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Podcast: Climate Conversations
Episode: Quick Climate Links: America's hottest city now has a department exclusively looking at living with heat.
Description: Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego (pictured) has long worried about climate change and is now delighted that her city now has a department devoted exclusively to helping residents better understand how to live in a warmer climate.
Senior editor with Yahoo News, David Knowles, writing in a story headed "Can Phoenix, the hottest city in America, survive climate change?" said: "In Phoenix, where summer can feel a bit like living through a science  experiment or a dystopian dare, the average summertime temperature has  risen by 3.8 degrees since 1970, according to data compiled by Climate  Central, a nonprofit composed of sci...