In response to the Western Europe summer heat wave, France bans drinking alcohol in public.
Posted by Leslie Eastman
Western Europeans barely have time to locate their sunglasses this year before the annual media ritual kicks off: cue the ominous “heat dome” graphics, breathless headlines, and declarations that civilization is one sunny afternoon away from collapse.
Holy color saturation Batman.
Someone take the red and pink crayons away. https://t.co/ST1S1AKgl3
— Chris Martz (@ChrisMartzWX) June 24, 2026
Never mind that summer heat has been a feature of the season since forever. Perfectly ordinary seasonal temperature swings are being repackaged with apocalyptic flair to keep the climate panic narrative on a steady simmer.
Much of western Europe baked under a “heat dome” Wednesday as temperatures soared toward 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in places, and weather agencies warned that the extreme conditions could endanger lives across countries, many of which have limited air conditioning.
France recorded its hottest-ever day for the second day running. The Meteo France weather agency said the country’s national thermal indicator — an average of temperatures measured at 30 weather stations — hit a new record of 30 C (86 F), the latest in a series of never-before-registered highs. The mercury surpassed 40 C (104 F) in some locations, including in Paris.
The French weather agency put three-quarters of the country under a red alert for extreme heat starting at midday Thursday until the same time Friday. The warning encompassed tens of millions of people. In the usually temperate Brittany region of northwest France, a heat-related equipment failure knocked out power to tens of thousands of households that had to endure without electric fans.
Fortunately, some qualified meteorologists and climate experts are on this case this year. The temperature realities are not quite as dire as the elite media would have you believe.
This is incorrect.
Verargues recorded a high temperature of 46.0°C (114.8°F) on June 28, 2019.
Retract this misinformation and correct the record. https://t.co/cK8prezLba
— Chris Martz (@ChrisMartzWX) June 24, 2026
Temperatures have been far more toasty in previous years, when the levels of carbon dioxide were lower.
Several of Europe’s all-time national heat records were set long before modern CO₂ concentrations reached current levels, including Poland (1921), Romania (1951), Bulgaria (1916), Ireland (1887), Sweden (1947), Norway (1970), and Greece (1977). At the same time, a large cluster… https://t.co/I43AlMDAII
— Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki (@MatthewWielicki) June 24, 2026
Furthermore, Western Europe does not represent the entire planet.
Climate hoax breakdown: It may be ‘even’ warmer in Europe today vs. yesterday but it is ‘even’ cooler globally today vs. yesterday. https://t.co/9W1wRJckPdhttps://t.co/fqRVG3Stv7 pic.twitter.com/lsppuH5eF8
— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) June 24, 2026
In fact, according to meteorologist Chris Matrz, the current heat dome is the result of a naturally occurring phenomenon.
Well, it has to do with the “omega block” in the jet stream. Omega blocks get their name because they resemble the Greek uppercase letter omega, Ω.
You can see that in the synoptic setup. The map below on the left shows the 500 mb geopotential height anomaly at 18z. The contour lines resemble the Ω shape due to an enormous high-pressure ridge in the mid-troposphere that is sandwiched between two low-pressure systems to its east and west.
Hot Saharan air has been advected—that is, horizontally transported—northward into western Europe due to anticyclonic (clockwise) airflow, and as that air mass moves north, it is compressed adiabatically beneath the ridge where air is sinking.
Why is it hot in Europe this week?
Well, it has to do with the “omega block” in the jet stream. Omega blocks get their name because they resemble the Greek uppercase letter omega, Ω.
You can see that in the synoptic setup. The map below on the left shows the 500 mb… pic.twitter.com/D2KHo9cOv3
— Chris Martz (@ChrisMartzWX) June 25, 2026
As thermometers climb, so too does the hysteria, with every warm breeze treated less like weather and more like a chance for ginning up fear and pushing for the development of more harmful “climate crisis” policy.
Interestingly, one of those new “climate crisis” policies is being trotted out in France. French officials have temporarily restricted alcohol consumption in public spaces in many areas affected by the heat wave.
A growing swath of France, spreading on Monday to more than half its regions, was under a “red alert” for heat, with areas forecast to suffer highs past 104 F and nights not dropping below 68 F.
Broadcasts on the Paris transport network urged commuters to hydrate. Medical specialists warned of the potentially deadly combination of drinking alcohol in extreme heat. Authorities cracked down on alcohol consumption in public.
Multiple drownings were reported as people sought relief in rivers, despite warnings about currents and other dangers.
