TDS Tries to Beat the Heat

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Yesterday was the first day of summer. Kids celebrated by running through sprinklers, families broke out their barbecues, and once again, DJ Jazzy Jeff SATs alone on the back of a truck waiting for will to show up. Summer, summer, summer time. Of course, for many Americans, the first day of summer signified something much different. It's hot as balls. The first day of summer has arrived, and it will be a scorcher for tens of millions of Americans.

In the Southwest, temperatures reaching one hundred and twenty degrees.

Forty million people are under a heat warning.

It can get so hot you can actually fry an egg right on the sidewalk.

Yeah, that's how hot it.

Wait, why are we using eggs to tell temperature? Well, I don't understand this.

Like people in Africa are.

Watching this, going we would never do that in Africa. Ah, we don't do such things and we don't like wisting food. And also we don't have sich walks. Yeah, that's a part of it, because we call them pavements, you raisis that's why. But the heat, the heat and having some serious effects. It's causing wildfires. You know, they are heat warnings, and Lebron James is now crying just to keep his face cool.

But most of all, most of all.

The heats is making news lose its mind.

Even at this hour before sunrise, it's already over ninety degrees later today, this playground will be way too hot to touch.

Hey, news guy, I know it's hot, but try not to sound like you're sending secret messages to creeps online.

The playground will be too hot to touch. I repeat, the playground will be too hot to touch. But sorry, you were saying.

We've got our heat gun. I'm gonna check some temperatures right here. The pavement's one hundred and seventy one degrees. This slide is one hundred and eighty five degrees, one hundred and seventy one on this swing, one hundred and forty six degrees, one hundred and seventy five degrees sold.

You know, that's a job that literally only a white.

Reporter could do.

There is no black journalist who'dever agreed to waving any type of gun around in a public space. The station managers like, we need to use this temperature gun to report the heat wave, and he's like, just say you want me to get shot on camera? Just say it, man, I know the ratings are down, just say it. So it's katy too hot for grown men to hang around a playground. But of course, nothing beats the hot weather like a nice swim.

This may be the best thing to cover out of this heatwave, but a bear cooling off in a swimming pool in Bradbury.

I came over with my daughter to visit my father for Father's Day. When I walked in, I saw some footprints when I looked out, and then all of a sudden, the bear came from around the corner and jumped into the pool. And then he continued to play around for about twenty minutes.

Oh it's really cute now, but you know it's gonna be an entire summer of that bear stopping by now, just like bothering you the whole summer, Like, hey, anyone home?

Hey?

Can I use the pool?

Hey?

Hey?

Do you might eat your cat?

You might have made your Yeah, I'm gonna eat your cat. I'm so cute. Ud huhuh.

Things are so bad that America's youth are taking refuge in the strangest of places.

It can be very difficult to find a place to cool off, especially when it is this hot outside. We did find a public library open during some of the hottest hours from twelve to four.

Hey, wait a minute, kid, you aren't allowed to give a hang ten sign if you're not on a surfboard.

Okay, there's rules.

That's like an uber driver saying like all aboard me, Tims, I'd be the captain of this here toyotais and this report only got more, shall we say investigative.

Chelsea Mallinson and Erica Gustavsin have lived together for three years. With temperatures skyrocketing, they had no choice but to get out of the house.

The summers lately have just been horrible and one hundred degree weather, and like she said, with all the windows in front, it's like an oven.

It just bakes us in.

Really, news, these are your weather experts.

Yes, yeah, who is the creepy producer who put this together? No, lady, that was a great take.

Let's try this one on the trampoline.

That's good.

Yeah, that's good. No, it's for the news, Yeah, it's for the news.

Seriously, people, this is ridiculous, you're the news. Isn't anything practical that you can tell us about this heat wave?

If you don't have air conditioning, you go to a friend or neighbor's house with air conditioning, And of course, always remember to stay hydrating.

Finally, something useful, stay hydrated.

There.

Wait, wait a minute, did the heat wave bake that kid into.

A full grown man?

Damn, that is eggs hard.

Get him out of there.

We'll be right back.

Get him out of there.

Europe the continent with the long history of white on white violence. Unfortunately, Europe is not having a good time right now. There's slow war in Ukraine, which is also causing an energy crisis. Italy's prime minister has called it quits. Britain has lost its leadership, which means now they'll have to find another magic spell to turn a dandelion into a prime minister. Plus, for the first time ever, the

The triple digit temperatures that have sparked forest fires and drought conditions here in the States are also taking hold in Europe.

This morning, people are being warned to take cover as deadly heat sweeps across Britain, the National Weather Service issuing the first ever extreme heat warning, with forecast highs of one hundred and five today and tomorrow, hotter than the Sahara Desert and Deli. The scorching heat is bearing down on all of Western Europe, fueling out of control wildfires.

In southwest France, the planes dumped yet more water over wildfires that have burned an area bigger than twenty thousand football fields.

