ABCNEWS (ABC News: Top Stories) - WATCH: August was the warmest on record worldwide
ABC News’ Jaclyn Lee reports on record global heat as extreme temperatures fuel warnings across parts of the U.S.
NYTIMES (Jeanna Smialek) - How Fighting Fires Became an All-of-Europe Project
The European Union isn’t known for firefighting expertise. But with the continent ablaze, Brussels is playing a growing role.
YOUTUBE (CNN) - This was the hottest US summer on record. And there’s more on the way
The United States just experienced its hottest summer in more than 130 years of recordkeeping. Its impacts ranged from annoying to deadly — and it’s a preview of what’s to come. CNN Chief Climate Correspondent Bill Weir explains.
YOUTUBE (CNN) - Unusual change to Los Angeles weather
Unusual humidity and extreme heat are creating dangerous conditions across Southern California, where the air could feel more oppressive than in Miami, Houston or New Orleans.
ABCNEWS (ABC News: Top Stories) - Dangerous heat, humidity invades the West: Latest
More than 90 million people from California to Kentucky are under alerts for dangerously hot conditions.
AXIOS (Rebecca Falconer) - How extreme heat is rewriting the job of state government
As climate change makes extreme heat more frequent and dangerous, states are building systems to manage a hazard they weren't historically built to handle. The big picture: In a growing number of states, officials are appointing heat officers, writing statewide plans, setting worker protections, funding cooling infrastructure, and coordinating responses across agencies. Driving the news: July was the hottest month ever measured in the contiguous U.S., with every Lower 48 state above its 20th-century average. - The speed at which states have ramped up their response to extreme heat has been "stunning," V. Kelly Turner, associate director of heat research at the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation, told Axios. - "Heat's everywhere, but…
AMERICANTHINKER (American Thinker Blog) - Summer is the time for heat waves
By William D. Balgord Heat waves come and go. But we, as a nation, need an occasional reminder that none has been as hot as the one in 1936.
ABCNEWS (ABC News: Top Stories) - Plains and Midwest bracing for dangerous temperatures
Dangerous heat that has scorched the Southwest for days is expected to spread to the nation's midsection.
WASHINGTONPOST (Scott Clement) - We know you care about the environment because you’re sweating
A novel study compared the issues survey respondents said were important to their physiological reactions in a lab.
AMERICANALMANAC (Jack Newsome) - Chicago electrician trapped 130 feet up in gas station sign recorded farewell messages for his family
A Chicago electrician spent six sweltering hours trapped inside a narrow compartment atop a 130-foot gas station sign in Wilmington, Illinois, and recorded goodbye messages for his wife and children when he feared he might not make it down alive. AJ Gow and a co-worker were servicing a towering truck stop sign along Interstate 55 […] The post Chicago electrician trapped 130 feet up in gas station sign recorded farewell messages for his family appeared first on American Almanac .
A Chicago electrician spent six sweltering hours trapped inside a narrow compartment atop a 130-foot gas station sign in Wilmington, Illinois, and recorded goodbye messages for his wife and children when he feared he might not make it down alive. AJ Gow and a co-worker were servicing a towering truck stop sign along Interstate 55 on July 21, using a telescopic boom lift to reach the top. When the co-worker climbed down to grab water and a battery-powered fan, the lift malfunctioned. It would not go back up. Gow was stranded more than 130 feet in the air, alone, inside a compartment just 16 inches wide, too cramped to stand fully upright. Local firefighters responded, but their tallest ladders reached only about 100 feet. The sign pole…Open