expected to around the world these days how prepared countries to cope with such extreme heat. asked rachael plato, so the climate and energy program of the union of concerned scientists. the reality is not well prepared at all. and we're seeing that as climate changes exacerbating these intense heat waves. we're seeing a lot of people die around the world. they're seeing uh, threats to food security. we're seeing many, many people get huge illnesses or the elderly are particularly vulnerable, so we're not ready and have to take action. that right now to do better because climate change is going to make these heat waves worse. usually climate change has exacerbating the heat waves. audit was caused by climate change by global warming. so climate changes death, probably until an important contributing factor. it is some of, of course, that's a whole time of year and we have the new weather phenomenon that is raising temperatures as well. but there's no question scientist a very to about this. the climate change is contributing to the record. he plays such as the and have not seen the kind of weak t