Jul 3, 2026, 2:21 AM

From Colleen Hagerty:

"...Heat is a particularly deadly disaster

As Jeff Goodell writes in The Heat Will Kill You First, “When heat comes, it's invisible. It doesn't bend tree branches or blow hair across your face to let you know it's arrived. The ground doesn’t shake. It just surrounds you and works on you in ways that you can’t anticipate or control.”

The lack of fanfare that accompanies heat is part of the reason it is so dangerous and deadly. A 2024 Associated Press report found excessive heat killed more than 2,300 people in the US during the preceding summer; the author and others experts broadly agree that this is likely an undercount. Last month's European heat waves have already been linked to 1,300 deaths..."

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$Heat is a particularly deadly disaster As Jeff Goodell writes in The Heat Will Kill You First, “When heat comes, it's invisible. It doesn't bend tree branches or blow hair across your face to let you know it's arrived. The ground doesn’t shake. It just surrounds you and works on you in ways that you can’t anticipate or control.” The lack of fanfare that accompanies heat is part of the reason it is so dangerous and deadly. A 2024 Associated Press report found excessive heat killed more than 2,300 people in the US during the preceding summer; the author and others experts broadly agree that this is likely an undercount. Last month's European heat waves have already been linked to 1,300 deaths, and one preliminary attribution assessment found this number might be just a fraction of the true toll. This risk is why heat warnings bear repeating ahead of extreme events, which correlate not only with increased deaths but with hospitalizations and compounding health issues over time.$

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