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Any news source that reports "record-breaking temperatures" is, deliberately or not, making these dangerously increasing temperatures sound like a good thing.

This extreme heat is costing us $$$

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No, record-breaking means it broke a record. If it was used almost exclusively for positive things, you might have a point, but it is routinely used for negative things as well. For example, "storm" is the third most related topic based on Google trends.[1]

1: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=record-breaking&g...

There's no universal law that declares it has to be reported as such

I missed the part where "deadly heat wave" was a framed as a good thing.

that's my point: many news sources are framing it as a good thing by not calling it what it is: a deadly heat wave

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