The pattern, then, is as predictable as the summer solstice itself: temperatures rise, the media machine whirs to life, and perfectly normal seasonal heat gets dressed up in the language of civilizational catastrophe.
Yet the data tells a more measured story: prior eras saw comparable or greater heat with lower atmospheric CO₂. Western Europe is not a proxy for global climate, and the meteorologists willing to say so are increasingly making themselves heard.
What is genuinely alarming is not the thermometer, but the policy reflex it triggers: restrictions on public alcohol consumption in France, a cascade of red alerts encompassing tens of millions of people, and an implicit argument that ordinary citizens must surrender yet another small liberty in the name of a crisis whose parameters are forever shifting.
If the goal were truly public safety, the conversation would center on practical adaptations, such as access to air conditioning and urban heat mitigation, rather than on prohibition and panic.
Summer is hot. It has always been hot. The question worth asking is not whether the heat dome graphic will return next June, but who benefits when it does.
Meanwhile, alarmists should check out this video as a reminder of why Earth has seasons:
Abandoning Net Zero, and actually using AC, would deal with those temperatures. I live in Texas, where those temperatures are unremarkable,
“Heat dome” + summer solstice + urban heat islands = Very hot cities especially for night temperature. No cooling during the night means it doesn’t need much sun to get it warm again. Meanwhile left and right from the heat dome temperatures are lower than normal.
Saw a video of a family vacationing in France right now, trying to figure out where the “heat dome” is. Oh, they are from Oklahoma.
What about the billions of humans that must work outdoors for a living, of those who cannot afford ac?
I am a retired painting contractor, so I know what working outside in California or Texas is like.
First, one degree C is inconsequental.
Second, being acclimated and staying hydrated mostly deals with it.
A 1°C global temperature rise is dangerous because it drastically shifts the Earth’s climate equilibrium, loading the atmosphere with more energy. This causes rapid glacial melting, ocean warming, and more frequent extreme weather. Because global temperature is an average, a small rise actually means much larger, volatile temperature spikes regionally.
The dangers of even a single degree of warming include:
Every fraction of a degree increases these risks exponentially. Limiting warming means avoiding the worst of these catastrophic realities.
The real question when summer gets a little hotter than usual is: How can we get the climate catastrophe message (the one nobody believes) across?
By interfering in peoples’ lives, of course. Every time.
And… it’s dirt cheap. Don’t like it? Then simply ban it, that’s what the British do. And it costs nothing.
France bans drinking alcohol in public.
“Then simply ban it.”
Uhhhh . . . can’t do that with weather.
Ever hear of the “Google bomb” embedded in an early version of Google where if you typed in the search phrase “French military victories” the first “hit” provided by Google was the reply “Did you mean French military defeats?” with an accompanying link.
The full story behind this classic prank is given at https://www.dictionary.com/culture/pop-culture/french-military-victories
Now you know why this prank was so successful!
What my government does and is doing is entirely independent of a Google search.
Why you felt the need to ‘digitise’ the analogue (visual) obviousness of what is going on escapes me. Tell me you aren’t on a retainer..!
This is true . . . and more’s the pity. Most citizens care about how their nation is perceived around the world.
That’s sufficient explanation, but I’ll add this for your benefit:
“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”
— attributed to Francis Bacon
I don’t touch AI – if you are not reasonably expert in the subject you are dealing with you might miss that mis/disinformation built in from its training.
Francis Bacon is now famous for the ghost of a frozen chicken
Francis Bacon whilst out in his carriage fell into an argument with his companion Dr Winterbourne. The cause of the disagreement was Dr Winterbourne’s scepticism over Bacon’s hypothesis that fresh meat could be preserved if frozen. In order to prove his theory he ordered his coachman to buy a chicken from the nearest source….
In December 1943, Aircraftman Terence Long was crossing the pond late one night, when he heard noises of what sounded like horses’ hooves and a carriage behind him. Turning around he was stunned to see something which looked like a half plucked, shivering chicken shrieking wildly and running around in circles until it eventually disappeared. Shocked he then met an Air Raid Precautions fireman to whom he recounted his visitation. The fireman told him that the bird was regularly seen in the area and that one ARP had chased it, hoping to catch it for dinner until it ran into a brick wall and disappeared.
Interesting . . . what you posted in italics sounds very much like a fable that an AI bot might hallucinate.
I especially like the reference to the specific date of 1943, considering that Francis Bacon (the person I referred to) died in April 1626.
