17. Tom Matthews on tropical glaciers and extreme heat

Challenging Climate

English - August 23, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 42.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
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Dr Tom Matthews is a climate scientist at King’s College London, specialising in glacier-climate interactions and extreme weather. In Episode 17, we discuss Tom’s exciting fieldwork on Mt. Everest co-installing the highest-altitude weather stations in the world, as well as extreme heat and its impacts on society.

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Tom Matthews’ profile Two articles on Tom’s expedition to Mt Everest: this and that Wikipedia page on penitentesCheck out this article on the upper temperature limit of human tolerance and Tom’s paper documenting the first occurrences of this temperature Check out these 3 articles on extreme heat in Asia: this and that and this other oneThe book discussed: The Ministry for the Future

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