Here's how Barbie's Malibu Dreamhouse would need to be redesigned to survive as California gets even warmer
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Barbie's home may be a Dreamhouse, but as her state of California continues to experience a brutal heat wave sending temperatures to the triple digits, it may not be a dream setup for long. But there is a way to help her thrive – as well as the billions of others in the world.
Nonprofit climate science organization Climate Central released a set of graphics on Wednesday showcasing how Barbie's Dreamhouse – and other homes – can be redesigned to adapt to increasing global temperatures and the extreme weather that comes with it.
California, where Barbie's home is based, has been facing an onslaught of brutal weather over the past year – severe drought that encapsulated the majority of the state, back-to-back deadly atmospheric rivers that caused massive floods, and now, extreme heat. And these are problems that aren't going away anytime soon. As humans continue to heavily burn fossil fuels, the gases emitted in that process will continue to fill the atmosphere, trapping the heat from the sun and turning Barbie's Dreamhouse into an Easy Bake Oven.
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