What's a Few Degrees?

Published: Oct. 19, 2020, 4:01 p.m.

b'Brace yourself for heatwave \\u201cLucifer.\\u201d Dangerous deadly heatwaves may soon be so common that we give them names, just like hurricanes. This is one of the dramatic consequences of just a few degrees rise in average temperatures.\\nAlso coming: Massive heat \\u201cblobs\\u201d that form in the oceans and damage marine life, and powerful windstorms called \\u201cderechos\\u201d pummeling the Midwest.\\xa0\\nPlus, are fungal pathogens adapting to hotter temperatures and breaching the 98.6 F thermal barrier that keeps them from infecting us?\\nGuests:\\n\\n\\n Kathy Baughman McLeod\\xa0\\u2013\\xa0director and senior vice president of the\\xa0Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center\\xa0at The Atlantic Council\\n\\n\\nPippa Moore\\xa0\\u2013\\xa0Marine ecologist at Newcastle University in the U.K.\\n\\n\\nTed Derouin\\xa0\\u2013\\xa0Michigan farmer\\n\\n\\nJeff Dukes\\xa0\\u2013\\xa0Ecologist and director of Purdue Climate Change Research Center at Purdue University.\\n\\n\\n Arturo Casadevall\\xa0\\u2013\\xa0Molecular microbiologist and immunologist at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine\\n\\n\\xa0\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'