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Record-breaking hot summer, wildfires, flash floods: Climate change comes to the present

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Published August 1, 2023 at 8:20 AM EDT
Flames from the Donnie Creek wildfire burn along a ridge top north of Fort St. John, British Columbia, Canada, Sunday, July 2, 2023. (Noah Berger/AP)
Flames from the Donnie Creek wildfire burn along a ridge top north of Fort St. John, British Columbia, Canada, Sunday, July 2, 2023. (Noah Berger/AP)

It’s been a record-breaking summer. But extreme heat, wildfires and flooding are just a taste of the climate change future ahead of us.

We discuss with author and journalist David Wallace-Wells.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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