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Today, Explained

Dry Hot American Summer

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.3 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

As the world heats up, the American West is drier than at any period in the past 1,200 years. But don’t expect people to stop watering their lawns. This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained   Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Some a time ain't what it used to be.

0:02.8

By this point we've grown accustomed to the fires, the dire warnings, even the deaths.

0:11.7

But now roads are melting.

0:13.7

You're so hot in the UK all flights into Luton Airport have to be diverted when the

0:17.9

tarmac actually melted.

0:20.0

We're discovering bodies.

0:21.6

A woman walking on the newly uncovered mud found a barrel with human remains inside.

0:26.7

The person had a gunshot wound and had likely been in the barrel since the late 1970s or early

0:32.2

80s.

0:33.2

There's a ghost town.

0:34.6

Police also believe they are going to find more bodies here because there is no end

0:39.6

in sight to that mega drought that's causing this water level to fall.

0:45.0

But we're still having trouble convincing people to water their lawns less.

0:49.0

That's coming up on today explained.

1:03.9

Today explained to Sean Rommas firm we as a people have a whole lot of differences but

1:07.9

we're all united by our biggest problem, the warming climate.

1:12.4

It's a problem so immense people feel hopeless and helpless to turn the tide.

1:18.4

You got to start somewhere and that somewhere might literally be just outside your front

1:23.1

door.

1:24.1

We have lawns turning brown.

1:25.8

Kaylee Wells covers climate for KCRW public radio in Los Angeles.

1:30.5

Lately she's been covering lawns.

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