Is the Arstrak Initiative a Good Idea?

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The World Meteorological Organization or the WMO, which is the UN agency that sort of coordinates weather data and planning around the world. There's a lot of institutional pushback because there are other tools that other agencies have been trying to use. And so this idea that if you have competing systems, you know, we currently have a very unified sort of agreed upon non politicized approach to the weather.

As devastating heat waves like the recent one in China become more common, we’re going to need new ways of talking about them. Vox’s Neel Dhanesha explains a proposal to name heat waves.

This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.

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