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🗓️ 17 July 2024
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0:00.0 | This is on the media's midweek podcast. I'm Brooke Gladstone. |
0:04.0 | New York this week is experiencing a stifling heat wave. |
0:08.0 | An excessive heat warning was expanded in North Carolina. |
0:11.0 | A heat advisory was issued for Palm Beach County. |
0:15.2 | Residents of DC are seeing triple digit highs. Across the country and across the globe |
0:21.9 | summers have been unseasonably and scarily hot for so long that for |
0:28.0 | our midweek podcast we're airing a segment we recorded last summer, which is very much like this summer. |
0:36.1 | This summer feels like a page torn from the Book of Revelation. |
0:40.1 | Here in the United States, 170 million people are under heat alert. |
0:44.0 | The world has entered the age of global boiling. |
0:48.0 | Climate scientists say it's virtually certain. |
0:51.0 | July 2023, be Earth's hottest month on record. |
0:56.5 | This heat wave would have been virtually impossible if humans had not warmed the planet |
1:01.7 | by burning fossil fuels. |
1:03.0 | The danger of extreme heat can be hard to grasp unless we're burned by it. |
1:08.0 | In Arizona last summer, the temperature soared to 110 degrees for 31 days straight, transforming normal |
1:15.4 | sidewalks into massive stovetops. The pavement and sidewalk can heat up to |
1:20.8 | 150 plus degrees and that can cause second and third |
1:24.5 | degree burns if you're not careful. Meanwhile in parts of Florida the ocean |
1:29.3 | might look as blue as ever but the temperature is positively steamy. |
1:34.0 | The water temperatures are so high in the Florida Keys that they are endangering our |
1:37.8 | precious coral reef. |
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