Hotter than a match head

The news this week has been that Tuesday saw the highest recorded temperatures around the world. According to a story in WaPo, scientists calculate that the global average temperature on Monday, 62.92F, was the hottest it’s been in 125,000 years. Then Tuesday topped it.

You might at first think that 63 degrees is properly temperate, but consider that this figure rolls up everything, including the poles and highest mountains. We’re cooking ourselves, here, because this is totally self-inflicted.

So I think today’s earworm has to be The Lovin’ Spoonful’s “Summer in the City”. I confess that TLS are not my favorite pop group; they wouldn’t even make my top 500 list. But it seems appropriate to have a crappy band singing about this topic. 

Back when they released this, they could talk about evening respites. Not so much, any more.