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2017 is officially one of the hottest years on record, surprising no one
NASA found that only 2016 was warmer.
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Climate change is turning cities into harsh, sweltering hotspots
You're not imagining it. Summers really are getting hotter.
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Here’s how hot your city might be by 2100
Summer in New York could feel more like Juarez, Mexico.
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See how Earth is fast approaching a red hot mess
This is a terrifyingly clear visualization of our warming planet.
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We’re really heating up this Independence Day
In 1776, the Fourth of July was a brisk 76 degrees F. Those days are over.
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The highest low temperature ever recorded: 107 degrees
Not that I was under any illusions that Death Valley, Calif., is a temperate place to live, but this is nuts: The overnight LOW on July 11-12 was 107 degrees F. That ties for highest-recorded daily minimum. (The previous 107-degree night was last year, in Oman.)
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In 2012, 90 percent of record temperatures were record highs
According to this chart from Climate Central, record lows are about to be an artifact of the past. This year, 90 percent of daily record temperatures in the lower 48 states were record highs. In the absence of global warming, you’d expect a 50/50 ratio between record highs and record lows.
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Rising Temperatures Melting Away Global Food Security
Heat waves clearly can destroy crop harvests. The world saw high heat decimate Russian wheat in 2010. Crop ecologists have found that each 1-degree-Celsius rise in temperature above the optimum can reduce grain harvests by 10 percent. But the indirect effects of higher temperatures on our food supply are no less serious. Rising temperatures are […]
