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Earth911 Podcast: USAFacts Shares U.S. Climate Data Insights
Earth911 Podcast: USAFacts Shares U.S. Climate Data Insights
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Length:
23 minutes
Released:
Nov 8, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Most of us still struggle to get our heads around the science of climate change, but the impacts are clearly felt almost every day somewhere in the United States. In June, 2021, USAFacts reports, 97 million people in the United States experienced hotter than average temperatures, including record-shattering heat in the West. In August, the data shows 84.8 million Americans — at third of the country - were still suffering from higher than average temperatures. Understanding how persistent but distributed the impact of the climate crisis is helps us internalize the need to make changes in our life. Our guest, Tanveer Ali, is a data visualization analyst at USAFacts. The Bellevue, Wash-based non-profit, founded by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, recently introduced a convenient way to keep tabs on the consequences of the climate crisis, the Climate in the U.S. experience. It provides regularly updated visualizations of a variety of U.S. climate statistics and useful insights into how life is changing for our neighbors. See the dashboard at https://usafacts.org/issues/climate.
Released:
Nov 8, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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