Climate journalist Jeff Goodell speaks on heat safety as extreme heat waves continue to raise temperatures.
July 18, 2023, 12:56 PMA person cools off at the Piazza del Popolo, during a heatwave across Italy, as temperatures are expected to rise further in the coming days, in Rome, Italy July 18, 2023.Jeff Goodell, a climate journalist, published a new book "The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet," that examines how damaging the increased heat waves are for people's health.
So, it is the large scale driver of all these big changes, and it's also the micro killer --invisible force that is most deadly to you as a person. A wet bulb temperature of 95 degrees…you can basically think of it as a sunny, humid day at 95 degrees. If you are out in that for very long and do any kind of exercise or movement around your, you will rapidly head into heat stroke land.
START HERE: Well, and in fact, you've described your book is like it's not just doomerism, it's a survival guide for this new era that we're all inhabiting right now. I mean, if we're looking for survival tips. And I'm serious, are there practical things that we should be doing? Not just like write your congressmen and like try to get less CO2.
GOODELL: Exactly. And there's a lot to be done with checking in on vulnerable people. A lot of heat deaths can be easily avoided by better education about heat, about ranking heat waves..so that we know the severity of them because they're invisible. We don't see them. They're not like hurricanes where you can you see the trees bending in half. The risks are very visible. With heat, they're not.
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