Ryan Lear on WNYC and now our climate story of the week which we do every

Tuesday on the show on a day when it's considered possible that one place in the

United States might break the all-time heat record for anywhere on Earth.

Have you heard this? A high temperature of 128 degrees

was recorded on Saturday and Sunday at Death Valley National Park in Eastern California,

one visitor on a motorcycle, died Saturday from heat exposure, or he was there on a motorcycle trip,

and another person was hospitalized.

By some estimates, 130 is the hottest temperature

ever recorded on Earth a few years ago, also in Death Valley Valley and they may hit that again today.

Meanwhile in Texas, Hurricane Barrel made landfall in southern Texas and Louisiana at its peak.

That hurricane was a record chatter in category 5 storm,

but has since been reduced, thankfully,

as it hit land to a far less powerful tropical depression. but at its peak, the reason it was said to have broken

a record is that it was the strongest hurricane in history for this early in the hurricane season, another indication of global warming.

Beryl became the first storm in the Atlantic hurricane season to make landfall in the U.S.

after tearing through the Caribbean.

The National Weather Service has also

issued heat advisories for today through tomorrow for most of our New York City,

Greater New York City area.

So all of this is going on, and I know weather does not

equal climate, but when there is weather in certain patterns, it does it at least indicates climate so let's talk

about that relationship in these instances joining us now to discuss is Bob

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