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This preliminary estimate underscores the growing threat of deadly extreme heat events despite efforts to adapt to a warming world.
The Environmental Integrity Project reviewed 74 gas-fired US power plant projects proposed or planned to provide electricity directly to data centers, which would sidestep the process to connect to the US electric grid.
Warmer waters could boost global temperatures, exacerbate sea level rise, and fuel extreme storms.
With today’s scientific tools, the problem could have been spotted in the 1950s.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Heat waves mess with your brain. Scientists are trying to figure out why. —Jessica Hamzelou It’s been hot in London this week. Really hot. A dangerous heat wave h
It’s been hot in London this week. Really hot. A dangerous heat wave has hit Western Europe. Yesterday, the UK recorded its highest ever June temperature at 36.1 °C (about 97 °F). But as the weather app on my phone confirmed, it felt like 39 °C. It’s frightening that we are seeing such temperatures
Europeans are baking under their second heat wave of the summer.
