Reversing the Curve

There is no economic metric that can completely describe the current scale of change

Consider this: In 2022 Texas saw the average daily maximum statewide top 100 degrees F for the entire month of July. In the coming decades, parts of the South will see 100 degrees for 70 or more consecutive days. Those will be the average years, not the heat wave ones. As Scientific American put it: “This Hot Summer Is One of the Coolest of the…