My guess is this trend will spread, given that it's long been understood that, whatever happens with climate and energy policy, scientists say the world is committed to decades of warming, with more intense summer heat waves, under nearly all projections for climate change under a building blanket of greenhouse gases. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
Without the relief offered by these storms, the Northern Hemisphere will face longer bouts of intense summer heat, notes lead author Dim Coumou, a climate scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. (sciencenews.org)
Researchers at the University of Technology Sydney have come up with what they believe is the best solution to date: a roof coating that not only absorbs less sunlight, but actually makes the roof colder than the surrounding air, even in intense summer heat. (treehugger.com)