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The future of North American winters

Olivia Box - Massive Science
Climate change activists take part in the international Strike for Climate protest in Los Angeles on May 24, 2019. (Getty/Frederic J. Brown)

70 US counties deal with climate change

Molly Enking - Grist
In this June 15, 2014 photo, a polar bear dries off after taking a swim in the Chukchi Sea in Alaska. (AP Photo/U.S. Geological Survey, Brian Battaile)

Climate records in 2016

Andrea Thompson - Climate Central
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History of global warming

Brian Kahn - Climate Central
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In this Friday, Nov. 8, 2013 photo, motorists head northbound toward Las Vegas on U.S. Highway 93, near Kingman, Ariz. Supporters of proposals to build an interstate highway connecting Phoenix and Las Vegas say an interstate would create a Los Angeles-Phoenix-Las Vegas “megaregion” and open a trade route from Mexico to Pacific Ocean ports and Canada. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson) (AP)

The terror of climate change

Brian Kahn
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Brian Kahn - Climate Central
FILE - This July 10, 2008 file photo made with a fisheye lens shows ice floes in Baffin Bay above the Arctic Circle, seen from the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent. In the annual Arctic Report Card, released Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015 by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. a record emerged for sea ice, which appears when Arctic Ocean water freezes. If governments are serious about the global warming targets they adopted in Paris, scientists say they have two options: eliminating fossil fuels immediately or finding ways to undo their damage to the climate system in the future. The first is politically impossible _ the world is still hooked on using oil, coal and natural gas _ which leaves the option of a major cleanup of the atmosphere later this century. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward) (AP)

Andrea Thompson - Climate Central
A boy walks near water spraying from an open fire hydrant in Brooklyn, N.Y., on July 5, as temperatures soared toward 100 degrees.

america is too damn hot

Alyson Kenward, Jennifer Brady, James Bronzan, Todd Sanford - Climate Central
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Joanna Rothkopf
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Joanna Rothkopf
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