As anyone who's been paying attention to climate news knows, things seem to have gone to extremes—fires in Hawaii, flooding in New England, waning heat in the Southwest. Sometimes different extremes occur within a relatively short period of time in the same geographical area; the term for such a phenomenon is "weather whiplash". The general idea: With additional heat added to the atmosphere, weather systems go awry, moving rapidly from one extreme to another while exacerbating other unusual climate phenomena. To help redefine understanding of heat and its risks and dangers—and transform heat from mere numbers on a thermometer to a visceral presence—author Jeff Goodell has written his new book on climate change, Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on Burnt Planet . In an interview for this edition of the Bulletin Goodell explains why he focused on what heat—an invisible force that has real material effects on life (and death)—means to particular people in particular locations. The Heat, Goodell says, “…can bend railroad tracks, for example. And this book is about what such extreme heat does to living things and what it does to our ability to live within thermal limits." Some who communicate about climate change say there is one element missing from most journalism on the topic: anger. Emily Atkin, the driving force behind a successful climate publication Heated: A newsletter for people who are angry about the climate crisis , says that dry, factual reporting is not enough. If journalists aren't talking about the emotional depth of the climate story, says Atkin in my interview with her for this issue, then they're not really capturing what's happening to the planet. And reporters who settle for repeating facts without contextualizing them or getting to the emotional heart of the climate crisis may be one of the reasons why there is so much delay, or even outright denial, about climate change . (Dan Drollette Jr)