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Posted on 06/27/2026 9:25:56 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
On Wednesday, Pierre Masselot received a text from his daughter’s nursery – less than 50 miles from the weather station that was the first this week to break the UK June temperature record – asking parents to collect children early because the school buildings were about to get worryingly hot.
Similar scenes were repeated across Europe this week as the continent swelters through its most severe and widespread heatwave on record – an oppressive force made hotter by carbon pollution and less bearable by repeated failures to prepare for it. France experienced its hottest day and night on record, while the UK and Switzerland both broke their heat records for a June day.
For Masselot, an environmental epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, who has become one of Europe’s leading detectives tallying the hidden death toll from heatwaves, the past few days are reminiscent of the terrible summer heat that swept Europe in 2003. While he was too young then to fear for his health, he was old enough to grasp the horrors it held.
Then, the teenager from southern France was bouncing basketballs in the sun at summer camp as brutal August heat turned towns and cities across Europe into ovens. Hot days stressed bodies and warm nights ruined rest. Older people, particularly women and those who lived alone, made up the bulk of the 70,000 victims who died from that summer’s extreme heat.
Now, the exceptions of the past have become the norms of today – and the exceptions of today will soon be the norms of tomorrow.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
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Hot in the summer time. Who would have thunk it?
Unprepared?
It’s exactly what they were preparing for.
The more dead peasants the better.
What? A taste of reality? The Euroweenies can sweat for a while
In an emergency the government is supposed to help, the people dying and suffering in Europe need more nuclear energy and some rebates on air conditioners.
Not interested. Virtue signaling is more important
They are sitting next to an ocean of oil and refuse to drill so they build useless windmills.
Maybe during the next flood they will ban boats not made out of recyclables.
Yurp? Unprepared? They planned this tempest in a teapot.
Because Brussels wants the North Korean package for their people.
The EU clowns are just incompetent and malevolent and are incapable of actually doing anything except narrative construction and legal manipulations.
And they are so foolish that they alienate even their own insiders.
Case in point they announced they turned off the AC at the EU Commission HQ and advised staff to dress lightly, hydrate... etc.
Turns out floors 1-7 were turned off but the AC was still on floors 8-13 for the toffs including von der Leyen etc.
Drivel.
The Soviets had the same problems.
The EU will collapse soon. Will they make it to 2050? I doubt it.
The EU is becoming too large, rigid, and disconnected from reality. Just like the Soviets.
Didn’t Europe have a “heatwave” just like this in 1976?
It’s close to or over a hundred here in Florida, Euroweenies, cry me a river.
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