Know that He’s displeased with His earthlings.

As if the Supreme Court wasn’t bad enough,  there’s out of control wild fires lapping our …everything, I guess.  As of today 71 thousand acres are ablaze in California, and the largest in the U.S. is in Oregon, where  the total land burned or burning in Oregon reached more than a million acres on Friday, meaning the size of land burning in the state is now greater than the entire state of Rhode Island.

As of Friday morning, there were 125 active fires burning in Oregon, totaling 1,018,218 acres.

This past Sunday was the warmest single day ever recorded, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, the European Union-funded research organization. That is, until Monday, when global temperatures inched up a bit more. Then Monday became the hottest day in modern history.

On Thursday, António Guterres, secretary general of the U.N., addressed the global heat wave and called for new efforts to protect the vulnerable and workers, as well as to make population centers more resilient.

“Let’s face facts,” he said. “Extreme temperatures are no longer a one-day, one-week or one-month phenomenon. If there is one thing that unites our divided world, it’s that we’re all increasingly feeling the heat. Earth is becoming hotter and more dangerous for everyone, everywhere.”

Smoke from the fires has reached the east coast.

“Extreme heat is the new abnormal,” Guterres said.

The state agreed to take steps to cut greenhouse gas emissions from transportation. It’s the latest of several victories for youth-led climate lawsuits.

By David Gelles