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General News 7/25/2019 at 10:27 PM EDT H3'ed 7/25/19

Killer Heat Forever, From Our Fossil-Fueled Inertia

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Europe's heat wave and climate change | A sign of things to come? Europe's death toll from extreme weather could rise to more than 150000 people a year by 2100 if nothing is done to curb the effects of climate change, study ...
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The reports produced by Kristy Dahl and her UCS colleagues give a vivid picture of an imminent swelteringly uncomfortable (and unhealthy) mid-range future . The vividness of the image of that future discomfort is undoubtedly the most useful result of this work and its reporting, because that vividness may motivate more serious governmental efforts to swerve American society away from its mindless fossil-fueled consumerist (and militarist) obsession, which is increasingly cooking us and our children and grandchildren.

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