Webinar: Health Risks of Extreme Heat and How to Build Resilience

Please join Citizens' Climate Lobby for this upcoming webinar. While the Denver Chapter is not organizing the event, we’re helping spread the word to CCL chapters across the state. Please register here to receive the event zoom link and reminders directly from the organizers. Note that our Meetup group will not be sending out attendance information. Additional details are below.

It’s not in your imagination – Colorado is becoming significantly warmer:

Over the last five years, multiple Colorado cities and towns broke heat records, including Colorado Springs with 52 days over 90 degrees in 2020, Pueblo with 99 days over 90 degrees in 2020, and Grand Junction with 94 days over 90 degrees in 2024.

In 2023 the US had a record number of heat-related deaths – 2,300 people lost their lives, and this is likely an undercount.

Risk factors:

• While everyone is at risk, high heat is particularly dangerous for the elderly, pregnant women and fetuses, children, and persons with underlying medical conditions, especially those with no access to air conditioning or other means of staying cool.

In this webinar, we’ll discuss:

• The health risks of high heat for various groups and activities, plus signs and symptoms of heat stress and other heat-related conditions.
• How heat affects cardiac, brain, kidney, and other organ functions, and impacts mental health.
• Ways health care professionals, individuals, and communities can help build resilience against the health effects of high temperatures.
• The importance for health care providers, policy makers and the general public in the face of projections for increasing extreme heat related to climate change.

Hear from a panel of physicians trained on effects of extreme heat on human health:

• Dr. Joanne Leovy, Nevada Clinicians for Climate Action
• Dr. Logan Harper, Healthy Air and Water Colorado
• Drs. Lori and Rob Byron, Montana Health Professionals for a Healthy Climate and Citizens’ Climate Lobby Health Action Team

Please click here to register. We will not be sending additional event logistics or links through this meetup listing.