In June of 2017, the American president chose to leave the Paris climate agreement because, he said at the time, it is an agreement that “disadvantages the United States to the exclusive benefit of other countries.”  It seems that climate change knows no borders, and nobody benefits from our dear leader’s willful ignorance — witness the record heat and fires across the U.S., and indeed now all over the globe.

Oh well, we too can willfully ignore climate change today by finding a cool corner of our world and cranking up Cole Porter’s “It’s Too Darn Hot,” a song written for the Broadway musical “Kiss Me Kate” in 1948, and made famous by Ella Fitzgerald on her 1956 recording, Sings The Cole Porter Songbook.  Three versions of the song (including Ella’s) are found below the song’s lyrics.

Ella Fitzgerald’s version, from the Cole Porter Songbook, recorded in 1956

From the 1953 film Kiss Me Kate, Ann Miller sings “Too Darn Hot”