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Kim CobbThis is not how February is supposed to feel. From D.C. to Denver, from Charlotte to Chicago, towns and cities across the United States have posted strings of record-breaking summery days in what is normally the final month of winter....All in all, the United States has already set more than 2,800 new record high temperatures this month.... “Those of us who have office jobs and bike to work may be enjoying these temperatures, there are a large number of stakeholders in the agricultural community who see doom more clearly in them than we do,” says Kim Cobb, a biogeochemist at Georgia Tech University [sic]. “I know without a doubt that should such unseasonbly warm temperatures continue into the summer, we will see energy bills spike to astronomical levels, see older residents suffer, and see schoolchildren have to stay inside due to temperatures spiking past human thresholds,” she added. Kim Cobb is a professor in Georgia Institute of Technology School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.
