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Eddie Lopez and his son, Eddie Jr. frolic near a drainage pipe along the San Gabriel River, in California, during the recent heat wave.  PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERT GAUTHIER, LOS ANGELES TIMES/GETTY IMAGES
August 27, 2020
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As a heat wave roasted the western United States this week, temperatures in California’s Death Valley soared to a blistering 130 degrees Fahrenheit, marking the hottest temperature measured anywhere on Earth since 1931 and the third hottest day ever recorded on our planet, period...During so-called hothouse periods, when the atmosphere was supercharged with greenhouse gases, the planet was much warmer than it is today and the worst heat waves were correspondingly nightmarish. 

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