A severe heatwave gripped much of Europe on Sunday, with temperatures nearing 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit), prompting nationwide warnings, transport disruption and signs of strain on wildlife and at tourist hotspots.

The heat surge ‌on June 21, the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere and typically the start of the three hottest months of the year, raised concerns of an early and persistent onset of extreme conditions.

  • HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca
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    2 hours ago

    There’s this sort of little known concept known as “climate change”, it was known as “global warming” a long time ago. The idea is that as we releaae greenhouse gases like CO2 into the atmosphere, more of the sun’s energy gets trapped inside the atmosphere making it warmer.

    As it gets warmer, stuff like this is expected to become more common. We haven’t known about this for very long, and so our greenhouse gas emissions continue to speed up day by day, but if we can spread the word about this new and very important phonomenon, we might be able to avoid the worst of it in the long run.

    Or maybe it will all just go away and get better one day if we just do nothing and wait and see. I don’t think we know enough about this “climate change” thing yet to really make any drastic changes. I mean what if we’re wrong?

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      24 minutes ago

      Hey if that was real scientists would have warned us about it years ago. But not your woke mind virus scientists. Real ones!

      /s

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      There‘s even cultish alarmists that call it „climate catastrophe“ by now. Weirdos.

      And then there‘s even people saying it‘s all because we do economics wrong, or something. Lol!

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      Good thing climate change is a liberal hoax. Otherwise I’d be worried, right?