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100M Americans Set to Face Potentially Historic Heat Wave

  • #Weather
  • #Fossil fuel
  • #Climate change
  • #United States of America
100M Americans Set to Face Potentially Historic Heat Wave
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JUN 2024
Image copyright: Justin Sullivan/Staff/Getty Images News via Getty Images
story last updated JUN 2024

The Spin

Narrative A

Burning fossil fuels has led to annual record-breaking heat for several years, and what's most troubling is that heat-related deaths are rising as well. Americans are finding it increasingly difficult to avoid these lethal heat waves. Searing heat is a hazard that scientists most definitively tie to human-caused climate change. This climate emergency can only be stopped if human behavior changes.

Guardian

Narrative B

The media keeps sensationalizing natural disaster stories so people think the world is on fire. What they don't include is that natural disaster deaths have actually dropped by 92% since their peak in the 1920s. Thanks to human ingenuity, carbon emissions are also predicted to decline in both rich and poor countries in the coming decade, protecting people from severe weather. This is vital missing context from the climate debate.

Unherd

Metaculus Prediction


The Controversies


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