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Ben Welsh
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It'll take its first turn as part of our coverage of heat at the World Cup, and then we'll be looking to apply it to this summer's heatwaves and the potential return of El Niño later this year.
Because most climate data is global in scope, slow to update and centered on the upward creep of arcane statistics, it often has little to add to the coverage of major news events, such as last summer's deadly European heat wave.
This is the first in a series of steps that Casey Miller and I are taking to supply the scientific context that's too often missing from news coverage of extreme heat.
It all started when our executive editor, Simon Robinson, challenged my group to improve our coverage of extreme weather and other fast-moving catastrophes.
I gave a longer talk about the project at a Reuters Events summit in Boston last month. I've attached a few slides from my deck to this post. Thanks for tuning in. Now let me know what you think!
That's not all. We are brewing something bigger with Maurice Tamman and company, which I'm excited to publish later this year. Casey Miller and I are on the verge of rolling additional features out of the lab, which I'll share soon.
My hope is that we can provide maps and graphics that help people better understand a changing world, and generate "nut graf" numbers that can lead our text stories and state clearly the dangers of extreme heat.
