I just wanted to cancel an important appointment because the extreme #heat makes me unable to go outside into that oven. Their answering machine was at the limit.
They called me back: Yes, everybody wanted to cancel today but your appointment is tomorrow. It will be a little bit cooler then. If not, just call again tomorrow how you feel.
This is what the heat does to brains, answering machines, and appointments.
Record-breaking temperatures, deadly floods, worsening drought and intensifying hurricanes are placing millions of people across Latin America and the Caribbean at growing risk of hunger, displacement and water shortages, according to a new report fr…UN News
Climate crisis-driven heat ‘sucking soils dry’ as extreme drought hits Europe theguardian.com/environment/20…
#Europe #environment #soil #weather #temperature #heat #heatwave #drought #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
Analysis shows how heatwaves are making atmosphere thirstier, damaging water supplies, food production and power generationDamian Carrington (the Guardian)
"This is folly on a globally calamitous scale.
(...)
Fossil fuels, which were for long so beneficial to humanity, have to be recognised as poisons.
And petroleum companies must pay for backtracking on their promises and putting shareholder dividends ahead of planetary health and human wellbeing."
theguardian.com/environment/20…
#heat #elnino #heatwave #climatecrisis #climatechange #climatedisasters #makepolluterspay
The scientific consensus is that burning fossil fuels drives the climate crisis, yet the world’s biggest oil companies are planning to increase productionJonathan Watts (the Guardian)
How can you help wildlife during hot weather? bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c7vyp6lq…
#environment #weather #temperature #heat #heatwave #wildlife
Sophia Herod has some tips for helping animals that might visit your garden or neighbourhood.BBC News
Deaths in France surged 30% during hottest week of record June heatwave theguardian.com/world/2026/jul…
#France #environment #weather #temperature #heat #heatwave #june
Public health authority says 2,025 excess deaths probably an underestimate and that it expects toll to rise furtherJon Henley (the Guardian)
Well ... ok.
Mediterranean holiday.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned, “The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived.Cristen Hemingway Jaynes (EcoWatch)
#Heat #death of the #universe? Maybe not… 🤔
Quote: “ #Life is a special form of #complexity: It has the ability to create more complexity and to maintain #organization against the tendency toward #disorder. In a universe expanding without limit, the ability of #intelligent life to continually construct #complex order may not be limited by the #laws of #thermodynamics in the way once imagined.”
🐞 ⭐️ 🌱 🌟 🍄 💫 🦠
noemamag.com/life-need-not-eve…
New interpretations of the laws of thermodynamics suggest the famed “heat death” hypothesis, which foretells the end of all complexity and organization in the universe, might not hold.NOEMA
