This is on the media's midweek podcast. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

New York this week is experiencing a stifling heat wave.

An excessive heat warning was expanded in North Carolina.

A heat advisory was issued for Palm Beach County.

Residents of DC are seeing triple digit highs. Across the country and across the globe

summers have been unseasonably and scarily hot for so long that for

our midweek podcast we're airing a segment we recorded last summer, which is very much like this summer.

This summer feels like a page torn from the Book of Revelation.

Here in the United States, 170 million people are under heat alert.

The world has entered the age of global boiling.

Climate scientists say it's virtually certain.

July 2023, be Earth's hottest month on record.

This heat wave would have been virtually impossible if humans had not warmed the planet

by burning fossil fuels.

The danger of extreme heat can be hard to grasp unless we're burned by it.

In Arizona last summer, the temperature soared to 110 degrees for 31 days straight, transforming normal

sidewalks into massive stovetops. The pavement and sidewalk can heat up to

150 plus degrees and that can cause second and third

degree burns if you're not careful. Meanwhile in parts of Florida the ocean

might look as blue as ever but the temperature is positively steamy.

The water temperatures are so high in the Florida Keys that they are endangering our

precious coral reef.

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