BANGOR DAILY NEWS • August 31, 2023
The life-threatening heat waves that have baked U.S. southern states and caused scorching European wildfires in recent weeks would be “virtually impossible” without the influence of human-caused climate change, the World Weather Attribution Initiative reported recently. Global warming, they said, also made China’s recent record-setting heat wave 50 times more likely. A new study shows that 94 percent live in the cities where summertime peak heat stress exposure disproportionately burdens the poor. ~ Rev. Richard Killmer, retired Presbyterian minister, Yarmouth; Anders Corey, his grandson, senior at Bates College