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.

Links:

• Tom Matthews’ profile
• Two articles on Tom’s expedition to Mt Everest: this and that
• Wikipedia page on penitentes
• Check 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 one
• The book discussed: The Ministry for the Future

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