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Americans Are Underestimating the Dangers of Extreme Heat
YSE Senior Research Scientist Jennifer Marlon breaks down what’s driving the perception gap between rising temperatures and public risk — and it’s not just lack of information.
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In The Media
What this desert city can teach the world about tackling heat deaths
People don't realise this is not the same heat that we were experiencing 10 years ago, it is actually worse, because in many cases nighttime temperatures are not cooling off.
Jennifer R. Marlon
Senior Research Scientist, Lecturer, and Director of Data Science; Executive Director, Yale Center for Geospatial Solutions; Lecturer, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
People don't realise this is not the same heat that we were experiencing 10 years ago, it is actually worse, because in many cases nighttime temperatures are not cooling off.
Jennifer R. Marlon
Senior Research Scientist, Lecturer, and Director of Data Science; Executive Director, Yale Center for Geospatial Solutions; Lecturer, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
An impenetrable steel ‘Black Box’ will record ‘every step’ humanity takes toward catastrophe
Climate change is not like a saber-toothed tiger; climate change is a chronic problem that gets progressively worse over decades.
Anthony Leiserowitz
JoshAni-TomKat Professor of Climate Communication; Director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (YPCCC)
Climate change is not like a saber-toothed tiger; climate change is a chronic problem that gets progressively worse over decades.
Anthony Leiserowitz
JoshAni-TomKat Professor of Climate Communication; Director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (YPCCC)
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