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Having had almost thirty-five years to come to terms with climate change, Iâm used to the contours of our dilemma. Even so, the past two weeks have frightened me, both for what feels like a rapid acceleration in the pace of the planetâs heating and for what feels like a slowdown in a few key corners of the Biden Administrationâs attempts to take its measure.
This past weekend saw what may be the highest temperature ever reliably recorded: a round hundred and thirty degrees Fahrenheit at Death Valley, in California, on Friday. But the previous heat waveâthe one centered on the Pacific Northwest and Canadaâmay have been more anomalous. Instead of breaking records by a degree or two, it smashed the old marks by five, six, nine degrees. The temperature in Lytton, British Columbia, hit a hundred and twenty-one de
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