![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, record wildfires raging across the continent destroyed hundreds of thousands of hectares, creating literal hellscapes and exacerbating Europe’s worst drought in at least 500 years. The situation in Europe proved even more dire: an unprecedented heat wave sent temperatures soaring in mid-July, killing some 2,700 people in Spain and Portugalbefore moving north into France and the United Kingdom, setting new records in Paris (nearly 43.3˚C/110☏) and London (40˚C/104☏). In the Northern Hemisphere, this past summer painted a stark and terrifying picture of the devastating impacts of our steadily warming planet, where extreme heat currently kills more people worldwide than any other climate-driven disaster.Ī July heat wave that blanketed huge swaths of the United States set more than 350 new daily high-temperature records-including in Boston, Massachusetts, and Newark, New Jersey, which both hit 37.7˚C (100☏), and Providence, Rhode Island, which reached 35.5˚C (96☏). Climate-driven heat is changing the way we live and work. Unfortunately, that’s not an exaggeration. ![]()
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