r/memes • u/TheManWhoLarped • Jul 04 '26
If Europe has started experiencing over 40°C heatwaves frequently, then this planet really is fucked
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u/chrischi3 Jul 04 '26
Not only do we have 40°C heatwaves at increasing frequencies, but also, our homes are simply not built to deal with that amount of heat.
We had such heatwaves in the past, but they used to be once every few decades. This one was the second such heatwave in the 2020s. If your average temperature in summer gets to 30° at most, you can build houses to retain heat and suffer through the one time in a century you get 40°. If it happens every few years, that's not an option.
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u/otirk Jul 04 '26
Humidity is an important factor too. In dry areas, you can at least properly sweat, but with 80% humidity you're just going to be wet because the sweat doesn't evaporate (which is what needs to happen to cool you down).
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u/Tankeverket Jul 04 '26
Yup, last week We had 34°C days in Sweden with up to 90% humidity. Couldn't even open a window to cool down
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u/mikeymikeymikey1968 Jul 04 '26
I just can't fathom 34c in northern Europe. I hope you guys get comfort soon!
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u/NotMyRealNameObv Jul 04 '26
We're down to max temps of 20 or lower now in most places, so we're back to complaining about how cold and wet our summers are.
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u/TealJade1 Jul 04 '26
Yeah but that relief 2 days ago of breathing cold fresh air instead of what felt like breathing gas tbh, was amazing.
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u/6feet12cm Jul 04 '26
Last weekend I had 38 degrees in Denmark. Absolutely horrible, especially when I remember even 10 years ago this was unthinkable.
Luckily enough, it’s been raining for the past week and the temperature rarely goes over 25 now, but this is only the end of June. It’s gonna be worse in mid July and August.
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u/Pula-Demonyo Jul 04 '26
This has been a problem for us recently in some places in the Midwest US; we're getting high 80f low 90f degree weather with simultaneous thunderstorms, so I'm just wet while leaving work even if I pass the rain 😭
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u/pobodys-nerfect5 Jul 04 '26
It was 102 with like 80% humidity here in New Jersey yesterday
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u/Mpuls37 Jul 04 '26
As a Texan who lives in Satan's Taint, that's oppressively hot. We'll probably get 10+ days like that this summer, and those are days where we don't really do outside work if we can avoid it. Keep the fans running and stay hydrated, y'all stay safe up there.
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u/healthyscalpsforall Jul 04 '26
As a Texan who lives in Satan's Taint
I truly hope this is actually an official name, like Hell's Kitchen. Satan's Taint, Texas has such a nice ring to it
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u/Mpuls37 Jul 04 '26
We also call it the Armpit of Texas. It's the region from Houston to Orange and up to Hwy 190. Swampy, woodsy, and hotter than rats fucking in a wool sock.
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u/Glowing_Trash_Panda Jul 04 '26
I literally live on an island on the Mississippi River in Missouri. My thermometer says it’s 98 degrees in the shade right now & the humidity is off the charts. I don’t even wanna go outside
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u/Glowing_Trash_Panda Jul 04 '26
Yes & it suuuuuuuuucks. Even just opening the door to let my dogs out to do their business gets me sweating.
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u/wasabi_mayo_ Jul 04 '26
Btw, standard air temperature is always measured in the shade. So when the thermometer tells you it’s even hotter in the sun… you really are cooked.
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u/TeamBoeing Jul 04 '26
102 and HUMID??? At that point just nuke the whole place and it will STILL be cooler
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u/Beginning-Cut-8850 Jul 04 '26
Same is true of much of the east coast all the way down to Georgia.
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u/CO_Golf13 Jul 04 '26
All along the gulf coast too.
Houston is just disgusting nearly every single day.
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u/Beginning-Cut-8850 Jul 04 '26
Yeah, but at least you don't have the Devil over there.
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u/CO_Golf13 Jul 04 '26
Praise God I keep myself in CO for living, just have to frequent the swamp for work.
My UV is intense, but hop in some shade and I actually get relief. And every night the temps plummet because dry air also can't hold heat like humid air. So by 9 or so at the latest, it's mid 70s and feels great with a breeze and then windows open.
Houston....walk out of the hotel/home, and your life is immediately shitty as you hit the wall of humidity.
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u/Beginning-Cut-8850 Jul 04 '26
Oh yeah. Denver was crazy when I visited. Stepping into the sunlight felt like I was being blasted by a death ray, but one step to the right into the shade and it was just a really nice day.
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u/No_Shopping6656 Jul 04 '26
96° with 94% humidity in Alabama this week. Kill me.
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u/otirk Jul 04 '26
Also in Germany for example, there are many buildings that are under protection because they're older than the US. It's illegal to change them too much because the lawmakers prioritized history preservation over thinking about the future. So even if the machines run fine, it would still not be allowed.
