(Bloomberg View) – The first game of this year's WorldSeries earned a dubious distinction for the highest temperatureever recorded at the Fall Classic.

At 103 degrees, the temperature at 5 p.m. Tuesday in Los Angeleswas far above the previous record of 94 degrees set in Phoenix in2001.

Up the California coast, San Luis Obispo matched the highesttemperature ever recorded in the U.S. so late in the calendar year.This exceptional heat is only one of the ways in which cities areexperiencing climate change.

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