LONDON ¨C Giving heat waves names and strength ratings, as is done with typhoons and hurricanes, could drive home the spiking danger from a threat that kills more people in the United States each year than storms and floods but rarely hits headlines, heat experts said on Tuesday.
¡°People do not understand this risk and we need to change that,¡± said Kathy Baughman McLeod, director of the Washington-based Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center, which works to cut climate change, migration and security risks.
With 2020 set to be one of the hottest years on record, in a long string of them, ¡°extreme heat is or will be felt by everyone, everywhere, at some point. We have to build awareness to this invisible threat,¡± she told an online event.
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