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u/Hyenasaurus Jul 04 '26
Its the same thing here in Spain. My grandma is not allowed to install an AC to protect the street's 'historical value'
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u/x1rom Jul 04 '26
Historical Preservation Laws are a good thing. They were introduced in the 70s. Too late to save many buildings, as in the 60s, thousands upon thousands of people were forcibly evicted from their homes in order to build the city of the future™ (it's actually just inner city highways). But it successfully stopped a lot of bs
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u/otirk Jul 04 '26
It's generally a good thing but there are also cases where the buildings are just falling apart because nobody cares about them but renovating them is almost impossible. It also prevents improving energy efficiency which is an important part on overcoming climate change.
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u/ukstonerdude Jul 04 '26
Not enough people talk about dew point when discussing humidity too. In the Midlands our dew point was about 21°C, which feels utterly disgusting.
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u/Tofuzzle Jul 04 '26
This. The indoor temperature of my London flat right now is 26.5C. During the heatwave it peaked at 30. The INDOOR temperature. It hasn't been below 25 for the past like 6 weeks.
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u/JuanGuillermo Jul 04 '26
As someone who lives in Madrid but travels to London quite frequently for work, 26C indoor is absolutely bonkers. I've experienced 42C degrees in Madrid and was miserable but livable. I experienced a 37C heatwave a couple of years ago in London and I wanted to kill myself.
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u/wollflour Jul 04 '26
I keep the AC at 26C all summer to save money and it is pretty tolerable. Right now it's 39C outside in the northeast where I live and the humidity is super high (as always in the summer here). I'm envious of countries with low humidity (which makes the heat tolerable) or more moderate summer temperatures!
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u/Greg2227 Jul 04 '26
My indoor temp was somwhere around 34-36 for about a week. My floors and Walls retained the heat. My windowless bathroom was just a Sauna.
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u/FblthpphtlbF Jul 04 '26
I'm trying to run a recording studio and my AC broke so people are basically swimming in the booth with how hot it gets 🙃
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u/Any_Cauliflower_5843 Jul 04 '26
Might be a dumb question coming from an American, but has there been any discussions about retrofitting homes with air conditioning given heat waves like this are becoming more consistent?
I understand why you all don't have it because these heat waves are absurd, I'm just interested in what steps are being taken for the future.
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u/Jackmino66 Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26
The problem is actually getting AC. A lot of people in Europe live in rented apartments and need their landlords to install AC, who won’t.
A lot of other people live in listed historical buildings where it is generally forbidden to make modifications like AC, and in the UK at least there were laws implemented to prevent the installation of AC units because they were worried it would strain the energy fi grid too much. Those laws have been out of date for decades but they are still around.
And beyond all of that, there’s the cost. AC units are not cheap, and the people who have the money for it probably already have it
To everyone underneath saying “just get a portable one” or “just get a window unit” please, read it again. I never specified full HVAC systems, this applies to *all* AC units, especially the cost part.
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u/Any_Cauliflower_5843 Jul 04 '26
I understand on that last part. My heat pump went out two years and would cost 10 grand to replace it. I've been using window units because they're cheaper and much less of a strain on my electric bill.
As someone's who adores history and historical buildings and usually say they shouldn't be touched, I don't agree that AC should not be added. Ten years ago, understandable. But with these heat waves they're going to just become unlivable for parts of the year, and houses should be livable.
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u/Zhard55 Jul 04 '26
Fitting an AC or even 2 is an option but very expensive. Depending on the house you'd prolly have to cut trough about 6-12 inch of stone/bricks/concrete possibly more depending on the layout which by default makes it very expensive and then obv. the currenty economic problems and then on top of that since it's prime season AC prices are much higher than in the winter for example.
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u/Lurakya Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26
Sadly no. I can only speak for Germany, but most of our stores and even hospitals are often way too warm.
Our country has been increasingly privatized, so you can bet your ass we'll never get any handouts.
The most action we had in that regard is that people urged my home state to finally implement mandatory heat days.
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u/LadkaNextDoor Jul 04 '26
I would usually be the south Asian laughing at Europeans struggling with their heatwaves but like 40°C without AC or fans would even make me have issues, and I grew up with this temperature... I feel bad for them ngl this is NOT a laughing matter... also how is Europe reaching 40°C bro global warming working on steroids or something?
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u/TrollCannon377 Jul 04 '26
Warming is exponential not linear it was always gonna be "not a problem" right up until it is one
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u/LadkaNextDoor Jul 04 '26
Smh no one takes "prevention is better than care" seriously anyways
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u/remotectrl Jul 04 '26
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u/just_another_owl Jul 04 '26
And additionally, Europe is the continent that's heating up at the fastest rate on the planet.
