Conservative Columnist George Will Has No patience for those trying to connect the extreme heat of this summer to climate change. "How do we explain this heat? One word: summer," Will said on ABC's This Week on July 8-a day on which the mercury hit 102T in Washington. "What is so unusual about this?" Reasonable people may disagree about Will's climatological bona fides, but what's been going on in the U.S. over the past month-and really, the past year-simply isn't normal. More than 2 million acres have been burned in massive wildfires in much of the West, more than no million people were living under extreme-heat advisories at the end of June, and more than two-thirds of the country is experiencing drought. Last month 3,215 daily-high-temperature records were set nationwide-and that's nothing compared with the 15,000 set in March.
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