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Much of the US Will Be an ‘Extreme Heat Belt’ by the 2050s

Bloomberg · Leslie Kaufman · last updated

So you think it’s hot out there now? Consider the summer of 2053. That’s what researchers at First Street Foundation, a New York nonprofit that studies climate risk, have done in a report published today. 

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