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Social Murder: Who is responsible for heat that kills?

September 20, 2025

Ian Angus


Discussions of climate change that focus on the 1.5°C or 2.0°C targets can be misleading. An increase of less than two degrees seems small compared to the normal temperature variations we experience from season to season or even from night to day.


The problem, of course, is that 1.5°C and 2.0°C are averages that conceal extremes. Graphs of current and projected temperatures consistently display what statisticians call “fat tails”—meaning that high temperatures are more likely than standard bell curves suggest.

“The Earth is not dying. It is being killed, and the people who are killing it have names and addresses.” —Utah Phillips
“The Earth is not dying. It is being killed, and the people who are killing it have names and addresses.” —Utah Phillips

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