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It’s hot this summer. Not merely balmy, sweltering, or summery — hot! Millions of Americans are trapped in the heat. It has smashed many high-temperature records in the U.S. since June, with temperatures that sound like pro basketball scores: 112, 110, 116.
The intense heat is global. Xinjiang, China, hit 126 degrees Fahrenheit. Rome hit 111 degrees Fahrenheit, leading Romans to reportedly douse themselves in the fountains of the Piazza del Popolo.
The European Space Agency said the temperatures are the highest ever recorded and named the current heatwave Charon, after the figure from Greek mythology who delivers souls to Hades. Hades isn’t just hot. It’s hellish.
“Make no mistake,” Dr. Matthew Levy of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine told us. “This heat is deadly.”
There’s a question I’ve begun to ask myself as we report on the costs of this heat on lives, livelihoods, hunger, and people forced to flee their homes: Is it enough to use the phrase global warming to describe the cause?
Warming can sound like what you do for a baby’s bottle.
As former President Donald Trump tweeted on October 19, 2015, “It's really cold outside, they are calling it a major freeze, weeks ahead of normal. Man, we could use a big fat dose of global warming!”
As we report the climb of genuinely lethal heat, would saying global scorching, scalding, or broiling more accurately convey what’s happening to our planet every day? |
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