“We are really sure the South is going to get hammered. The South is really, really negatively affected by climate change, much more so than the North. That wasn’t something we were expecting going in.” We’ve already got plenty of regional inequality in the US. And climate change is going to make matters much worse. (Of course, this will be an even bigger deal internationally.) From The Atlantic: The American South Will Bear the Worst of Climate Change’s Costs.

+ Speaking of weather, yesterday it was 129 degrees in the Iranian city of Ahvaz. (Don’t worry, it’s a dry heat…)