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This Year’s Record-Breaking Climate Disasters Usher In A Horrific New Normal
The extreme heat, devastating fires, deadly storms and floods we saw this year broke records — and the future only holds worse.
- Sarah Ruiz-Grossman
- HuffPost
This year’s devastating climate disasters, while breaking records, are only a glimpse at the worsening heat, fires, storms and floods expected in years to come.
Over the past year, we’ve seen the hottest July ever recorded on the planet (again), the largest ever single wildfire in California history (again), and deadly hurricanes and flooding along the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic coasts (again).
This year’s United Nations climate report repeated what similar reports have been saying for years, with even greater certainty: Humans are the…