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The planet is setting new records for high temperatures. CNN's Laila Harrak talks to Bob Ward of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment about what's driving this year's record heat.

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[–] FracturedPelvis 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Why does the caption display 17°C? Thats not very hot?

[–] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 2 years ago

Average global temp, not highest temp in a single place.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Average over the entire planet, while half the planet is in wintertime.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Also a good portion is Antarctica and the Arctic

[–] AkumaFoxwell@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago

It's the average temperature across the globe as far as I know. And it has never been this high before.