China's worst heat wave on record is crippling power supplies. How it reacts will impact us all

For years, scientists have been warning the climate crisis would amplify extreme weather, making it deadlier and more frequent. And now, like much of the world, China is reeling from its impact.

It's dimmed skyscrapers, shut factories, darkened subways, and plunged homes and offices into rolling blackouts, forcing air conditioning to be unplugged -- and killed thousands of poultry and fish at farms hit by electricity cuts.