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Serious marine heatwave going on in Europe.
eu-space.europa.eu/components/e...
They are getting a lot of attention thanks to Germany panicking because it’s school break and all need to go to Italy.
There’s even a live blog. Seems there are several thousand people demonstrating, which should be a good outcome for the sparsely populated region.
www.br.de/nachrichten/...
Pretty cool protest against constantly growing traffic with all its consequences like noise and pollution.
The most important route over the Alps to Italy is closed today for a demonstration of local residents, which they had to fight hard for, even taking it to court.
www.dw.com/en/demonstra...
I’m a bit confused by the sudden onset of summer. Feels like there was no spring to prepare for it.
But temperatures in Germany right now are not that extreme or unusual at around 30C. Unlike other European countries like the UK and France, which are experiencing early record heatwaves.
Perhaps the fact that we are conducting an unprecedented experiment with the only home we have, by digging up and burning massive amounts of fossil fuels that is driving global change at rates 10X faster than the most recent warming of this magnitude that occurred oh about 55 million years ago? 🧐
Climate heating is making heatwaves hotter, longer and more frequent. Breaking records by 2C is unusual - as is this kind of heat this early in the year.
As our political and physical climates both heat up, extreme temps can get overhyped in social media (e.g., heat indexes conveyed as actual temps).
This one is the real thing: 94.6F in London. Daily UK temp records go back ~200 yrs at some sites, so 2C above *any* prior UK May temp is big indeed.
I've got to say that I'm really disappointed in the recent discourse surrounding the RCP8.5 scenario. The lack of context and understanding is something I expected from the usual suspects, but it's frustrating to see such bad takes from people and outlets who should know better.
Summer has started, and everyone is in a really good mood on this sunny long weekend! ☀️
