More Temperature Records

Last month was the warmest June. France set a record of nearly 115 degrees Fahrenheit. And Anchorage, Alaska reached 90 degrees Fahrenheit for the first time.

Update (July 14):  Researchers at MIT project that under a "business as usual scenario" (4.5 degrees Celsius warmer by 2100), a wet bulb temperature of 35 degrees Celsius threatens human survivability in south Asia.

[T]he limits of survivability would be exceeded in a few locations in India's Chota Nagpur Plateau, in the northeast of the country, and Bangladesh.

And they would come close to being exceeded in most of South Asia, including the fertile Ganges River valley, India's northeast and eastern coast, northern Sri Lanka, and the Indus Valley of Pakistan.

Update (July 16):  A study published in Environmental Research Communications projects that days of "killer heat" in U.S. cities will expand rapidly if nothing is done to counteract climate change.

Update (July 21):  Six deaths reported in a heat wave over the Midwest and Eastern U.S.