The Crucial Years, Bill McKibben: Now Comes The Heat

March 15 - Several cities can now claim winter 2025-26 as their warmest on record, including locations with over a century of data…. Phoenix, Arizona, obliterated its previous (winter) record (a record set last year) by almost 3 degrees, a pummeling of a record in the realm of three-month temperature data. (When a record is broken) for a three-month stretch.... it should be by a tenth of a degree. That’s how statistics (used to) work on a stable planet. Three degrees is insane. And if that’s insane, then what’s going to happen in the next week is truly bonkers. A giant heat dome is set to settle in over the Southwest, bringing new temperature records. Learn MORE.