We are seeing more of these heat waves. They're becoming more intense, and that's because of climate change. We we have warne up the planet a by about degrees fahrenheit in the last a century or so. But that is ducing these extremes. The number of times youre exceeding 90 degrees fah Fahrenheit has gone up. Now they seem to park and stay like, oh, i'm a cill just as lance. And they don't go anywhere. So gaven, what's up with that? Right?
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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