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26. The U.S. news coverage seems focused on the heatwaves in the U.S. and Europe, but ...

Mon Jul 18, 2022, 12:08 PM

Jul 2022

I haven't seen anything about how areas like China, India, and South America have also been impacted.

Here's a link to an article that describes some of the problems in China:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/17/2110734/-Nearly-one-billion-Chinese-suffer-extreme-humid-temperatures-Bodies-begin-to-pile-up-in-Europe

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The U.S. news coverage seems focused on the heatwaves in the U.S. and Europe, but ... Tennessee Hillbilly Jul 2022 #26

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