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How To Protect Ourselves From Extreme Heat — And Our Planet From Climate Change
A heat advisory sign is shown along US highway 190 during a heat wave in Death Valley National Park in Death Valley, California, on July 16, 2023. Ronda Churchill/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A heat advisory sign is shown along US highway 190 during a heat wave in Death Valley National Park in Death Valley, California, on July 16, 2023. Ronda Churchill/AFP via Getty Images
We know that climate change is making all sorts of extreme weather events more likely all around the globe. So what can we do about that?
In this episode, NPR's Allison Aubrey gives us tips on how to avoid heat-related illnesses when temperatures soar to dangerous levels.
And we hear from a climate researcher about what steps we would need to take on a global scale to try and bring temperatures down. In participating regions, you'll also hear a local news segment to help you make sense of what's going on in your community.
Email us at considerthis@npr.org.
This episode was produced by Mia Venkat, Kaity Kline and Alejandra Márquez Janse. It was edited William Troop, Jane Greenhalgh and Christopher Intagliata. Our executive producer is Sami Yenigun.
Related Knowledge Center: Climate science
What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.