MATTHEW EDLUND
Guest Columunist
Edlundr@lbknews.com
Some like it hot. Nearly sixty years ago, film director Billy Wilder presciently premised that 
two men fleeing the hotly pursuing Chicago mob could succeed by dressing as women, and then unexpectedly find true love. But what happens to hot men and women when the mercury keeps rising? The strange transports of temperature are telling changing tales in the new psychology of heat:
Flying Hot
In military parlance, “flying in hot” means deliberately transporting into a dangerous combat zone. In civilian terms, it has now taken a different meaning. Passengers trying to fly out of Phoenix recently discovered that Bombardier jets could not manage the 119 degrees at the tarmac. They were unsafe to fly, though bigger jets could apparently still lift off at 125 or 127 degrees. Hundreds of flights never flew. One millennial, frustrated following three cancelled flights, drove to San Diego in order to return to cool Seattle. We are now in the age of “too hot to fly.” Which will make the natives yet more restless:
Heat and Violence
When temperatures are too hot, people get testy. The American urban riots of the 1960s were partly blamed on the “long hot summer,” but heat decidedly hits human behavior. Physicians and anyone interested in health knows that hot temperatures kill people without air conditioning, particularly the elderly. Yet temperatures do not have to go above average human body levels (not quite 98.6 Fahrenhei