Scientists say Europe's heatwave 'impossible' without climate change
BBC News weather presenter Ben Rich on the heatwave affecting the UK and Europe, "It would have been impossible, even just fifty years ago, without the effects of climate change"
@Timolarch26What's more the effects of climate change are only just kicking in. The planet will continue to warm with increasingly unpredictable and dramatic effects until we stop burning fossil fuels... Some changes we've set in motion will likely last millennia IT'S REALLY THAT SIMPLE
Geoff Brock24Oh dear. There will be calls for his sacking!
Shared Ground17BBC should have started reporting on the science- that was known - 40 years ago.
danishpasty66.bsky.social9And in the meantime, you still have people denying anything different is going on. In the main people with zero knowledge or expertise.
slotsqueen3.bsky.social9Republicans in America told Citizens in Florida that they may not even utter the Words Climate Change..and frankly I blame them
Elinor Elliot8And yet he still omits three key facts: Increased carbon in the atmosphere traps infrared radiation that should be reflected back into space. As long as we keep pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere this will continue, inexorably. Human activity is responsible for this.
The heatwave in western Europe is the most severe and widespread ever, with almost half of Europe’s largest cities experiencing their worst ever heat stress, a combination of high temperatures and humidity. Unless we stop burning fossil fuels, future heat conditions will become even more extreme.
Davoyager4Stopping the burning will not be enough. We have to stop war if for no other reason than it too causes a lot of burning. But we will have to invent ways to cool the Earth while removing the excess greenhouse gasses already in thee air to save the biosphere that supports us, and I'm afraid all that's
Juho Vepsäläinen2Next decades will be wild.
Irritable Yet Soporific2Europe is doing one thing right: lower birth rates. One child per family will mean less strain on resources in the future. Be fruitless, divide.
Davoyager1A fleet of lighter than air platforms can be engineered to filter CO2 & methane creating & pooping harmless carbon pellets; and built in sufficent swarms to actualy remove enough greenhouse gas to make a difference, could also swarm over areas on our planet suffering from the unsurvivable conditions
Brent Peters1trump took our high speed rail prospects. Green jobs are outsourced. #FreeCA - solar shade - trees as ccs / use drones to plant forests - iron compound to sequester methane as it escapes permafrost - compound to reflect sun from ice cap - deploy shrooms to pacific garbage patch before plastic issues
saepurusass.bsky.social1Even from relatively cooler weather from relatively northern part of Europe, the outlook for anyone with functioning brain is far from pleasant. It is bad and it will get worse. How much worse however depends on our decisions and actions of today. We must cut GHG emissions and we must do it fast.
Mark Norman Francis5The most severe and widespread heatwave SO FAR
René Walter442°C in Berlin on the weekend 🔥
mtvoyageur.bsky.social3“Scientists like me are beginning to sound like a broken record, reacting year after year to heat extremes that climb ever higher,Yes this is climate change, yes it’s us, yes we have the solutions, no we’re not implementing them fast enough.”
Rüdiger Beckmann3Let’s build a few data centers just to be on the safe side.
The Telegraph & other #ClimateChange deniers are comparing this heat wave to 1976 & deduct there's nothing to worry about. Below, the temperature chart for the UK 1884-2020. The isolated red bars on the left - that's isolated hot summers. On the right, that's climate change. Source below.
dave161256.bsky.social5Here is some more interesting research from the Met Office where they modelled what would happen today if we has the same weather system that caused the heat wave in 1976. www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...
TheBossRoss 🧶3Data source: UK Met Office. Graph source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Te...
ᵀᶦⁿʸ ᵀᵉʳʳʸ ᵀᵒʷᵉˡˡᶦⁿᵍ3Please. Will someone shut down climate change deniers? For good! It's obviously warmer than it was 40 years ago. Saying anything else is dumb.
joczechowska.bsky.social2We particularly remember 1976 because it was a one off at that time but now every year is 1976.
XRtv.nl SF2Well 1976… that’s 50 years oops 100 ppm ago CO2 speaking
Daniel Håkansson1Every so often I get to pull this old clip out 🙂 bsky.app/profile/dani...
I need people to start treating this heatwave the same way they would treat a bad thunderstorm. This heat is deadly!! ESPECIALLY over here in europe where we have so little AC. Please just stay inside, if you can.
han43I literally got hotboxed on the bus yesterday. We are not equipped for this heat. People are underestimating what 40°C actually is. Please, please be careful.
Zulshi4If you can't stay inside (if you work outside, etc.), seek shade whenever possible and drink more water than you think you need. If you feel thirsty, you're likely already dehydrated. Wear clothing that is breathable and shields your eyes and face from the sun. Reapply sunscreen every 2 hours
Kyyhky (キキ) 🍄🐼 New YCH up!2As someone who lives in a city that reaches over 45 celcius on our very long summers, I’ve been saying this for years 😭 This climate is a health hazard, there should be times where it’s not expected for people to be outside, it’s literally dangerous 😭
“The number of deaths in France linked to the heatwave has climbed to four toddlers and more than 55 drownings, as the brutally hot conditions sweeping Europe were forecast to shift east, choking 150 million people under 35C (95F) temperatures.”
Amy Hoy4close to 20,000 people died in france in the 2003 heatwave and they (the government) learned nothing apparently scaled to US population that’d be almost 100k
Habeas Jocus2People must be going into shock in the cold water because that's a crazy high rate.
Alexis9My friend in Berlin says it was absolutely miserable today and it’s going to be over 100F tomorrow. I was there once when it was 90F and that was the most miserable I’ve ever been. Even places that have AC don’t *really* have AC!
Jac Mac6I want to point out every child died in a car — even 70° outside is enough to be life-threatening to a child in under 15 minutes. California has done a lot of PSA work on this front but please do not ever leave your children or animals in cars and always check that you have not forgotten them
Michelle, a good witch2My mom and sisters (one of them just gave birth to my niece) are in the Netherlands and they can handle themselves but it's on my mind a lot
You know that massive extreme heat disaster happening in Europe right now? It's coming to the eastern US. #climatechange #climate
Matt Wood2We are in Bordeaux, France right now and coming back Monday. Bringing it with us I guess. 110F/43C is ridiculously hot (personal record). At least here the humidity has been low. Lots of the US won’t be so lucky. Climate change is real and doesn’t care if you don’t believe in it.
Roger O'Rama 🇺🇦 🐸1Yes, we hit a Tmax of 96F with a 74F dew point here in the West of NLD today. Not exceedingly pleasant.
“Scientists say the early-season heatwave is part of a broader warming trend. #Europe is the world’s fastest-warming continent, with temperatures rising by approximately 0.56C per decade since the mid-1990s, more than double the global average.” #heatwave www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/...
Jonathan12Can we start a whole world class action law suit against the worst offenders. I honestly don’t know what will stop climate change except threatening shareholder profits
Jörg Tittel 🔜 Develop Brighton6Authorising and building Earth-destroying data centres is genocide. Everyone involved / enabling them should be prosecuted Nuremberg style. @zackpolanski.bsky.social @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov & Co. should make this #1. Or they, too, are part of the problem.
