At least 18 people died in France, including two children left in a hot car, as a heat wave gripped Europe and smashed temperature records in several cities Monday.
As schools in France closed or modified their schedules, forecasters in Britain predicted temperatures could break June records this week.
The temperature in Bordeaux in France’s western wine country rose to 41.9 C, breaking a record set last August. In Poitiers, in central France, it reached 41.2 C, surpassing a previous high set in 1947.
The cost to the global economy of dealing with fossil fuel dependency is going to be huge. So instead we are going to faaaaaall down and worship at the Moloch of the Capitalism with annual human sacrifices. India is ahead of the game with 40k levels of human sacrifice (about 3500 per day!), so the other countries need to step up their game, because only 18 people in France, those are rookie numbers.