Spin your globe, fast as you can. Stop it with your hand, anywhere you want.
This is probably the one week in your life when you will be able to look at whatever place on the globe is under your thumb — or closest to it — and feel like you know what the folks who live there are talking to each other about at that very moment.
“Heat Apocalypse,” is what officials in France called it. “Burning planet,” headlined The Guardian in Britain, where nobody ever gets hot. “Floods,” they are saying in China.
