Hellish Heat Set to Subside—but Bill Nye Gives Eerie Warning for Our Future

The crippling heat dome that’s made the last week miserable for large swaths of the country is set to end Monday afternoon for most, but prominent scientists, including the beloved Bill Nye, are sounding the alarm that similar heat waves are here to stay.

Theories that climate change is to blame for a spike in severe weather events in recent years has been repeated ad nauseam, but never has Nye given such a stark warning into what’s to come.

“It’s the beginning of the new abnormal,” he told ABC this weekend. “The latest research is that there’s not a turning point or a tipping point or a knee in the curve. It’s just going to get hotter and hotter and worse and worse and more and more extreme. This is a taste of the normal of the future unless we, humankind, get to work and address it.”

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