"“When you’re among young people, it’s hard for them to understand how long we’ve known all the basic facts about climate change,” said Rahmstorf, a scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research who has worked on the topic for 35 years. “Even when I started as a PhD student in the 1980s, it was very clear that our emissions were causing global warming and all the consequences it would have.”
Europe has warmed about twice as fast as the global average and extreme weather events were already being strengthened by climate change when Rahmstorf was an early-career researcher. But it is only in the last brutal few years that the explosive effects of climate breakdown have been widely acknowledged as an immediate threat to the continent. A string of particularly deadly floods whose rains were made worse by carbon pollution – including Germany’s Ahrtal in 2021 and Spain’s Valencia in 2024 – have hit amid successive scorching summers that bring intense wildfires.
Yet even as Europe’s leaders acknowledge the scale and cause of the problem, they have weakened the very rules in place to stop it from getting worse. Two weeks ago, the European Commission proposed watering down the continent’s emissions trading system, a form of carbon market widely hailed as its most successful tool to cut pollution."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/30/europe-wildfires-climate-crisis-heat-summer
#Europe #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels
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