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Recent events that indicate that the Earth’s climate has entered uncharted territory

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FILE - Cargo ships line up outside the Port of Los Angeles, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, in Los Angeles. Maritime nations are finalizing a plan to reduce shipping sector emissions to zero by around 2050 on Thursday, July 6, 2023, but experts warn that the deal falls short of what is needed to prevent the climate catastrophe. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, Files)

Like a warming Earth boiled into troubling new territory This week, scientists said unofficial records set for the average planetary temperature are a clear sign of how pollutants released by humans are warming their environment. But the heat is also just one way the planet is telling us something is gravely wrong, they said. Heat … Read more

For the third consecutive day, the Earth’s average temperature remained at record levels

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FILE - A security guard wearing an electric fan around his neck wipes sweat on a hot day in Beijing, Monday, July 3, 2023. The government ordered Beijing employers on Thursday, July 6, to stop working outdoors after the scorching summer heat in the Chinese capital it was expected to reach 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit). (AP Photo/Andy Wong, archive)

Earth’s average temperature remained at a record high on Wednesday after two days of the planet hitting unofficial records. It is the latest indicator in a series of extremes driven by climate change. The global average temperature was 17.18 degrees Celsius (62.9 degrees Fahrenheit), according to the University of Maines Climate reanalyzer, an instrument that … Read more