[MCN] Excellent Associated Press coverage -- Summer swelter: Persistent heat wave breaks records, spirits

[Lance Olsen]

 <https://apnews.com/article/science-united-states-weather-heat-waves-arctic-0df38cf62117afaf1546ffc0485749d8>
Summer swelter: Persistent heat wave breaks records, spirits <https://apnews.com/article/science-united-states-weather-heat-waves-arctic-0df38cf62117afaf1546ffc0485749d8>
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2 days ago — The extreme discomfort of Thursday came after 12 states broke the 100-degree mark on Wednesday and 21 records were tied or broken. Since June 15 ...

 It’s not just the U.S.

The Russian city of Norilsk, above the Arctic circle, hit 89.6 degrees (32 degrees Celsius) Thursday for its hottest June day on record and tied for its hottest day in any month on record, according to Herrera. Saragt in Turkmenistan rose to 114.6 degrees (45.9 degrees Celsius) but Herrera said in the next days it can get even worse.
Herrera said tracking heat records is so overwhelming that he doesn’t have time to eat or sleep.
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“Localized ecological systems are known to shift abruptly and irreversibly from one state to another when they are forced across critical thresholds. 
Here we review evidence that the global ecosystem as a whole can react in the same way and is approaching a planetary-scale critical transition 
as a result of human influence."

Barnovsky et al. Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere. Nature Volume 486, 07 June 2012
<<https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11018>>

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