Heat, Power, and the Climate-Policy Crunch
Record-breaking May heat in Europe, water outages in Kent, and rising heat risks for the Hajj show how extreme heat is now a systems stress test for water, power, food, health, and public policy. With the WMO warning of another record-hot year as soon as 2027, governments and utilities must move from targets to protections—designing infrastructure and operations for a hotter, less predictable world.