Webinar: Too Hot to Ignore: Reporting on Heat Waves and Their Growing Impacts in a Warming World

May 29, 2025

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About the webinar:

Heat waves are among the deadliest forms of extreme weather — and they’re becoming more frequent, intense, and prolonged due to human-caused climate change.

Ahead of Global Heat Action Day 2025, join climate scientists and health experts for a timely conversation on the significant rise of extreme heat worldwide, the challenges of underreported heat-related health impacts, and what can be done to prevent them.

The webinar will also feature findings from a new report by Climate Central and World Weather Attribution, analyzing where climate change added more dangerously hot days around the world during the past 12 months.

Speakers:

This webinar was moderated by Bernadette Woods Placky, Chief Meteorologist, VP for Engagement, and Climate Matters Director at Climate Central, and featured:

• Mariam Zachariah, Research Associate at the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College, and part of World Weather Attribution

• Kristina Dahl, VP for Science at Climate Central

• Karina Izquierdo, Urban Advisor for Latin America and the Caribbean at the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre

• Lisa Patel, Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford Children’s Health, and Executive Director of the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health