The Impact of Climate Change on the East Coast

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The East Coast is dealing with smoke from a wildfire in Alberta. "It just shows that there's, you know, climate change is not something that you're going to escape or anyone's going to escape by sort of moving to a different place," says author David Frum. The term extreme heat suggests ranges of heat that are beyond what we're historically used to and even beyond what climate models have suggested our future could be.

For the second time this month, huge sections of the US are blanketed by wildfire smoke. Vox’s Rebecca Leber and climate journalist Jeff Goodell say we’re gonna have to get used to it.

This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Miles Bryan, Hady Mawajdeh, and Amanda Lewellyn, engineered by Michael Raphael, and hosted by Noel King.

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