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The Case of the Killer Heat
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In this episode, we explore the growing impact of heat on people and the planet. We talk to scientists and "climate detectives" trying to hold the perpetrators of this unprecedented global temperature increase accountable. Leah and Katharine speak with Neza Xiuhtecutli , executive director of the Farmworker Association of Florida ; Kate Marvel , climate science writer and physicist at Columbia University and NASA ; and Richard Heede , co-founder and director of the Climate Accountability Institute . Kate mentions the very first climate attribution study , which links human activity to the deadly 2003 European heat wave. Leah references two big lawsuits using attribution science to hold…