Under the heat dome

Death and destruction on the frontline of climate change

I’m writing this dispatch (as I so often do) from the couch, but this time I’m sitting in the dark, with the shades drawn against the heat, and a fan pointed directly at me. Our cat has taken shelter deep under the bed, between storage containers. Temperature highs in New York this week have been in the mid-90s, with a heat index up to 104 degrees. I ma…