Science Talk

Record-breaking heatwaves show climate change is already here

July 2022 is a wake-up call for govts and a warning of what is to come

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Benjamin Horton

In 2018, I wrote an article for The Straits Times. It was titled Heatwaves: A Sign Of Things To Come?
I could not imagine that just four years later, I would be living in a world where more than 100 million people in the United States are facing excessive heat conditions, and where temperature records in England are being smashed by the ongoing heatwave.
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