So, my question back to you: was your above post meant to be “imagination” or instead “a sense of humor”?
ARP was serious business. Ghosts, or whatever you choose to describe an apparition as, usually appear post mortem…
OK, got that. But I could swear that in the tale you presented above in italicized text, the reference was to “the ghost of a frozen chicken” (your words), not to the ghost of Francis Bacon.
Perhaps something was lost in the translation . . .
;-))))
Boy, the stoooopid just gets thicker and thicker with you.
And PLS toddles in to spew stupidity yet again.
Right now, I can give a firsthand opinion, since I’m a native of metropolitan France myself. I live in the east. It’s extremely hot, and we’re not used to it. It’s a boon for the professional collapse advocates, who are delighted to conflate climate and weather and spread their end-of-the-world predictions (“Everything is unfolding exactly as expected!” “Climate scientists have been warning us for 40 years, and we didn’t listen!” “Reality is outpacing the models!” “Excess CO₂ stays in the atmosphere for 10,000 years: even if we reached net zero emissions tomorrow, temperatures wouldn’t return to previous levels for another 10 millennia!” etc.).
So they cite attribution studies from the WWA to demonstrate that atmospheric blocking patterns have become X times more likely due to CAGW, even though no upward trend emerges from the statistics.
And the anti-air-conditioning campaign keeps intensifying. Consider that many hospitals in France do not have air conditioning. You may be recovering from surgery, with painkillers and other medication in your system, while it’s 35°C (95°F) in your hospital room. The French Agency for Ecological Transition (ADEME) recommends using air conditioning in homes only for the elderly, the sick, and pregnant women, and even then only in a single room, with the temperature set no lower than 26°C (79°F). The public is advised to make homemade cardboard window covers and stick them onto their windows. Some people have gone so far as to paint their windows white and avoid using devices such as computers or televisions because they generate heat.
France’s descent into Third World conditions is well underway.
I fear it is now unstoppable.
The “tipping point” in widespread self-destructive absurdity has been crossed.
It’s heartbreaking. I’m genuinely on the verge of bursting into tears (I’m not joking) over the state of my poor country.
France’s descent into Third World conditions is well underway.
My sympathies, however, the huge overflow is coming across the Channel daily and doing the same for us, although we are actually paying France for it.
UK and France strike new £662m small boats deal – BBC
Don’t get me wrong, Charles. If I could wave them bon voyage and trouser some free cash I would.
Absolutely. The EU and its immigration policy are an absolute disaster. The countries of Western Europe have become communicating vessels, endlessly exchanging the world’s misery.
There is an unspoken UN policy. It looks at global population and its geographical distribution. It decides there are not enough people in Europe and there are too many in Asia and Africa.
Lets move these people from here to there to balance things out.
It’s a rehash of Praktische Idealismus (1925) R. von Coudenhove-Kalergi.
Set back over a century by a certain Austrian wannabe artist…
Meanwhile the same people tell us we are too many on this planet and it is no longer sustainable.
But look at the Football cup . It now seems more africa against africa even if the team is from europe.
A very honest post. Yes, it is exceptionally – maybe near record breaking – hot on Western Europe. AND the humidity is high too. That’s the real killer.
Yes, parts of Texas are as bad, if not worse. But there it’s a regular thing. People get used to it, build for it, and plan for it.
Europe is not used to it. And it is high . Probably drinking is not a good way to deal with it,
Right now in the Eastern UK it looks like a storm is brewing. Which will be the end of it here probably.
It’s been a really nice hot week.
Probably the last we will see this year 🙁
The doom mongers will now point to ‘record breaking rain/wind/lack of deviation from te mean’ or anything else to ram home the climate of fear.
Meanwhile I think its time for a cold beer.
Here’s looking at you Texans, you can keep it.
Thank you for your concern, and cheers to you too!
The BBC is suggesting that the week after next, temperatures around me in NW London will be over 30C for the whole week.
I treat the BBC weather service with extreme skepticism, but they seem to think that another hot week will occur in early July.
Paint your windows? We just draw the curtains – seems to work.
As a matter of fact, I had the exact same thought. I imagine painting the windows white is meant to increase the room’s albedo…
Descent in Third World conditions?
In 3rd world India, AC is everywhere, in cities at least, and certainly in an hospital. We used to cover our windows 30 years ago. No longer. People have 2-3 ACs in their flats. Middle-class people,
Well, you’re right. However, I should clarify that my use of the term “Third World” was rather abstract; it referred to the stereotypical image of the Third World. An “Image d’Epinal”, as we say in French.
