Scientist Gavin Schmidt says we need a scale that registers in the human psyche. People are people's experience of temperature in their local environments is very different to the planet's experience, he says. "I remember the mental adjust ments i had to make to embrace what was going at bu gaso"
What is a heat wave? On this explainer, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice explore the massive heat waves that have been sweeping the world with Director of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Gavin Schmidt.
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