Scientists have warned for decades that climate change will make heat waves more frequent and more intense. That is a reality now playing out in Canada, but also in many other parts of the northern hemisphere that are increasingly becoming uninhabitable.
Roads melted this week in America's northwest,
and residents in New York City were told not to use high-energy
appliances, like washers and dryers — and painfully, even their air
conditioners — for the sake of the power grid.
In
Russia, Moscow reported its highest-ever June temperature of 34.8
degrees on June 23, and Siberian farmers are scrambling to save their
crops from dying in an ongoing heat wave. Even in the Arctic Circle,
temperatures soared into the 30s. The World Meteorological Organization
is seeking to verify the highest-ever temperature north of the Arctic Circle since records there began, after a weather station in Siberia's Verkhoyansk recorded a 38-degree day on June 20
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