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Giant ‘heat storms’ are scorching the Earth. This is the story of the biggest one on record. (www.reuters.com)

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Supersized heat waves used to be rare. No longer. A Reuters data-driven examination of global temperatures reveals the emergence of what we call ‘heat storms.’ They now swarm the planet, upending life around the world from Texas to Ivory Coast to Poland.

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[–] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 child)

They seem to have taken steps against being archived as well. Not really my forte though, so maybe someone else has better skilz.

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[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

Thanks, but if they choose to hide their content, why should we stop them?

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