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CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #211, DECEMBER 30, 2024. Compiled by Dick Bennett.
· 'The heat will
kill you first': Author tracks climate crisis in real time
Climate reporter Jeff Goodell says, to reverse the rapid rise in global
temperatures, "the most …
‘The Heat Will Kill You First’ is a chilling book — and a warning
· ·Extreme
heat will smother the South from Arizona to Florida
'The Heat Will Kill You First': How extreme heat will change the world
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched
Planet by Jeff Goodell.
Back Bay Books,, 2023. 416.
INSTANT NEW YORK
TIMES BESTSELLER | SELECTED AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
NPR, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, AND THE ECONOMIST | FINALIST
FOR THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY’S HELEN BERNSTEIN
AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM, AND THE PEN/E.O. WILSON AWARD FOR LITERARY
SCIENCE WRITING.
New York Times best-selling journalist Jeff Goodell presents a
"masterful, bracing" (David Wallace-Wells) examination of the impact
that temperature rise will have on our lives and on our planet, offering a
vital new perspective on where we are headed, how we can prepare, and what is
at stake if we fail to act.
The world is waking up
to a new reality: wildfires are now seasonal in California, the
Northeast is getting less and less snow each winter, and the ice sheets in the
Arctic and Antarctica are melting fast. Heat is the first order threat
that drives all other impacts of the climate crisis. And as the
temperature rises, it is revealing fault lines in our governments, our
politics, our economy, and our values. . . . The hotter it gets, the deeper and
wider our fault lines will open.
The Heat Will Kill You First is about the extreme ways in which our
planet is already changing. It is about why spring is coming a few weeks
earlier and fall is coming a few weeks later and the impact that will have on
everything from our food supply to disease outbreaks. It is about what will
happen to our lives and our communities when typical summer days in Chicago or
Boston go from 90° F to 110°F. . . .
Jeff Goodell is the author of six previous books, including The
Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized
World, which was a New York Times Critics Top Book of 2017. He
has covered climate change for more than two decades at Rolling Stone
and discussed climate and energy issues on NPR, MSNBC,
CNN, CNBC, ABC, NBC, Fox News and The Oprah Winfrey Show. He is
a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow.
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