To coincide with the United Nations General Assembly and the beginning of New York City’s Climate Week, Fridays for Future hosted a special event, Global Climate Strike, to call on world leaders to stop using fossil fuels.
Coinciding with heat waves, both land and water are being impacted. Florida feels these impacts as the state’s coastal waters reached temperatures upwards of 100 degrees. This reach led scientists to reference the term ‘global boiling.’
On Monday, July 3rd, the average global temperature reached 62 degrees Fahrenheit, the highest in the U.S. National Centers for Data Prediction since 1979. On Tuesday, it reached 63.
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