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Originally posted by kingy ↑

Deniers keep denying...but it's going to cost a lot

On both coasts and many places in between, about 100 cities have sweated and panted their way through the hottest summer on record. Roads buckled in Wisconsin and Washington state, New York’s Third Avenue Bridge swung open to allow ships to pass but so swelled in the heat that it couldn’t close again and Amtrak announced delays across its network

August alone, the US Department of Health issued “extreme heat” health warnings for regions with a collective poilatin of 57 million

A historically hot summer in the US is on a July killing spree,” ran a CNN intro. Last month, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a study reporting a 117 per cent increase in America’s annual heat-related deaths in the 24 years to from 1999 to 2023. Last year

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I saw during the week that Australians outlive Americans by an average of four years.

Reasons were their higher smoking rates and drug use.

Climate wasn’t one of the reasons.
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