The New World: Envisioning Life After Climate Change

…In the United States, extreme heat will stretch from Texas and Louisiana up through the Midwest, where by the mid-2050s, a report from the First Street Foundation suggests, more than 100 million Americans would be experiencing at least one 125-degree day each summer. According to another report, moving from 1.5 to 2 degrees would mean the number of people experiencing a severe heat wave at least once every five years would roughly triple worldwide... nyt mag