Digital Desk: Heat waves and climate change - Action News 5
Digital Desk: Heat waves and climate change
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - With weeks to go until summer’s official start, many regions of the United States have already experienced oppressive heat waves that, due to climate change, are only expected to grow more severe.
Extreme heat is not just a climate issue, it’s a major public health crisis disproportionately affecting communities of color and those with low incomes.
Alonzo Plough, chief science officer and vice president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, joins Sydney Gray on the digital desk to discuss the effect of rising temperatures and extreme heat on public health and health equity.
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