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.
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)
Climate grill. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.
honestly i welcome the data center lobby just openly saying climate goals needed to be trashed so the tech industry can build ai — intense heat waves, record forest fires, worsening natural disasters be damned
politico.eu/article/europe-cho…
#tech #ai #datacenters #climate #heatwave
Tech sector says only carbon-emitting gas plants are reliable enough today to power the EU’s AI goals.Elena Giordano (POLITICO)
UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned, “The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived.Cristen Hemingway Jaynes (EcoWatch)
Buckle up because El Niño is almost here, and it’s going to get hot
Prepare for temperatures reaching ‘uncharted territory,’ the World Meteorological Organization warns.
by By Justine Calma, May 17, 2023
"The next five years are almost guaranteed to be sweltering, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned today. Climate change has already raised baseline temperatures for the planet. Now, a weather pattern known as El Niño is going to make things even hotter when it develops later this year."
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ElNino #Heatwave
Read more:
theverge.com/2023/5/17/2372570…
A one-two punch from climate change and a developing El Niño is expected to drive more extreme weather over the next five years, according to the World Meteorological Organization.Justine Calma (The Verge)
