The Dust Bowl happened on a cooler planet. That’s what makes this comparison so striking. July 1936 brought one of the most brutal U.S. heat disasters in history—but July 2025 ranked as the third-warmest July globally in NOAA’s 176-year record, measuring 1.8°F above the 20th-century average. Even more telling: all 10 of the warmest Julys ever recorded have occurred since 2016. That doesn’t mean every location is hotter every single day. It means the entire background climate has shifted upward,
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The Dust Bowl happened on a cooler planet. That’s what makes this comparison so striking. July 1936 brought one of the most brutal U.S. heat disasters in history—but July 2025 ranked as the third-warmest July globally in NOAA’s 176-year record, measuring 1.8°F above the 20th-century average. Even more telling: all 10 of the warmest Julys ever recorded have occurred since 2016. That doesn’t mean every location is hotter every single day. It means the entire background climate has shifted upward,
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