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From: Don Green7/8/2023 9:27:34 AM
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America's cruel summerIllustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios

Record-setting heat and hazardous air have already consumed much of the U.S. this summer — and the worst may be yet to come.

    Why it matters: The effects of a warming climate are no longer in the background. They're actively dictating and shaping our lives, Axios extreme-weather expert Andrew Freedman writes.
Blistering heat waves have struck all over the country. Another one is ramping up in the Southwest.

    Tens of millions of people have been exposed to dangerously poor air quality due to smoke billowing from Canada's record-breaking wildfires.Those fires could worsen this month. Some could even last through the winter as " zombie fires" in the Far North, smoldering through the winter in the soils of peatlands.
??? This week featured the world's hottest days ever recorded(average global temperature). The week ending Thursday was Earth's hottest week on record.

    Even hotter extremes lie ahead from the one-two punch of El Niño and climate change.
?? Between the lines: To meteorologists and climate scientists who track the planet's "climate indicators," the number of simultaneous flashing red signs is ominous.

    Daily heat records set or tied this week have been astonishing, beating previous spikes that also occurred during 2016's El Niño conditions.The North Atlantic Ocean Basin's sea surface temperaturesare at all-time record highs, leading some scientists to increase forecasts for the number of hurricanes likely to form this season.Antarctic sea ice cover is at an all-time low.
Global monthly and daily temperatures are spiking off the charts.

    On Thursday, global average surface temperatures exceeded 63° Fahrenheit for the first time. Last month was the hottest June on record. This will likely be the hottest July — and maybe the hottest month ever recorded, Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist with Berkeley Earth and at Stripe, tells Axios.
?? What's next: Another developing heat dome, this one setting up across the Southwest, looks to yield one of the longest, hottest heat waves on record in Arizona during the next two weeks. That includes Phoenix, the National Weather Service warns.

    ?? It's possible Phoenix will tie or exceed its all-time temperature record of 122°F, which would be an acute public health risk.
The bottom line: It's increasingly likely that both 2023 and 2024 will set records for the hottest years since instrument records began in the 1800s.
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