From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernici, and this is the Daily.

This summer, an unrelenting key wave has taken a devastating toll and has put this year

on track to be the hottest ever recorded.

Today, my colleagues Coral Devon Port and Dana Smith, on what it means to live in this

new normal, where extreme heat now threatens our way of life and even our very lives.

It's Thursday, August 10th.

Coral, welcome back to the show.

I am so happy to be back with you guys.

So Coral, you cover climate change and climate policy for the times, and of course this summer

there's been this intense heat wave going on for weeks and weeks, soaring, ER visits,

even some deaths.

You set out to understand something kind of different about the extreme heat.

It's economic cost.

Tell me about that.

So yeah, I'm kind of obsessed with being able to put price tags on the cost of climate

change to the economy, to people's pocketbooks.

What is the effect of heat on how much work gets done in the United States?

On worker productivity, on how much work is lost, on how much pay is lost, I sort of feel

like I'm a climate economic detective.

And Coral, why were you obsessed by this question?

Well, I think that a lot of people when they hear about climate change, it's just this

giant existential threat, and it's sort of hard to wrap your head around, and it's sort

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