The heat is causing havoc London's Looten Airport and an RAF base in Oxfordshire both being forced to close because the run wise we're melting.

Mama mey sucker blur, bloody bull sweats. The runways in Europe are melting. Did you hear that the runways are melting? You never want to land a plane and hear it go? And what are you even doing that situation? What do you do? Like if the runways melted, where's the plane gonna land in the baby's mouth. That's right, open a baby, please, baby, the plane did your baby?

Ah.

You know, this is one of those situations where you really appreciate how calm a pilot is, you know, because like even when a runway's melting, I bet the pilot's just gonna be there. Like ladies and gentlemen, it seems the airplane is melting as the ground. So uh, how much suggest everyone get back to their seats?

Hold on?

Now seems like a portal to the underworld has opened and we are slowly being sucked by the devil himself. So uh, I'm gonna go ahead and turn it on the fast and seatbuzz, So pack, relax and the flat. But yes, Europe is squorching hot right now, and it's so bad that there were photos going around today of people pouring water in the mouths of the gods at Buckingham Palace.

Yeah.

I mean, if I had to make a suggestion, though, maybe the first thing I would do in a heat wave is lose the ten foot pet covered entirely in fur, or at least filling with ice. It looks like it would be a good cooler, you know, And remember Remember you might be hearing those temperatures in America going like, oh, one hundred degrees. That doesn't sound bad. But remember this heat wave is especially bad for Europe because Europeans are not prepared for this kind of heat. Yeah, they don't

Let's talk about Arizona.

It's the Iran of the United States.

It's also it's also one of the five or.

Six swing states that decide America's general elections. So what makes them tick? What sets Arizona apart? Well, one thing, for instance, is they're dealing with climate change, a crisis that is changing how people out there live their lives. Jibuki on White has more in our series The United Swing States of America.

Wildfires, flash floods in a dramatically shortened cuffing season. Climate change is affecting America, and nowhere more than Phoenix, Arizona.

In Phoenix, they say it's too hot to fly.

Forty four people had to be rescu.

Arizona officials are urging locals to avoid hiking during extreme heat.

So I headed to Arizona to find out for myself just how bad the heat can get. To explain the science behind my sweaty balls, I met with climate expert Brian Stone. Climate change is very much happening today and has been with us for many decades already.

If you are under the age of thirty four.

Today, if every month of your life, if I'm under thirty four.

Every month of your life has been in a climate that is much warmer than we've seen four thousands of years, is that how old you are? And third degree burns like that are becoming the new normal. Here in Phoenix. You're seeing one hundred days a year with temperatures.

Of one hundred degrees.

And there have been many warnings for us that we have in listen to leading up until this point. Right, Yeah, Nellie has been warning us about Phoenix is two thousand and three.

I really don't know anything about.

That hot in her. It's sort of like this pleading cry to the public, like it's getting hot in here, please, yeah, take off all your clothes. Yeah, or we didn't listen. Maybe Brian walked me through some of Phoenix's new climate adaptations, like smooth reflective surfaces and of course landscaping. But the biggest change Arizona is shifting daytime activities tonight. That's right. It's gotten so hot that jogging, hiking, and even construction

Because it's more fun.

We do construction at night at the same work.

But Arizona temperatures are just too hard on the guys, and you're not prepared well hydrated. You're gonna end up in the hospital getting ivs.

Right, figure gross. But when the sun goes down, things at the concrete poor do get a little freaky.

I'll see the guy who's got a vibrator on his back in that concrete liquid and it vibrates the concrete and it goes that's around off the rebar.

He has a vibrator on his back.

That machine right there?

Does he like clean it off before he comes to work, but goil on it?

Right?

I just want to make sure that we're being sanitary, absolutely, but it's not all pleasure in concrete bridges to completion. Working at night can affect cognitive performance and lead to tragic accidents. I can't buy my I think my bone is in there.

Wow.

Climate change hasn't just affected these sex positive village people style jobs. It's also changing the way that people have fun. So I met up with the Arizona Trailblazers Hiking Club for a night hike.

Here's a black light for you. You can use this to try to look and see if there's any critters, scorpions, snakes, what, Yeah, there's lots of wildlife in these in the floor.

Around Sorry repeat that?

Sorry?

What was that?

Scorpions? We can look for them using these black lights.

Okay, first of all terrifying. Second, scorpions glow under black lights. I have some questions.

Why do they glow?

Is it because they're covered in.

I don't believe that's the reason.

And these scorpions were ready to pop off.

He's pointing his tail at you. I think you've really angered him.

Oh my god, I thought he was waving because he's such a little guy. He probably doesn't have venom yet, right.

Oh no, that's the worst. Crying.

The smaller scorpions are more venomous than the larger species.

Gary, stuff stop.

Oh my god, he picked it up.

He picked it up, Gary, No, Gary, Gary's not playing.

I hope he comes back.

Lost in the Arizona desert, it felt like things couldn't get any worse.

