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July has been the hottest month ever recorded—not locally, not regionally, but across the globe. More than one-third of all Americans are currently under some level of heat advisory as multiple heat domes cook the country. Hospitals are currently treating burn patients who were injured because they fell onto sunbaked roads or sidewalks. Ocean temperatures near the Florida Keys have reached over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, causing a new massive bleaching and die-off in "one of the Florida Keys' most resilient reefs."
And all of that is precursor. Scientists believe key Atlantic Ocean circulation currents may be near the point of collapse, a change that would have broad-reaching consequences for at least half of the world.
Climate change is here, and we're already taking a pounding from a "new normal" that will continue to get worse for a good long while, even if we shut off every source of carbon emissions mankind produces.
And Republicans? Republicans do not give a flying damn.
