An extreme-heat conference was cancelled by an extreme-heat warning (lse.ac.uk)
The Grantham Institute's London conference on extreme-heat governance — co-hosted with the Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance, closing with a 'fire side chat' — was cancelled when the Met Office issued a red extreme heat warning. The cause wasn't irony but the venue: LSE's Shaw Library has no air conditioning.
The thread turned the joke into a number: Greece records about twice as many heat deaths per capita as Mississippi has gun deaths, and Europe's resistance to AC is the unscolded scandal underneath.
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