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For a glimpse of our

overheated future, pay a visit

to Jacobabad, Pakistan

By Aryn Baker

Hottest

THE

CITY ON

EARTH

SOURCE:U.S.

NATIONAL OCEANIC

A N D AT M O S P H E R I C

ADMINISTRATION

2050:

THE

FIGHT

FOR

EARTH

ASIA

1910s 0.47°

Difference
in Asia’s
average
temperature (°C)
by decade,
relative to a
1910–2000
average

1920s

1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

0.26°

0.18°

0.02°

0.18°

0.06°

0.07°

0.34°

0.69°

1.14°

1.29°

Photographs by Matthieu Paley for TIME