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Phoenix experienced 31 straight days with temperatures of 110 degrees or higher. July was likely the hottest month on record, globally. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption
Phoenix experienced 31 straight days with temperatures of 110 degrees or higher. July was likely the hottest month on record, globally.
Mario Tama/Getty ImagesJuly was almost certainly the hottest month, globally, on record. It was also a month in which many lives were upended by weather-related disasters — the sort of disasters that are increasingly likely as climate change continues.
So what do the people who lived through those disasters make of all this?
We asked Dr. Frank LoVecchio, an emergency room doctor at Valleywise Health Medical Center in Phoenix, Ariz., about trying to keep people alive who spent too much time out in the deadly heat.
And Michelle Eddleman McCormick, general manager at the Marshfield Village Store in Vermont, about living through extreme flooding.
And Will Nicholls, of the Cree Nation of Mistissini, editor-in-chief of The Nation magazine, about how historic wildfires in northern Quebec have affected his community.
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This episode was produced by Connor Donevan and Emma Klein. It was edited by William Troop. Our executive producer is Sami Yenigun.
