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Justin Fox

Californians Have Reason to Believe in Global Warming

It really has gotten a lot hotter in the Golden State. In some other states, not so much.

It’s tough to argue with the evidence, even in New York.

It’s tough to argue with the evidence, even in New York.

Photographer: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

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I was in Los Angeles and neighboring Orange County in July and it was miserably hot, much worse than I’ve ever experienced there. Sure enough, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced this week, July was California’s hottest month on record (a record that goes back to 1895).

It was much warmer than average in July in a bunch of other Western states, too, as well as in the Northeast. Across the middle of the country, not so much: