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Opinion: Blistering summers are the future

NPR's Scott Simon takes a look at the world's temperature maps, and asks what summer will mean to future generations.
A vendor fills a cooler with ice during a heat wave in front of the Lincoln Memorial on Friday in Washington, D.C.

Will our children grow up being scared of summer?

This week I watched an international newscast and saw what looked like most of the planet — the Americas, Africa, Europe, Asia — painted in bright, blaring

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