Sorry, Honey, It’s Too Hot for Camp (Podcast) – Atlantic Radio
Summer is getting too hot and dangerous, killing the childhood of our imaginations.
A heat dome in Texas. Wildfire smoke polluting the air in the East and Midwest. The signs are everywhere that our children’s summers will look nothing like our own. In this episode, we talk with the climate writer Emma Pattee about how hot is too hot to go outside. The research is thin and the misconceptions are many—but experts are quickly looking into nuances of how and why children suffer in the heat, so we can prepare for a future that’s already here…
July 4, 2023: The Hottest Day in over 125,000 Years
“We have never seen anything like this before”
– Carlo Buontempo, director of Europe’s Copernicus Climate Change Service quoted in the Washington Post, 07-06-2023…