2024-09-17
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You've heard the news.
Here's what to make of it.
My name is Eric Klinenberg.
I'm a professor of sociology at New York University.
I've been studying and thinking about heat for a long time.
And here we are in September and there's record setting heat waves on the West Coast.
It is hot, hot, hot out there and it is going to only get hotter.
Today, Phoenix hit a record 100th straight.
Day of triple digit temperatures.
So we are seeing heat waves that come more frequently, last longer and that reach higher temperatures.
And a surprising thing that most Americans don't know is that in this country, in typical years, heat waves kill more people than hurricanes, tornadoes and floods combined.
Heat waves are tricky disasters because they're invisible.
Most of us probably have a camera ready image of a hurricane or a tornado or a flood in our mind.
But if you close your eyes and try to picture a heat wave, you probably draw a blank.