"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. Places are beginning to lose the climate that shaped their buildings, their farms, their infrastructure, their ecosystems, their communities, cultures and expectations of normal life.
France isn’t built for the Sahara. Its schools, homes, hospitals, railways, power stations and aged-care facilities weren’t designed for repeated extreme heat. Its rivers weren’t meant to run so hot that nuclear power stations have to reduce output because cooling water is too warm. Its classrooms weren’t meant to become dangerous places for children to sit exams."
https://www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/france-is-hotter-than-the-sahara-this-is-everyone-s-warning
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Pomegranate Pirate 🏳️🌈🏴☠️ on Nostr: I'm not going to lie, we've been having old school Bay area weather this summer so ...
I'm not going to lie, we've been having old school Bay area weather this summer so far.... Meaning pleasant heat, cool evening, cool breeze. But I fear this means we will have scorching still air heat in the fall. This post the other day really helped me with perspective....I mean its more than just reporting a heat wave. https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/116835757534016438