Temperatures hit 114°F in India last week—an aggressive heat-spike which left people unable to work. A report by the World Meteorological Organization said that Europe faced “rapid warming” and “dangerously high air temperatures”. America experienced its hottest March in 132 years of record-keeping.
The prosaic sounding HVAC is moving center stage. Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning is not just a ‘nice to have’, it is now often a matter of life and death. In the north, keeping warm was once the priority. Now keeping cool is.
