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
stop spreading a quote, liberal conspiracy theory, which is nothing but a quote, biden hoax. he will now focus entirely on finding ways to help communities to deal with the climate crisis. joining me now is chris. after leaving television, he joined woods whole group. also joining me is jeff goodell, contributing writer for roller stone and author of the new book, the heat will kill you first, life and death on a scorched planet. i want to start with you because it seems pretty frightening that our favorite person usually in local news, i used to work in local news and everybody s favorite person was the weather man. the meteorologist was the most popular person. maybe the sports guy for a close second. you re telling the truth, it s your job and you re getting death threats. thanks very having me.