I’m glad that India’s leaders have shown good judgment and that the situation is improving greatly for the Indian people.
Imagine! Hot weather in summer!! Who would ever have expected that? Quick, hit the mass hysteria button, close the Eiffel Tower, ban alcoholic drinks, I JUST CAN’T COPE!!!!! EEECH, SCREAM.
As always, a well loved song…we all commented at length some days back on it and memories.
Now ya’ll got me thinking about my sweet blond girlfriend of 60 yrs. ago…I wonder if she’s still alive?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE-dqW4uBEE
warped but fun
This lead -in sentence to the above article:
Hmmmm . . . just wondering if the “leadership” of France is aware that restrictions on the actions of its citizens will have ZERO effect on the weather over the country, as results from the horizontal movement of atmospheric masses across the Earth’s northern hemisphere and the solar radiation falling within the nation’s borders.
Antoine Lavoisier, Blaise Pascal, Pierre-Simon Laplace and other past, famous French scientists must be “turning over in their graves” upon hearing this pronouncement! /sarc
In response to good weather and the possible outbreak of ‘fun’ among people, a measure to cramp their style is needed.
I can hear Poincaré banging his head against the lid of his coffin, shouting, “Idiots! Idiots!”
I think they are thinking that being dehydrated as well as sunburnt may put more pressure on the medical system…..
. . . and the reason the French would not want to drink water to stay hydrated—that is, in addition to continuing to drink beverages containing alcohol— is???
Also, shade and sunscreen lotion doesn’t exist in France???
Maybe Perrier sparkling spring water is already banned in France?
Bah! Leftist meddlers and puritanical nutcases.
Ban alcohol in France? I’ll be surprised if there isn’t another revolution…
This is like asking Eric to not drink cold beer during the summer.
About 700 miles NE of Moscow, the temperature is ~50°F.
What is the seasonal norm there?
Who cares? I bet they can drink alcohol.
So if the temperature there is 50F and in France it is 104F that means the average of 77F is quite comfortable. So what is the problem? )-;
Meanwhile in Canada near the US border, I had to light a fire yesterday to heat the house. Normally I stop heating in May. It was hot weather in the last week but turned cold. I would need to wear a coat to go outside this morning.
Petey – didn’t you know that weather changes at international borders?
Yes, transport does not mean passport.
“Fortunately, some qualified meteorologists and climate experts are on this case this year. The temperature realities are not quite as dire as the elite media would have you believe.”
“Unfortunately” their skills don’t extend to basic comprehension.
The article is clearly referring to the 30 station Heat Index being a new record twice; indicative of the extraordinary wide area affected by very high temperatures. They are not referring to the highest temperature recorded at an individual location.
This is the second time WUWT articles have goofed recently; claiming a gotcha moment that wasn’t.
It’s another invented metric. One of many now.
30 stations placed exactly where? 30 downtown parking lots?
I was at the French Grand Prix held on the Rheims road circuit in 1961 and it was at least 39 in the shade (and there wasn’t any shade). Apart from the (non-record) temperature, two other noteworthy things occurred that day. Giancarlo Baghetti won the race on a road surface that was melting before the starting flag dropped, the only person in history to win an F1 GP on his debut. The other was that the French Air Force flew a Dassault Mirage III over the crowd in their first public demonstration that they could build a jet fighter with a horizontal speed above Mach 1. I must say, that made a big impression on me. You couldn’t hear it coming…
The temperatures during the summer of 1911 in France got to at least 39 degrees many times, with thousands of communities not reporting at all, and there was far less urban heat island effect. More than 40,000 people died. There has been nothing close to that since. The claims that 42 is a new all time record are silly, when there was a 46 recorded in 2019. That probably included 6 degrees of combined heat island effects.
“30 stations placed exactly where? 30 downtown parking lots?”
Voici la liste des stations utilisées pour calculer cet indicateur thermique, et les poids associés dans le calcul de la moyenne.
