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<em>The Atlantic</em> Daily: This Is Heat Season, Not Summer

America is burning up and burning down. This week’s extreme heat is a reminder that climate change is here.
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This week, a damning climate-change report from the United Nations warned of Earth’s catastrophic warming. Temperatures soared in tandem, as if to illustrate the point: Europe experienced maybe its hottest temperature, while nearly two-thirds of Americans . Fire officials in the West to .

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