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An eighth of the US population is sweltering under a record-breaking heat dome. Climate change is making it worse
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A potentially lethal heat wave is affecting more than 40 million people in the US this week.
"No easy way to say this, so we'll just cut straight to the chase: it's going to be *very* hot for a *long time*," tweeted the National Weather Service in Salt Lake City in the lead-up to this historic heat wave. This heat wave and the exceptional drought in the Southwest are part of a damaging feedback loop enhanced by climate change, experts say. The hotter it gets, the drier it gets; the drier it gets, the hotter it gets.More Related News