UPDATED WEEKLY
The Docket
A weekly guide to living in a climate-changed worldEighty percent of New York City's heat deaths happen between 82 and 94 degrees. Those aren't emergency days. Nobody issues a warning. That number, from the city's own report this month, kept surfacing underneath everything else we were reporting: a Texas farmer whose aquifer restrictions arrived decades late, a cooling program that ran out of money before summer began, new research on what the body already knows at temperatures the system still calls safe. The trouble keeps starting before anyone says so. This issue is about what's already happening on the days we're told are fine.
ISSUE #37
The Docket
Eighty percent of New York City's heat deaths happen between 82 and 94 degrees. Those aren't emergency days. Nobody issues a warning. That number, from the city's own report this month, kept surfacing underneath everything else we were reporting: a Texas farmer whose aquifer restrictions arrived decades late, a cooling program that ran out of money before summer began, new research on what the body already knows at temperatures the system still calls safe. The trouble keeps starting before anyone says so. This issue is about what's already happening on the days we're told are fine.
ISSUE #37
Monday, June 22
