Complex architectural problems overlap with basic issues of space and resources — 9 people sleep in one room, and A/C would just blow hot air into neighboring homes

[Prof. Katharine Hayhoe @KHayhoe]

What's truly preventing climate action? It's not them, or me, or you: it’s much bigger than that. It's the companies who hold the balance of power & wealth in this world. As @MaryHeglar says so powerfully, (source: https://t.co/e1MDOIAyQM)

[Atlantic Council's Climate Resilience Center @ACClimateCenter]

Extreme heat is a public health crisis, and our team is advancing science-backed solutions to protect people's health and wellbeing as global temperatures rise. This year, we advanced key work to respond to the dangerous health impacts of extreme heat. https://t.co/AZPNJzCzzC

[Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell]

Great to see "If the Sky Were Orange" @BlantonMusuem featured in @nytimes year-end Climate Forward newsletter.

https://t.co/ZLRO7PKhxI

[Bharat Venkat @bhar_venkat]

@UclaHeatLab’s study on why and how food truck workers are exposed to extreme heat—and what we can do about it—featured on @NBCLA!

So proud of the students in my lab! (Video at the link)

@CEMO_EJ4LA @UCLA

https://t.co/Qf1Ml5rhXO