ADVANCE PRAISE FOR TAKING THE HEAT:

“Bonnie Schneider’s Taking the Heat details how climate change impacts the things we care about—our health, our children . . . and provides resources to help us build a more just, sustainable world.”

—Gaurab Basu, MD, MPH, co-director, the Center for Health Equity Education and Advocacy, and instructor at Harvard Medical School

“Without the presence of mind, how can we become better stewards of our bodies and planet? In Taking the Heat, Bonnie Schneider has crafted a powerful playbook that offers immediate solutions to these urgent questions.”

—Amy Reyer, Ph.D., Mindfulness Educator, author of The Art of Living Slowly

“Bonnie Schneider combines her extensive knowledge of meteorology and her clear, compelling writing style to navigate readers through the sciences so they can see for themselves the impacts of climate change on their own well-being.”

—Drew Shindell, Distinguished Nicholas Professor of Earth Science at Duke University

“This excellent book does a great job of helping us understand unfamiliar experiences like eco-anxiety and eco-grief. It belongs on the shelf of every mental and physical health professional and community leader struggling with how to help people cope with our increasingly out-of-control weather and climate.”

—Linda Buzzell, author of Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind

“This is an important book for our times that marries meteorological understanding with health hazards associated with climate change. I am pleased that Bonnie Schneider is bringing valuable advice to the public’s attention.”

—Janet Lewis, MD, Founding Member of the Climate Psychiatry Alliance