Heat Waves Are Only a Preview of Crisis to Come
Climate change is making the switch to renewable energy an increasingly urgent need, but oil consumption continues to rise.
An inland gas tanker sails on the Rhine River, whose banks are at historically low levels due to heat waves.
Photographer: Alex Kraus/Bloomberg
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Stay cool, New Yorkers! (And protect your iPhones. If you’re hot, they’re hot.) As London cools off after a record-breaking heat wave, New York is sweating in humid temperatures in the mid-90s — and may reach new temperature highs, too. But while the heat waves have reminded everyone, rightfully, of the growing danger of unabated climate breakdown, political leaders are also worrying about what happens this winter, when we’re all likely to be shivering in cold homes in order to conserve energy.