This was such a great set.

Can you do Skidolcha next?

Approved

Approved

GMK Merlin please. 

"NIHHIS was founded at the close of the Obama administration to consolidate the expertise of heat specialists from 20 agencies. Its structure and mission is modeled after efforts to address drought.

As former President Joe Biden emphasized a whole-of-government approach to climate change, NIHHIS worked to develop online tools like HeatRisk and the Heat Health Tracker — both of which explain how temperature forecasts can affect human health. Those tools are valuable for local emergency planners as they decide when to open cooling centers. Health care workers also use them to prepare for surges in heat-related illnesses.

The slash-and-burn dopes from DOGE carried out their purge across the executive branch and sometimes beyond. Demands for mission changes plus voluntary and forced separations wiped out a bunch of federal heat experts just as ever more states and local communities are desperate for advice and assistance to deal with what is no longer a few heatwaves in a few of the usual places. Unfortunately, unlike the nuclear safety specialists they early on fired and then scrambled to rehire, the heat experts who aren’t out the door already soon will be.

Juli Trtanj, who was NIHHIS executive director until May retired from [the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration] NOAA. She co-chaired the task force with experts from the CDC, the Department of Health and Human Services, and FEMA. All of them are gone. What has been lost is the ability to actually help people understand what heat means for them and what to do about it,” Trtanj told POLITICO’s E&E News. “There is so much institutional knowledge that has just walked out the door.”"

- Ariel Wittenberg - Climatewire 2025-06-10