Dr. Jane Baldwin: Humidity and climate change
Reporters can request footage of SciLine’s interview with Dr. Jane Baldwin for use in their stories.
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It’s not just the heat intensifying with climate change. Rising humidity levels are also making hot weather more dangerous.
On July 14, SciLine interviewed:
Dr. Jane Baldwin, an assistant professor of earth system science at the University of California, Irvine. She discussed topics including:
- How climate change is increasing moisture in the atmosphere and driving more humid conditions;
- Why warmer temperatures combined with high humidity can create greater health risks;
- What is known about how heat-health risks are growing with climate change, and what researchers are still working to understand;
- How humidity also affects extreme weather that can compound with heat; and
- What people and communities can do to stay safe as hot and humid weather becomes more common.
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