(FILES) A worker drinks water during a break from loading sacks of wheat on a freight train at Chawa Pail railway station in Khanna, Punjab state, on May 19, 2022. Scientists warn of record heat, threats to climate monitoring. Planetary heating is intensifying and key climate indicators are deteriorating, top scientists said on June 11, 2026, warning that funding decisions affecting Earth observation systems in the United States and other countries threaten efforts to track global warming. (Photo by Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP via Getty Images)