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Why we are 350: Scientists overwhelmingly agree that 350ppm CO2 is the upper limit to sustain life as humans have lived it. For more than 800,000 years atmospheric CO2 varied between roughly 180 to 280ppm ([link removed]) .

Our Earth passed 350ppm CO2 during 1988!
Mauna Loa Observatory ([link removed]) - We are now in the 420 - 425ppm range!

Below is a message I received on Saturday from Katharine Viner, editor-in-chief of The Guardian ([link removed]) .

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On 21 July, Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the presidential race was the biggest story in the world. But something else happened that Sunday. It was the hottest day in recorded history, though not for long. The record was broken again just 24 hours later ([link removed]) .

Fuelled by the climate crisis and El Niño, this has been a year of global extreme temperatures. Australia suffered a string of heatwaves through its summer months and, in February, parts of west Africa reported 50C temperatures that made “time stand still” ([link removed]) , as a local carpenter in Burkina Faso told environment editor Damian Carrington. From March heatwaves hit Mexico, the southern United States and central America, then India, southern Europe, Japan and Saudi Arabia, where 1,300 people died during the hajj pilgrimage. Last week we reported that temperatures in Antarctica were 28C
higher than usual on some days in July.

Our coverage of this run of extreme heat has placed the human impact front and centre. Just this week we’ve covered Italian fishers adapting to a warmer sea ([link removed]) , prisoners being broiled in Texas jails
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([link removed]) . On Monday’s episode of Today in Focus Samira Shackle told the story of David Azevedo
([link removed]) , a construction worker who died in 2022 during a heatwave in France. And as George Monbiot put it in a stirring piece about the heat divide
([link removed]) : “the inner sanctum is always air-conditioned”. Next week our environment team will launch an important series exploring the full global impact of this year of record temperatures.

One of our most-read pieces this week features images that encapsulate the threat of a warmer planet as well as any words: holiday snaps taken by a couple in the same spot ([link removed]) next to a Swiss glacier 15 years apart. In less than two decades this melting glacier has become a lake.

It’s alarming, for sure, but it’s important to talk about the actions we can take. Climate scientists tell us ([link removed]) that one of the most important things we can do is to elect leaders who can enact the major systemic changes we need, and there’s certainly been hope on that front this year. In June, Mexico elected climate scientist Claudia Sheinbaum as its next president and on Tuesday Kamala Harris chose Tim Walz, a noted climate champion
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