Eleven Trump supporters required hospitalization from heat exhaustion after attending a recent town hall in Phoenix.
A woman takes a photo of thermometer that shows 123 Fahrenheit at the Furnace Creek Visitor Center in Death Valley today as extreme heat wave warming issued in California on June 6, 2024.An extreme heat wave is driving temperatures to record-setting levels across a number of states in the western U.S., exacerbated by a phenomenon known as a “heat dome” that is likely intensifying due to the climate crisis., hitting 122 degrees Fahrenheit.
“You can get a heat dome or a configuration of the weather pattern that is similar to past cases. But it’s going to be easier to achieve more extreme temperatures as a consequence of global warming,”Recent heat domes seen in the U.S. seem to have been more intense because of the climate crisis. A heat dome that overtook parts of the U.S. and Mexico last year, for instance,
“For the past year, every turn of the calendar has turned up the heat. Our planet is trying to tell us something,”Politicians in the U.S. have long disregarded scientists’ warnings about the climate crisis, even as Americans are increasingly experiencing the effects of global warming.
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