Heat Advisory Takes Effect As Triple Digit Temperatures Return

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CBS New York | Vanessa Murdock
August 11, 2021

Jason Smerdon, a climate scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, says we’re going in the wrong direction.

“The number of heat waves we’re experiencing now will continue to increase with increasing greenhouse gas emissions,”‘ he said.

He urges we can’t forget “heat waves beget droughts, beget fires.”

“All of these things are connected,” he added.  Read More