Devastating Heatwaves and Accelerated Warming Rates

It's still spring in parts of the Northern Hemisphere, but the world faces scorching hot temperatures. Summer heat has arrived early, setting records, claiming lives, and expected to get worse. Who's responsible and what should be done about it?

In this episode: 

• Johan Rockström (@jrockstrom), Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research 
• Jeff Goodell (@jeffgoodell), Author of “The Heat Will Kill You First” 

Episode credits:

This episode was produced by Sarí el-Khalili and Khaled Soltan, with Ashish Malhotra, Tamara Khandaker and our host, Malika Bilal.

Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.

Alexandra Locke is the Take’s executive producer, and Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.

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