The Heat Just Goes On and On and…

Some 35 million people in the United States have been under heat alerts today, and what’s been described as a “heat apocalypse” is unfolding in Europe. With that in mind, the latest monthly climate analyses may not seem very significant, but they are a reminder of something important:

When the heat waves fade, the wildfires subside, and some sense of normalcy returns, global warming will still be with us, month to month, year to year — and action is needed now if we are to avoid its worst impacts.

In its most recent monthly analysis, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies found that…