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As he leaves Phoenix’s blistering sun, AP’s climate news director reflects on desert life

Published: Jul. 22, 2023 at 9:48 AM CDT|Updated: 5 hours ago

PHOENIX (AP) — For four years, The Associated Press’ global climate and environment news director, Peter Prengaman, has lived in Phoenix. The city is currently experiencing an extreme heat wave even by the extreme standards of America’s hottest big city.

This weekend, Prengaman is preparing to move his family to New York for work and leave the Arizona heat behind. He says he wonders about what this latest, record-breaking heat wave may say about the future of the city, and extreme weather in general, as the Earth warms from climate change.

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