heat dome


Chris Hatch, in the Zero Carbon newsletter:
Here’s yet another phrase for our new vocabulary in the climate era: heat dome.

The heat dome building over British Columbia this weekend is expected to shatter records and spread east across the Prairies. Dangerous heat has already obliterated records across the western U.S. and from eastern Europe into Siberia.

What used to be the joyful beginning of summer has become a time of dread for those of us attuned to climate breakdown.*



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Canadian inferno: northern heat exceeds worst-case climate models*

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