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Hello, from NW Oregon — currently one of the hottest places on the planet. Feels like a convection oven. My puppy found a bunch of dead baby birds last evening — almost certainly related to the heat. Hard not to read the symbolism into it.

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Hi, I hope the heat wave resolves soon. I love the PNW and this type of event scares me.

Thanks - it’s definitely been a disturbing event, and hard to convey just how unusual it is. Portland was a couple of degrees from the Las Vegas record yesterday, and the infrastructure just wasn’t built for it. We’re just south in the Willamette Valley, and have a heat-pump system that’s been doing a decent job, but apparently you’re not meant to run AC more than a 20 degree delta from outside temps. So, we were at 80-90 inside yesterday by end of day.

Today is supposed to be the worst of it, and then we’re supposed to drop to normal summer highs.

By your anecdotal logic, if you encounter an unusually cold winter day, that will be proof that global warming doesn't exist.

That's why it's called "climate change"and not " global warming "

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