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It's officially summer, and many people in the US are feeling the heat.
From the midwest to the northeast, millions of people are experiencing what the National Weather Service is calling the first major heat wave of the summer, the local heat index.
That's what the weather outside feels like.
Accounting for both air temperature and humidity could reach 105 degrees in some places, according to the NWS.
Highs in the nineties could be seen as far north as Vermont and New Hampshire.
And the rising temperatures are a global problem, notes Vijay Lemay, a climate and health scientist at the Natural Resources Defense.
Council in Pakistan and across South Asia, recorded temperatures in recent years have approached or exceeded 120 degrees fahrenheit.
That's near the limit of tolerability for what the human body can handle.
Not to mention another massive issue.
Impacts of climate change on public health are huge, hugely inequitable around the world, and the climate crisis threatens to widen and worsen existing health disparities both here in the US and elsewhere, especially in the global south.
Lemay also says it's important to remember.
You know, behind all the headlines on climate extremes and broken temperature records, there are real people that are increasingly in harm's way.