1
Nice – Côte d’Azur1
Marseille-Marignane (Marseille Provence)1
Caen-Carpiquet1
Cognac-Châteaubernard1
Bastia – Poretta1
Dijon-Longvic1
Besançon – Thise1
Montélimar – Ancone1
Brest-Guipavas1
Nimes-Courbessac1
Toulouse-Blagnac1
Bordeaux-Mérignac1
Rennes-St Jacques1
Châteauroux – Déols1
Nantes-Atlantique1
Orléans – Bricy1
Agen – La Garenne1
Reims-Prunay1
Nancy-Essey1
Nevers-Marzy1
Lille-Lesquin1
Clermont-Ferrand – Aulnat1
Pau-Uzein1
Perpignan – Rivesaltes1
Strasbourg-Entzheim1
Lyon-Bron1
Le Mans – Arnage1
Bourg-St-Maurice1
Paris-Montsouris1
Poitiers-Biard
Story almost tip
Off Topic – the Met Office and RCP8.5. I recently emailed the Met Office…
I am writing with regard to the international committee responsible for the official scenarios that feed into climate modelling, and thereby into UKCP18.
You will no doubt be aware that the scenario used has been declared implausible. This is an absolutely huge development in climate science that will have lasting impacts across research and policy. The future is not what it used to be.
Just as RCP8.5 has been ruled as implausible, so have all the Met Office’s climate predictions based upon it. What is the plan to discard the implausible UKCP18 and what will you advise to the Climate Change Committee about RCP8.5s new junk status?
I think we should be told…. Maybe you can get someone on to the BBC to explain it?
Well, here is the reply I have received today
Hello,
Thank you for your email, regarding IPCC Ruling on RCP8.5
The Met Office welcomes enquiries and feedback, and in the context of climate change these items nearly always require a certain amount of research to fulfil a suitable reply.
All enquiries are recorded and the reference number for your enquiry is CS0096588
If you have asked specific questions or for further information, please be assured that we are working towards an answer for you. Given our research workload we cannot always ask our Hadley Centre scientists to deal with feedback as quickly as we would wish. In addition to this, due to work loads, we are unable to provide point-by-point answers to particularly long enquiries, and we cannot enter into ongoing debates. Nevertheless, we aim to respond to every query put to us where necessary and aim to respond within 28 working days.
There is no debate to be had. RCP8.5, whether they like it or not, is officially junk.
Nice. you need to follow this up and report back, mate, perhaps even write your dealings with the MO as a post or at least an unthreaded comment
I intend to.
I’ve been located in Ile-de-France for over 30 years and this episode is definitely not “perfectly normal”.
Yes, “civilizational catastrophe” language is inappropriate, but under-playing the situation isn’t a good thing either.
Attached is a selection of the Tmax data from the Parc Montsouris weather station in the south of Paris.
The “normal” pattern here is of 2-to-4-day “spikes” above 35°C (or so), which end with thunderstorms and a drop of ~10°C “overnight” (see the grey-dotted line in the graph below).
The main problem these past 10 days was the relentless 33-to-40°C ramp-up in Tmax values, combined with the ever-increasing minimum temperatures at night (above 30°C the last few nights in my flat, but thunderstorms are due to arrive this evening …).
The last time we had a “9 or 10 days above 34°C” episode was in August 2003, which ended up with an “official death toll” of ~14,800 nationwide.
This time round it’s looking more like a toll (just) into triple digits, mostly young people experiencing “thermal shock” from jumping into (relatively) cold rivers. The French learned a lot back in 2003, but with such a wild “outlier” event there will always be new lessons to learn.
“Adaptation”, as is so often the case with extreme weather events, is the key concept here.
The current heat wave doesn’t hold a candle to the 1911 event. That was 115 years ago when the globe generally was >1 degree cooler than now. It was just as hot in 1961 when I visited Rheims. The thermal shock angle is hard to believe. People routinely go from a sauna at 55-60 degrees C into ice water and they don’t keel over. French weather records go back a very long way. There were terrible droughts in the past, terrible heat waves and deaths galore. The strangest thing to me is that France is the leading generator of reliable electricity in Europe yet they don’t have air conditioning. Apparently there is a widespread superstition that air conditioning is had for your health. Bad weather (and many other things) used to be blamed on French witches:
The last witch burning was 1745 (Lyon/Debaraz), but the last true witch-hysteria was the Affair of the Poisons ending in 1682, with Loudun (1634) the most vivid example of the mass-possession variety. The 1682 royal edict is the real turning point that legislated the panics out of existence. Now we have climate change hysteria and that deserves its own sanity edict.
Waiting for the day when every fatality ocurred between June 1st and august 31 is considered a “death due to unprecedented heat”. Don’t need to look too far into the past when they pulled off a comparable scare scam…
If we can have a polar vortex every winter, why not a heat dome in summer? After all, the media is likely to be getting funding from environmental activist organizations and governments themselves to play up any example of climate extremes, no matter how innocuous. Meanwhile people just make the necessary adjustments and go about their lives as usual.
