I want to give you full disclosure.

When I sat down to record today's podcast,

I was feeling a little sweaty.

No, I wasn't nervous, but the thing is, even after showering,

I was still feeling the effects of a workout in the hot Georgia sun

I was finding it really hard to cool down

So as it often happens our conversation ended up starting off with the weather.

What is the weather like where you are today?

Today it's rainy, so it's been raining a lot, but yesterday, you know, it was a muggy low 90s.

You know, for a long time talking about the weather was seen sort of as small talk,

something superficial, something to

bring on Dr. Gora Basu to talk just about that.

Specifically extreme heat, because it seems to be affecting so many parts of the country right now.

That includes my home base of Atlanta and near Boston where Dr. Basu works as a physician, a Harvard Medical School assistant professor, and a climate

change expert.

I was saying about it this week.

My son is in a baseball camp right now, and so seven years old very excited it was really hot

yesterday and they were outdoors all day and he had a great time but he came home and

he was really flush and was actually really describing the impact of the heat yesterday.

Here's the thing I've always struggled with. You know, getting flushed, sweaty on a hot summer day, that could be seen as just sort of standard

summer fair.

And it is.

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