Heat makes workers and entire economies less productive
If climate change is your personality and weather your mood, climate change is making all of us moodier
16 August 2020 - 08:42
New York — It’s hot out. Cue the headlines showing yet another temperature record above the Arctic Circle, fires deep in the Amazon, and more intense floods and droughts anywhere in between.
Also look for the self-described rational sceptics, the eco-pragmatists, and other hyphenated attention-seekers pointing out how, yes, it’s summer in the northern hemisphere, how it’s been hot in the past, and how we need to look at hard-nosed statistics rather than headlines and emotions...
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