France is currently glowing red with heat. Not metaphorically. Literally. Land surface temperatures in parts of the country have been recorded at levels more commonly associated with the Sahara Desert.France. The country of vineyards, alpine villages, stone farmhouses, rivers, forests and temperate European summers. Looking like the Sahara. That should stop us in our tracks.The real story isn’t that France is having a heatwave. It’s that climate change is making places behave like somewhere else
  • sinkingship@mander.xyz
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    2 hours ago

    A city hotter than parts of the Sahara becomes a headline for a day, then disappears under sport, politics and celebrity gossip.

    It really feels like this so much! There were quite some sad climate news this year already, but except the heatwave in Europe, they all got buried by Hormuz strait news, like:

    • collapse of AMOC now likely
    • collapse of Thwaites now likely
    • acceleration of warming almost doubled in the past decade to about 0.3 °C/decade