But the global pandemic will make dealing with extreme heat even more challenging. Rising temperatures haven’t slowed with the rise of COVID-19.
Heat waves truly are the “silent killer”: much more lethal yet rarely commanding the same attention of more visibly devastating disasters like tropical storms or hurricanes. Join us as we make a major announcement on addressing extreme heat, followed by an interactive dialogue – using the power of visual storytelling and humor with cartoonists from The New Yorker – to reveal the impacts of this growing public health crisis.Įven before coronavirus spiraled into a global pandemic, extreme heat was killing more people than any other natural disaster-and is expected to affect more than 3.5 billion people globally in the coming decades as each passing year sets a new bar for the hottest on record.
