Brace your­self for heat­wave ​“Lucifer.” Dan­ger­ous dead­ly heat­waves may soon be so com­mon that we give them names, just like hur­ri­canes. This is one of the dra­mat­ic con­se­quences of just a few degrees rise in aver­age temperatures.

Also com­ing: Mas­sive heat ​“blobs” that form in the oceans and dam­age marine life, and pow­er­ful wind­storms called ​“dere­chos” pum­mel­ing the Midwest. 

Plus, are fun­gal pathogens adapt­ing to hot­ter tem­per­a­tures and breach­ing the 98.6 F ther­mal bar­ri­er that keeps them from infect­ing us?

Guests:

• Kathy Baugh­man McLeod – direc­tor and senior vice pres­i­dent of the Adri­enne Arsht-Rock­e­feller Foun­da­tion Resilience Cen­ter at The Atlantic Council 
• Pip­pa Moore – Marine ecol­o­gist at New­cas­tle Uni­ver­si­ty in the U.K.
• Ted Der­ouin – Michi­gan farmer 
• Jeff Dukes – Ecol­o­gist and direc­tor of Pur­due Cli­mate Change Research Cen­ter at Pur­due University. 
• Arturo Casade­vall – Mol­e­c­u­lar micro­bi­ol­o­gist and immu­nol­o­gist at the Johns Hop­kins School of Medicine