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Tag: global warming

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Above the Waterline: The Deadly Risk of Heat Waves and Blackouts

by Sally Bethea July 26, 2021February 12, 2022

As I write this column in mid-July, the high temperature today is expected to be a balmy 83 degrees, unusually mild for the summer in Hot’Lanta—an old nickname popularized by the Allman Brothers Band in lyrics written an unbelievable five decades ago. Except for a few steamy days, the temperatures have been fairly cool, thus […]

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