What’s The Deal With These Heat Waves? | Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains...

That perspective on how the avg temp was in the ice age vs industrial rev vs where we are now was crazy insightful. Context is everything

20min + explainer?? Let's go 💪🏻

I'm glad to see people taking this seriously. I'm from the U.K (unfortunately) and whenever we have high temperatures, people immediately jump to mocking us, because they reckon they have it worse elsewhere, like it's some sort of sick competition to see who has it worse, which it isn't. They don't realise that unlike a lot of other places, we don't have anything to prepare us for or to help us through a heatwave. As Gavin rightly pointed out we have no A.C, that's just not a thing that's readily available outside of the commercial sector. Our houses were designed to trap heat in for the colder temperatures, which is what we experience for the majority of the year. The brickwork is several layers thick with insulation in-between. The windows are double or even triple-glazed, with an air pocket sealed in and lined with a rubber seal. When the 40+°C heatwave hit, it was absolutely HORRIFIC for us. We were warned to stay indoors by the Met Office who had issued red weather warnings and it was clear why - I had to go out on that day and within less than a minute of being outside it felt like my eyes were going to literally burst. Despite having been drinking lots of water beforehand I was incredibly dehydrated by the time I'd reached the end of the street. Things were melting, there were fires everywhere (including just down the road from me), anything metal (and even painted wood) was simply too hot to touch. it was genuinely very dangerous and I dread to think what it would've been like for the elderly folk. Thank you all for approaching the subject with a level of respect, this may be the first time I've heard Americans talking about the situation over here with any level of understanding.

Mr Tyson amazing interview. You are a amazing person. Keep your head in the science and still represent the everyday person. We need you.

When I was 11 I got the strong flu, high fever, etc... My mom wanted to know if I was delerious. She asked if I knew where we were. I thought about it, and I was always interested in science, so I told her we were in space, thinking I would give her the snarky smart kid answer. As it turns out, my mom was not a student of science, and it earned me a trip to the emergency room. The Dr. understood /shrug.

Yes Neil. We’ve been hearing about the Arctic warming 4-5 times the global average warming.

Dr. DeGrasse Tyson the 70's group Heatwave were famous for the songs "Ain't No Half Steppin'" (not to be confused with Big Daddy Kane's song by the same title), "Boogie Nights", "Always and Forever", and "Groove Line". Their first album has a melting album on it.

I'm an idiot!! I missed your show soo very much and didn't even think about looking on youtube until today. Me - No longer an idiot!! I am not a scientist, just a normal human lol. Listening to you really makes me think differently about the world and our amazing universe. Thank you for being you and talking to us normal humans!! Keep doing what you are doing, your words just completely enthrall me.

16:35 had me dying haha I love chuck

15:36 LMAOOOOOO