also tonight, after the hottest days on record, has climate change already reached a tipping point? the meteorologist who left local news after his climate coverage led to a death threat joins me tonight. and america s economy is red hot. jobs and wages are growing. inflation is easing. so why isn t joe biden more popular? but we begin tonight with a crisis that is impossible to ignore. i often start this show with the most recent to solve on american democracy at the hands of the modern republican party or the supreme court, but tonight i want to talk to you about a different type of existential threat. y all know it s hot. some of you in arizona spent the day trying to avoid 115 degree heat. next week, it might hit 120. earlier this week, i shared some really terrifying news. some scientists believed that july 4th of this year may have been one of the hottest days on earth in 125,000 years. guess what. we keep breaking those records. new york s temperature set a record
can t just tell a construction worker that s working in 100 degree heat the heat index being 112, 15, they can t stop and take water. that s cruel and unusual punishment, i believe. we ve also seen unprecedented wildfires burn through canada, sending bans of choking smoke down to the united states. the director of europe s climate change service told the washington post we have never seen anything like this before. we are in uncharted territory. but as vox points out, this is not surprising. it is what signists have been warning us about for decades and they say it will only get worse. one of those experts is chris galloninger. the chief meteorologist for cbs affiliate in des moines, iowa. he has spent nearly two decades warning his viewers that the extreme weather incidents that we re experiencing were linked to the climate crisis.