Lethal humidity is one of the most serious climate risks most people have never heard of.

In this episode of ConTEXT, Dr Robert Glasser, Senior Fellow, Australian Strategic Policy Institute, joins Dr Krista Singleton-Cambage from our Climate Action team to explain what lethal humidity is and why it's attracting growing attention from scientists and policymakers.

The conversation explores how heat and humidity can combine to overwhelm the body's ability to cool itself. It also examines the findings of the Lethal Humidity Global Council's first report and what they tell us about the risks ahead.

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