The Heat Is On
It's getting hot out there. Credit: University of Maine Climate Reanalyzer

The Heat Is On

Attention must be paid: the world is now hotter than it has been in 125,000 years.

A week ago, we broke the record for average global temperature. That record was broken the next day. Later in the week?it was broken yet again. Yeah, I know; weather records are broken all the time, so what’s the big deal?

Well, it is a big deal, and we should all be worried. “It’s not a record to celebrate and it won’t be a record for long,” Friederike Otto, senior lecturer in climate science at the?Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment,?told?CNN.

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