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Gov. Kathy Hochul Predicts 'Temperatures at Levels Not Seen in Our Lifetimes'

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With good reason, we made fun of The Daily Mirror last week for its story warning that the U.K. was bracing for a 48-hour, 26-degree Celsius heatwave. It didn't take long for Americans to make the calculation and find that the Mirror was talking about less than 79 degrees Fahrenheit.

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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is issuing a dire warning herself, saying that the upcoming temperatures in New York State are "not a natural hot weather stretch." So it's going to be 90 degrees?

Not seen in our lifetimes!

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And every summer, we get the same think pieces about how air conditioning is "the next big threat" to the planet — and it's not just bad, but sexist. Cynthia Nixon's mayoral campaign for New York City announced that air conditioning was "notoriously sexist."

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Yep. Hochul will have to grant herself some emergency powers to slow climate change in New York.

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