Oh my god.

One reply on my scorpion video cove got me out. But when the sun finally rose, I saw how beautiful Arizona looked without an iPhone flashlight on. It must have been cool to hang out here without dying of heat stroke. Climate change might be in Arizona today, but it's coming for the rest of America. Luckily I knew just the plan to get the government to take serious action. I've released one hundred scorpions into these chambers, and the doors

We'll be on right everybody, We'll be right back.

So everyone knows that climate change could wreck the planets and destroy all life on Earth. But even worse, it could cost you some money, don't say Sloan looks into it. In another episode of count On It.

Good news everyone, the election felt like it was the end of the world, but it wasn't bad news. The actual end of the world is coming up.

The life threatening and devastating flooding, emergency crippling drives.

Some people driving through flames to skate.

Climate change is getting worse, and even though the election was a small victory for the planet, Biden is still going to need to deal with Republicans who don't think fixing it is worth the price tag.

The Paris Accord. I took us out because we were going to have to spend trillions of dollars the American economy. It will die if we get rid of oil and gas.

Where are they going to get all the money from.

One of the people supporting this says, we can just print money.

Congressman, I'm not taking economic advice from someone who looks like he spends most of his money on eight balls. But I'll admit, after the way twenty twenty is gone, I myself have wondered if the world is even worth safe. So I want to know what costs more doing something like the Paris Agreement or a Green New Deal, or this kind of plan, which is wait for it, nothing nah da. Luckily we found an expert in doing nothing, Professor Marshall Burke.

In a sense, we study the cost of doing nothing, although doing nothing here really means doing a lot.

I do nothing all the time, and it doesn't cost me a penny.

So we have studied this. The Paris Climate Agreement said we want to limit warming to one point five degrees celsius. But let's say we do Let's say we do nothing at all. The best estimates suggests we're going to get about three degrees celsius five or six degrees fahrenheit of warming over the next century. Hotter temperatures reduce agricultural productivity.

Finer treeons of dollars, something of monopoly money and unicornteers. So what will doing nothing cost the average person?

You're right, trillion is hard to understand. So one hundred billion is a Jeff Bezos. So a trillion is like ten Jeff Bezos's.

Should we just kidnap Jeff Bezos and make him pay for it?

I don't know if our research speaks to a kidnapping approach.

What Marshall's research does speak to is that if we don't meet the one point five degree goal set by the Paris Accord, it could cost six trillion dollars in the US alone, and Miami will be underwater, and not in a fun way. If we go pass that, the world's GDP drops by twenty percent and the pirates of the Caribbean Ride will have direct access to the Caribbean. On the other hand, what if we actually did something and pass some of the ambitious proposals laid out in

A lot of the hand ringing about the Green New Deal has focused on its potential cost. Imagine you have a loved one who's been diagnosed with the serious illness. So do we say, oh, it's going to cost ten thousand dollars to fix Grandpa, Like, let's not bother ten thousand dollars. Wow, No, we think about the benefits of that too. We like having Grandpa.

Around, so we need to think of the earth as a grandpa we like, is what you're saying.

Yeah, the metaphor works when you like your grandpa. And we find that the cost of inaction are actually a lot larger than doing something.

About the problem.

I knew it.

I knew it.

I knew it. But what do you do if you're lazy, dead beat ain't shit? Government refuses to see the logic in these numbers if you take their asses to court, even on the local level. And I talked to one hard and veteran of the US judicial system who is doing just that.

I'm actually suing the state of Florida. All we want for them is to cut our carbon emissions.

How old are you?

I am twenty one years old?

Is it a Doogie Houser situation? I know you don't get their reference because you're twenty one?

No, not quite Okay?

How much you sue them for absolutely nothing? You're suing them for nothing? What do you play Lado for the thrill of the game. Do you go to Vegas just for a weather.

So it's kind of like we're suing on behalf of the environment.

Could I recommend one thing? Sue to get enough money to buy a submarine.

We want them to spend the money on the environment. So we know that it's going to cost us as a society trillions of dollars. But if we continue to wait, it's only going to be more expensive in the future to pay for those solutions that we need. For example, the property value of the land that's at risk from five feet of sea level rise is about twenty seven billion dollars and for.

Those following along, that's a quarter Jeff Bezos. But don't get your hopes up, you know, because there's the chance that Florida isn't gonna change. Florida's still gonna be on your couch, eating on your food while you're at work, asking to borrow your car. Why do you need a car, Florida, You don't have a job.

Yeah, So to be candid. If there's no change, if we don't do anything to solve our climate change crisis, Florida faces extinction.

On the one hand, if Florida is extinct, then we wouldn't have to do with Florida anymore. But then again, Florida's part of Earth, and even though it's been hard on us this year, we should still do something to save it instead of nothing, because I still love Earth. Some people I like live here, even some people that I love, and I wouldn't trade them for all the bezos is in the world.

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