""Almost 6,000 pedestrians died on or along U.S. roads in 2016 alone—nearly as many Americans as have died in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2002.""
"NASA’s top climate scientist in 1988, Hansen warned the world on a record hot June day 30 years ago that global warming was here and worsening. In a scientific study that came out a couple months later, he even forecast how warm it would get, depending on emissions of heat-trapping gases."
"The hotter world that Hansen envisioned in 1988 has pretty much come true so far, more or less. Three decades later, most climate scientists interviewed rave about the accuracy of Hansen’s predictions given the technology of the time."
When will the heat wave end? Except for the brief intermission known as the weekend don't expect any cool weather for the foreseeable future...
