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Extreme Heat: The Silent Killer

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Climate One

Social Sciences, Science, News, News Commentary, Earth Sciences

4.7585 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Extreme heat causes more deaths than any other weather-related hazard in the U.S., wreaking quiet havoc on the health and economic well-being of billions of people across the world. But it’s rarely given the same billing or resources as other, more dramatic, natural disasters. Because of racist and discriminatory housing and development practices, extreme heat also disproportionately impacts poorer and minority communities. Recognizing a growing need for local responses to a global problem, the mayors of Miami-Dade, Athens, Greece and Freetown, Sierra Leone recently announced they are appointing the world’s first Chief Heat Officers. How can we prepare for and address the impacts of extreme heat? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:35.1

This is Climate One. I'm Greg Dalton. It's the middle of summer and it's hot, really hot.

0:40.0

Last week's heat wave across the western United States busted more records, a trend that doesn't seem to be going away.

0:42.2

Some places are used to triple digits, but in other places, lower temperatures can still

0:46.7

be deadly.

0:48.2

Despite the serious threats extreme heat presents to our health and economy, we tend to perceive

0:52.6

intense heat differently than other climate disasters.

0:55.7

They don't have the drama that a flood or a hurricane has. It just doesn't have the visual nature.

1:03.0

A Miami doctor says heat impacts can be cumulative and slow moving.

1:07.0

So it's not simply that you're going to get a heat stroke and passing out.

1:18.3

That's the worst portion of heat, but it's the earlier insults that many of our physicians are missing.

1:23.0

Meanwhile, farmers in the nation's heartland are trying to figure out what their future holds.

1:32.5

Agriculture is not going to go away in these regions because they're good soils and they're highly productive lands, but it probably becomes we grow something else.

1:35.2

And what that else is, we don't know at this point.

1:39.4

Climate One's empowering conversations connect all aspects of the climate emergency.

1:42.7

Today, we explore the impacts of extreme heat.

1:48.3

Kathy Buffman McLeod is director of the Atlantic Council's Adrian Arst Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center.

1:50.0

Last year, the center created the Extreme Heat Resilience Alliance, which aims to build a network

1:54.6

of city leaders and experts to tackle the growing threat of extreme urban heat around

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