Temperature Records Are Falling Across U.S. As Climate Change DrivesExBulletin

Palm Springs, California, is one of several U.S. cities that have seen record-breaking temperatures in recent days and weeks. Mario Tama/Getty Images North America .

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When Joe Pascale moved to the desert town of Palm Springs, California, about 17 years ago, it was hot, but in the mornings and evenings there was a break from the heat.

“You could wake up in the morning and it would be relatively cool and you could enjoy the outdoors, even in the middle of summer,” he says. The mornings would just be great.

It doesn't exist for us anymore, and that's a huge loss, he said.

Palm Springs has been breaking temperature records one after another over the past week. The city hit 50 degrees on July 8, the highest temperature ever recorded for that day, according to the National Weather Service.

Last Friday, the city broke its record high temperature by reaching 50 degrees. Even in the early hours of the morning this week, the temperature still hovered between 32 and 35 degrees.

Pascale recognizes the link between her increasingly hot city and climate change, caused largely by humans burning fossil fuels.

Sometimes it feels like we're shouting into the void, says Pascale. There's a problem that needs to be addressed.

Last year was the hottest year on record globally. Global warming in the United States is faster than the global average, meaning the effects of global warming will be more pronounced.

Arizona, California, Oregon and Nevada have all seen record-breaking heat in recent weeks. And while the heat wave is mostly affecting the West, states like North Carolina and Maryland have also seen record-breaking temperatures fall this summer.

It's not subtle, says Joellen Russell, an oceanographer and climatologist at the University of Arizona, who notes that her city, Tucson, Arizona, also saw a record high temperature fall this week.

We will continue [breaking temperature records] as long as we continue to increase the amount of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, Russell says.

In 2015, at a U.N. conference in Paris, most of the world's countries agreed to try to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century. 1.5 degrees is a threshold that scientists say could trigger more severe consequences of climate change.

As global fossil fuel consumption continues to increase, it is unlikely, but not impossible, that the world will remain below the 1.5 degree threshold, according to many international scientists.

According to the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service, by June the world had already been at or above 1.5 degrees for 12 consecutive months.

But a 1.5-degree goal is not a magic number, says Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist and chief scientist at The Nature Conservancy, a nonprofit organization.

Even if the world manages to limit warming to 1.5 degrees, new temperature records will continue to fall, Hayhoe warns.

We scientists have known for decades that as the planet warms, we will see our temperature extremes [increasing]she said. Climate change is already affecting the people we love, the places we love and the things we love.

The good news is that the world has proven and scalable climate solutions, Russell says.

These include solar and wind combined with batteries. Last year was the fastest growing year for renewables, according to the International Energy Association.

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