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“Extreme Heat Is Covering More of the Earth, a Study Says”

NASA climate scientist James Hansen says the changes in temperatures are too large to be natural, and instead are caused by burning fossil fuels.


The percentage of the Earth’s land surface covered by extreme heat in the summer has soared in recent decades, from less than 1 percent in the years before 1980 to as much as 13 percent in recent years, according to a new scientific paper.

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