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   PHOENIX (AP) — Hundreds of blue, green and grey tents are   
   pitched under the sun’s searing rays in downtown Phoenix, a   
   jumble of flimsy canvas and plastic along dusty sidewalks. Here,   
   in the hottest big city in America, thousands of homeless people   
   swelter as the summer’s triple digit temperatures arrive.   
      
   The stifling tent city has ballooned amid pandemic-era evictions   
   and surging rents that have dumped hundreds more people onto the   
   sizzling streets that grow eerily quiet when temperatures peak   
   in the midafternoon. A heat wave earlier this month brought   
   temperatures of up to 114 degrees (45.5 Celsius) - and it’s only   
   June. Highs reached 118 degrees (47.7 Celsius) last year.   
      
   “During the summer, it’s pretty hard to find a place at night   
   that’s cool enough to sleep without the police running you off,”   
   said Chris Medlock, a homeless Phoenix man known on the streets   
   as “T-Bone” who carries everything he owns in a small backpack   
   and often beds down in a park or a nearby desert preserve to   
   avoid the crowds.   
      
   “If a kind soul could just offer a place on their couch indoors   
   maybe more people would live,” Medlock said at a dining room   
   where homeless people can get some shade and a free meal.   
      
   Excessive heat causes more weather-related deaths in the United   
   States than hurricanes, flooding and tornadoes combined.   
      
   Around the country, heat contributes to some 1,500 deaths   
   annually, and advocates estimate about half of those people are   
   homeless.   
      
   Temperatures are rising nearly everywhere because of global   
   warming, combining with brutal drought in some places to create   
   more intense, frequent and longer heat waves. The past few   
   summers have been some of the hottest on record.   
      
   Just in the county that includes Phoenix, at least 130 homeless   
   people were among the 339 individuals who died from heat-   
   associated causes in 2021.   
      
   “If 130 homeless people were dying in any other way it would be   
   considered a mass casualty event,” said Kristie L. Ebi, a   
   professor of global health at the University of Washington.   
      
   It’s a problem that stretches across the United States, and now,   
   with rising global temperatures, heat is no longer a danger just   
   in places like Phoenix.   
      
   This summer will likely bring above-normal temperatures over   
   most land areas worldwide, according to the latest seasonal   
   forecast map produced by the International Research Institute   
   for Climate and Society at Columbia University.   
      
   Last summer, a heat wave blasted the normally temperate U.S.   
   Northwest and had Seattle residents sleeping in their yards and   
   on roofs, or fleeing to hotels with air conditioning. Across the   
   state, several people presumed to be homeless died outdoors,   
   including a man slumped behind a gas station.   
      
   In Oregon, officials opened 24-hour cooling centers for the   
   first time. Volunteer teams fanned out with water and popsicles   
   to homeless encampments on Portland’s outskirts.   
      
   A quick scientific analysis concluded last year’s Pacific   
   Northwest heat wave was virtually impossible without human-   
   caused climate change adding several degrees and toppling   
   previous records.   
      
   Even Boston is exploring ways to protect diverse neighborhoods   
   like its Chinatown, where population density and few shade trees   
   help drive temperatures up to 106 degrees (41 Celsius) some   
   summer days. The city plans strategies like increasing tree   
   canopy and other kinds of shade, using cooler materials for   
   roofs, and expanding its network of cooling centers during heat   
   waves.   
      
   It’s not just a U.S. problem. An Associated Press analysis last   
   year of a dataset published by the Columbia University’s climate   
   school found exposure to extreme heat has tripled and now   
   affects about a quarter of the world’s population.   
      
   This spring, an extreme heat wave gripped much of Pakistan and   
   India, where homelessness is widespread due to discrimination   
   and insufficient housing. The high in Jacobabad, Pakistan near   
   the border with India hit 122 degrees (50 Celsius) in May.   
      
   Dr. Dileep Mavalankar, who heads the Indian Institute of Public   
      
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