Europe Is Burning
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The continent's deadly heat wave is only the tip of the melting iceberg.
Guest: Henry Grabar
Host: Lizzie O'Leary
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| 1:08.0 | When I got Slates Henry Gabbara on the line on Wednesday, he sounded extremely relieved. |
| 1:13.5 | I am in Paris and it is a very seasonal and reasonable 75 degrees. |
| 1:20.0 | Just a few days ago, Henry was in the middle of Europe's devastating heat wave. He was in Normandy |
| 1:26.0 | and the French countryside, staying in his great-grandfather's house. Monday and Tuesday were the hottest |
| 1:32.0 | days. It was well above 100 degrees on both of those days. And it was so hot that you felt like |
| 1:42.7 | you could not be outside for more than 20 or 30 minutes without starting to feel |
| 1:48.4 | very unpleasant. And I'm talking outside in the shade. Going into the sun, he says, was just |
| 1:56.7 | intolerable. And all around him, it felt like the countryside was roasting. |
| 2:02.7 | There was this kind of smell, like all the sort of like the scent of the grass and the trees and |
| 2:09.3 | the crops and the fields. It all seemed to be some more pronounced somehow as if like everything |
| 2:15.2 | was like slowly cooking at some level. Like there was some kind of molecular reaction that was |
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