<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="">“Building on Sun et al. (2014), Mueller et al. (2016) systematically examined the occurrence of record hot summers since 1950 in many land regions. They found that human influence has made record high summer temperature at least 10 times as likely and projected that the historically hottest summers would become the norm for more than half of the world’s population <u class=""><i class=""><b class="">within</b></i></u> 20 years.”</span><br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><span class=""><br class="">Chao Li et al. Recent very hot summers in northern hemispheric land areas measured by wet bulb globe temperature will be the norm <b class=""><u class=""><i class="">within </i></u></b>20 years. </span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="">[ <b class="">emphasis added </b>]<br class=""><br class="">Earth’s Future <br class=""><b class="">Open access:</b><br class=""><a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017EF000639/full" class="">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017EF000639/full</a><br class=""></span></div><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;">============================================</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;"><br class="">“… the serious meaning in a concept lies in the difference it will make to someone if it is true.”<br class=""><br class="">William James (1842 –1910)<br class="">Pragmatism. Meridian Books, 1955</span></div></div></div></body></html>