😱☀️ 🌡️ 'We're screaming into the void.' Across the U.S., heat keeps breaking records
July 11, 20245:00 AM ET
By Julia Simon
"When Joe Pascale moved to the desert city of Palm Springs, Calif., about 17 years ago it was hot, but in the mornings and evenings there was a break from the heat.
“'You could get up in the morning and it would be relatively cool and you could enjoy outside, even in the dead of summer,' he says. 'The mornings would be just brilliant.'
"'That doesn't exist for us anymore, and it's a huge loss,' he says.
"#PalmSprings has broken temperature records one after another in the last week. The city hit 122 degrees on July 8, the hottest temperature ever recorded for that day, according to the National Weather Service [#NWS].
"Last Friday, the city broke its all-time high #TemperatureRecord when it hit 124 degrees. Even in the early mornings this week, the temperature has still been in the low 90s or high 80s.
"Pascale recognizes the connection between his increasingly hot city and #ClimateChange, caused largely by humans burning #FossilFuels.
"'Sometimes we feel like we're screaming into the void,' Pascale says. 'There's a problem that we need to be addressing.'
"Last year was the hottest year on record for the world. The U.S. is warming up at a faster rate than the global average, which means the effects of #GlobalWarming will be more pronounced.
"#Arizona, #California, #Oregon and #Nevada have all seen record-breaking heat in recent weeks. And while the heat wave is mostly in the West, states across the country like #NorthCarolina and #Maryland have also seen temperature records fall this summer.
"'It’s not subtle,' says Joellen Russell, an oceanographer and climate scientist at The University of Arizona, who notes her city, #TucsonArizona, also saw a high temperature record fall this week.
"'We're going to continue [breaking temperature records] as long as we keep increasing the amount of #GreenhouseGases in our atmosphere,' Russell says."
https://www.npr.org/2024/07/11/nx-s1-5034292/temperature-records-heatwave-climate-change?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
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