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A week of highs: See where climate change made heat worse in America
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Last week, 96 percent of people in the contiguous United States experienced nighttime temperatures more likely to occur due to human-caused warming.

more than 1,300 people die each year in the United States because of extreme heat, but numbers are higher elsewhere in the world. Between 1980 and 2017, the world’s 150 most-populated cities experienced a 500 percent increase in exposure to extreme heat, according to aThe problem will become even worse as the planet continues to warm, according to the IPCC.

“I think there is still a huge underestimation of just how much climate change already influences our daily life,” Otto said. “There’s still not really an appreciation of just how much the impacts today are costing us. Every time we go outside, it’s different because of climate change.”

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