John Timmer, Senior Editor of Ars Technica explains why they can’t just switch the power back on. Reviews and on-the-ground reporting from the blackout in Spain and Portugal. Off to Shangri-La. A world expert on Deep Time Professor Robert Spicer joins us. Is there a warning there too? Years ago, scientists predicted times too hot for human survival outside. They are here. In April, heat was in the 40’s, way over 100 degrees Fahrenheit for a billion people. North India is Hellish a month before the hot season. The red hot band of heat stretches from the Middle East, punishing across Iran for weeks, deadly in Afghanistan and Pakistan, sweeping into China and drenching Thailand and Southeast Asia in sweat. North America gets alternative storms of summer-like heat and cool, while Britain just recorded the hottest May 1st since record-keeping began hundreds of years ago. Australia is too hot, the Pacific Islands are suffering. This is half a world in extreme heat outside summer and it doesn’t make the news.