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Episode 17: Life During Climate Change

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Heat Waves Do Kill

Temperatures are higher than ever before, but i fail to see where this is necessarily dire or fatal. Yes, the key is the humidity factor. Your body can't sweat out when the air around it contains a certain amount of moisture. Even just two degrees celsius will cause hundreds of millions, if not billions, of people to be unable to spend time outside. In summer months, at four degrees, that heat wave that i just mentioned in europe, which killed over two thousand people a day, would become a normal summer in Europe. And so as things get hotter, the need for air conditioning is going to increase. But with how cheap coal and oil is on its way

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