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Under the heat dome

Under the heat dome

Death and destruction on the frontline of climate change

Jun 30, 2021
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I’m writing this dispatch (as I so often do) from the couch, but this time I’m sitting in the dark, with the shades drawn against the heat, and a fan pointed directly at me. Our cat has taken shelter deep under the bed, between storage containers. Temperature highs in New York this week have been in the mid-90s, with a heat index up to 104 degrees. I ma…

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