Big Picture Science - What’s a Few Degrees?
Brace yourself for
heatwave “Lucifer.” Dangerous deadly heatwaves may soon be so common that we
give them names, just like hurricanes. This is one of the dramatic consequences
of just a few degrees rise in average temperatures.
Also coming: Massive
heat “blobs” that form in the oceans and damage marine life, and powerful
windstorms called “derechos” pummeling the Midwest.
Plus, are fungal
pathogens adapting to hotter temperatures and breaching the 98.6 F thermal
barrier that keeps them from infecting us?
Guests:
- Kathy Baughman McLeod – director and senior vice president of the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center at The Atlantic Council
- Pippa Moore – Marine ecologist at Newcastle University in the U.K.
- Ted Derouin – Michigan farmer
- Jeff Dukes – Ecologist and director of Purdue Climate Change Research Center at Purdue University.
- Arturo Casadevall – Molecular microbiologist and immunologist at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
This repeat podcast originally aired on October 19, 2020
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