http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/09/las-summer-ends-with-a-chill-it-was-the-coldest-in-decades.html

Having ignored one of the coldest summers on record in LA, Joe Romm suddenly perked up today about yesterday’s hot weather.

Then he goes on with this brilliant quote :

Given that there are a lot more people in the world than there used to be, it is pretty much a no-brainer that a hot summer will affect more people than it did in the past.