Paris Staged a Huge Stress Test for Extreme Heat
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. On a sunny Friday afternoon in October 2023, some 70 children filed into a cool, dark tunnel in the south of Paris to help the city rehearse for its increasingly hot future. The tunnel, part of the abandoned Petite Ceinture railway encircling the city, is always 64 degrees Fahrenheit (18 degrees Celsius), making it the perfect safe haven from the potentially lethal heat imagined outside. Once underground, e
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