ASSOCIATED PRESS • July 27, 2024
On Wednesday, there were 21 heat-related deaths at a hospital in Morocco as temperatures spiked to 118.9 degrees Fahrenheit in the region of 575,000 people, most lacking air conditioning. “We do not need any scientists to tell us what the temperature is outside as this is what our body tells us instantly,” said Humayun Saeed, a 35-year-old roadside fruit seller in Pakistan’s cultural capital of Lahore. Saeed had to go to the hospital twice in June because of heat stroke. For climate scientists around the world, what had been an academic exercise about climate change hit home.