Source: Lisa Sorg, NC POLICY WATCH, 8/22/19



The last time the Earth experienced a July this hot was well, we don’t know for sure. Such extremes occurred long before humans began keeping records.  Two-thousand nineteen will go down as the year of climatic rage: of heat, of floods, of drought, of carbon dioxide, whose atmospheric levels are the highest in three million years. Temperatures at Raleigh-Durham International Airport smashed a total of 10 record highs in February, April, and May, and grazed another in July, prompting the weary and the sweaty to beg of the summer:

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