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One Thing: Welcome to Hot World Summer

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How to Avoid a Heat Wave

Should we be naming these heat waves like we do hurricanes with that makes some kind of difference in the public imagination? That's an interesting debate that's ongoing they've they've started this already in Europe Italy named the last two big heat waves after mythological figures including Cerberus the three headed dog that's in Dante's Inferno. The idea is that if you alert people the way you name a hurricane and say this is bad here's the number you attach a score to it we have the data to show that that can absolutely save lives around the world so that will probably be. Exactly exactly. Look we are one of the strengths of our species is the ability to normalize pain and adapt to horrible

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