Fire up all fossil fuel and nuclear generators. Build new fossil fuel and nuclear generators. You’ll have plenty of power to run your fans and air conditioners. Remove wind and solar from the grid.
Oh dear, they are having a hot summer in France.
It is so bad that French men are wearing deodorant!
Come to Australia.
Feb 7th 2009.
In Victoria, we had three successive days of 43 degrees, that was the precursor to a day of 46.4 degrees.
Black Saturday.
The state was tinder dry, the northern winds began to blow and we had terrible bushfires.
Yet we rallied around, got the bush fires out and counted the cost.
And carried on.
There is a saying in the Australian Army, mostly said to young recruits who complain too much.
“Eat some fucking concrete pills, and harden up, son”
Not the same sort of *heat*.
Humidity:
Humidity is the killer + no escape indoors at night with no A/C.
“During the peak of the February 2009 Victoria heatwave and bushfires, relative humidity dropped to critically low levels, frequently dipping into the single digits. On the most severe day, February 7 (Black Saturday), afternoon humidity plummeted to as low as 5% in Melbourne and other areas of the state.”
In central Paris on the 24th at a max air temp of 41C the humidity was 25%
Additionally:
”According to the country’s Agency for Ecological Transition, only an estimated 20 to 25 percent of households in France are equipped with air- conditioning.”
”The impact of the heatwave has been made considerably worse by the high proportion of French buildings and infrastructure not designed to cope with high temperatures. Paris, one of Europe’s most densely populated cities, known for its poorly insulated housing stock, has for years been considered to have the highest heatwave mortality risk of any capital on the continent.
“Yesterday I sat down and cried, I thought I’m going to die,” said the 35-year-old single parent and former building caretaker.
Her flat in Ris-Orangis in Essonne is, like millions of apartments in France, poorly insulated and lacking in outside window shutters. “Blazing sun hits my windows all day – I can’t breathe, I feel dizzy, there is no air,” she said”.
IOW: 40C in OZ is not equivalent to 40C in France or England.
Reason:
You have those temps on a regular basis (and so your infrastructure is made to cope).
We don’t or rather didn’t (used to get this level of heat), and so it isn’t.
The humidity where I live in the uk was around 40% according to one of our electronic devices. As the temperature increases you sweat more, it’s the evaporation of sweat that cools you down. In high humidity the sweat is unable to evaporate as easily, thus the body is unable to cool down, you also start becoming dehydrated and overheated.
They promote hysteria and lie because that is all they have left after 38 years of apocalyptic scaremongering bullshit.
No “Hot spot” exists.
No Positive Feedback Loop exists.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz9l1n4kn34o shows pavement temperatures at 57 degrees Celsius. What people don’t seem to realise or don’t want to is that the pavement is acting like a day storage heater that radiates heat adding to the air temperature overnight, thus increasing the measured minimum temperature, the UHI visualised.
Again, a very poorly-documented article. Just a patchwork of screenshot from an obscure X account, opposed to official data gathered and maintained by professionals. Just lost 2 minutes of my life
Human-caused climate change made this month’s roasting heat in Western Europe much more likely than it would have been even just two decades ago, scientists said Friday, highlighting the rapidly escalating risks to health and livelihoods from the burning of fossil fuels.
“Emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases have been raising temperatures worldwide for more than a century. All the extra heat at Earth’s surface allows summer weather patterns to deliver hotter days and more stifling nights than they once did.
After examining decades of temperature records, a team of scientists has concluded that a hot spell as intense as this week’s, over such a large stretch of Europe, was still rare for June in today’s climate, with a less than 1 percent chance of appearing in any given year.
But it would have been even rarer in the 2000s, when the world was roughly 1.1 degree Fahrenheit cooler than it is now. And it would have been “virtually impossible” half a century ago, when the planet was 2 degrees Fahrenheit cooler, the researchers
“This event would not have been possible in June without climate change,” said the report’s lead author, Theodore Keeping, a climate scientist at Imperial College London. How frequent such heat waves become in the future depends, Dr. Keeping said, on how much nations do to cut emissions.”
Can’t see the video which alarmists should checkout as a reminder of why Earth has seasons:
??????
By definition, new record national daily all-time and June daily warmest temperature records set in at least seven countries during a single week is not “… perfectly normal seasonal heat …”