Well, technically, any coin that you are mining is a GPU killer. The coin itself is not... I have some Litecoins sitting in a wallet, some Bitcoins sitting in a wallet... not actively mining THEM, but mining others.
It all depends on your mining temperature cutoffs. Yes, hot weather will increase the ambient room temperature, making the air in and around your case and card able to have that much less potential to absorb the heat generated by your mining. Air circulation will help with that, but you also need to have an input of fresh air and more importantly an outlet of hot air for the room.
You are responsible, however, for setting the proper temperature cutoffs for your card. You're essentially telling it to process as hard as it can until you tell it otherwise, and to dump the excess heat in the vicinity directly surrounding your card. When that vicinity can't absorb more heat... your card itself can't dump the heat off, and retains heat. YOU need to set responsible temperature throttles and cutoffs for your card, so it will cut its hashrate until its down to a safe temperature, or flat out shut off if it hits an unsafe level. If you don't set temperature cutoffs, and you don't ventilate your location, you have a recipe for destroying a piece of hardware that will cost you months of mining on it to recoup the value spent on a replacement.
Garbage in, Garbage Out.