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Extreme heat waves broiling the planet in 2024 aren’t normal: How climate change is heating up weather around the world
Less than a month into summer 2024, the vast majority of the U.S. population has already experienced an extreme heat wave. Millions of people were under heat warnings across the western U.S. in early July or sweating through humid heat in the East. Death …