It’s warm. It is extremely hot for millions of people on all continents, and it is extremely hot in our planet’s thermostats, the Arctic and the Antarctic.People can stay safe if they can stay cool and if food and medications are kept cold.
If not, productivity will, at best, decline; at worst, morbidity and death will increase. From Pakistan and northern India to the UK, Spain, France, British Colombia, Argentina, China, and the United States — on every continent — the reports of records broken and heat never before felt grow.
The UK compared living in two cities in a region that is extremely hot and only becoming hotter: Kuwait City, which is only 80 miles distant and is an island of air-conditioned comfort, and Basra, where electricity and cooling are scarce.
