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The Chilling Question About This Week’s Record Heat Wave

Fiery sunrise over the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C., with the Jefferson Memorial on the far shore.

This story was originally published by The Energy Mix Weekender, and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate crisis. What if this week’s series of record-shattering high temperatures turned out to be tomorrow’s record low, the benchmark against which future years and decades of […]