Even as heat kills more people today than any other extreme weather event, there is still a dangerous cultural lag. Extreme Global, a cellphone app which operates in parts of Europe, provides color-coded details of heat risk and populates a map to guide users to local places they can visit to cool down. Host Martha Raddatz asked if this sort of heat may become the “new normal.” “It’s the beginning of the new normal, with respect. So the latest — the latest research is that there’s not a turning point or a tipping point or a knee in the curve. It’s just going to get hotter and hotter and worse and worse and more and more extreme,” he said.

Source: New York Times June 28, 2024 00:34 UTC