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There’s a meme circulating on the internet that’s popular with sweaty, climate-conscious doomscrollers. In the top panel, a distraught-looking Bart Simpson laments, “This is the hottest summer of my life.” In the bottom panel, Homer wags a finger at Bart. “This is the coldest summer of the rest of your life,” he says. D’oh!The idea, of course, is that though this endless summer may be miserable for millions of people from the United Kingdom to Texas, it’s just a warm-up act for the heat waves to come. Or to be more precise: heat waves will no longer be waves; they’ll just be “summer.” Meanwhile, plenty of other Texans are comforting themselves with the notion that extreme heat is a fact of life in our capricious…

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