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> I'd be interested in hearing non-US perspectives on this.

Finland here. Some people would leave a child in a car when they conduct a short errand, and some people would not, and the latter might frown upon the former. But the law enforcement would never ever get involved. That Salon article is just absurd. A whole new level of American weirdness.

(Then again, we rarely have weather as hot as the more southern countries.)

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I don't exactly mean to question this, but in Finland is it common for the inside of cars to reach 40-50C within an hour during the summer?

During the hottest days of the summer (it very rarely goes above 28C or so - average maximum temperature is around 22C during the hottest summer months in southern Finland), yes, but not that often.

Less than an hour, I'd say. A warm summer day can easily be 25-30C, typically 20-25C. That's enough to go to 50C in an hour, windows closed, even on a half-cloudy day.

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