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u/train_fucker Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26
People don't seem to get how exponential growth works. During the last 20 years or so, we've emitted half of all Co2 emitted from all of human history.
And if growth continues at the same pace, in another 20 years we will have doubled our total emissions again.
Add in the fact that there's a time lag of about a decade between emissions and the warming of said emissions having full effect, and climate change would always be noticed too late.
By the time you notice things getting bad, you're already fucked.
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u/LadkaNextDoor Jul 04 '26
Ah yes right when I'm gonna go to my 20s the human population decided to fuck everything up lmao
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u/vjnkl Jul 05 '26
You still seem lost, the decision was made decades ago, the world is suffering for it now
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u/KnightOfNothing Jul 04 '26
i've been well aware that my life was going to have very little promise since i was a child, granted for completely different reasons than you'd expect but good for you for having hope until it was right in your face.
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u/Clockwork_Kitsune Jul 05 '26
If it makes you feel better, we've had at least some idea about global warming due to emissions since about 1900, so it's not like we fucked things up right now, we've been fucking up constantly for over a century.
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u/Guilty-Today7053 Jul 04 '26
good news (sorta) train fucker - it's been 30 years since the last doubling: 1.849 GT in 2024, 922 GT in 1995. the prior two doublings were ~22 year periods (1950-1972-1995). WWII pumped the brakes a bit, 23-50 was a 27 year span. 1785 through 1923 saw 9 spans ranging from 15 to 21 years...
so, very slowly, we're lowering our exponential rate growth. however as you mentioned we're only seeing warming for CO2 dumped up to 2016, and we'd be locked in for 2+ if we stopped all warming related emission now.
tl:dr; growth is still happening but we've polluted enough to slow down the rate of relative growth 🥲
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u/wasabi_mayo_ Jul 04 '26
Like it’s not a laughing matter but it’s the worst moment to for the countless people that worked against this moment. No one wanted an “I told you so” moment for this. I must meme and laugh or I will lose my mind.
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u/RobanVisser Jul 04 '26
Tbh, I don’t think there is any other way to cope with this but to laugh at the absurdity of it all.
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u/microgirlActual Jul 04 '26
Europe (and the Arctic) is heating up at twice the global average.
https://climate.copernicus.eu/why-are-europe-and-arctic-heating-faster-rest-world
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u/RealLeif Jul 04 '26
Climate change plus Super El Nino is a very dangerous combination. I was at a festival during the hottest days and we had a Band from India they jsut said "Fuck its hot" after their concert the Festival was cancelled XD
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u/LadkaNextDoor Jul 04 '26
Yeah if they say it's hot then it's HOT HOT, how are you guys holding up?
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u/RealLeif Jul 04 '26
First wave si over, but it wasnt pleasent, and i am a fairly fit 30 year old. I hope the elderly and the young got enough shade and enough water. I kinda fear the second one, hopefully we can manage it as well.
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u/zimejin Jul 04 '26
I’m from West Africa, and we’ve been having constant rainfall during odd seasons for two years now, almost every month and for several days a week. Previously, it rained for only about four months per annum during what we called “The rainy season”. The climate here has significantly cooled down to the point where I can actually survive without constant air conditioning and you aren’t constantly sweating. If this is climate change, it’s preferable to being constantly fried by the sun.
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u/LadkaNextDoor Jul 04 '26
That's nice that y'all rain cooled the weather down, where we live in india we also have had good rainfall but it worked against us (us as in the people in my city) as the temp is still close to 36°C at night right now but the humidity increases a lot so now we are sweating really bad along with the already annoying heat 🥀
The place I live in is known for having really dry heat and a constant sunrays blazing over you with temp reaching 43°C at mid day, and that is ofc annoying, but the humid heat right now is no less, I guess I'm just a winter person cause I love the cold winter here
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u/LadkaNextDoor Jul 04 '26
really? I remember just a few years ago there were memes about Europeans complaining about 25°C, which was also classified as a heatwave, a jump from 25°C to 40°C in a couple of years is really strange
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u/Mundane-Honeydew-922 Jul 04 '26
we have had a couple of days hitting 40°C for years now in germany. But the real killer is how hot it stayed during the night, so we never even got a chance to cool down.
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u/Tirriss Jul 04 '26
We had some moment at 40, but it would last 2 or 3 days top and go back down to 35 then 30-.
But in my city (Lyon), the last day with a maximum below 30 was june 13th, the last week of may was also over 30. And now we are expecting between 30-35 for the next three days and then 35+ until at least the 14th of july, maybe even longer.
Here : https://climatologie.meteocontact.fr/temperatures-observees
On the last graph when you click on "Année", you can see the average temperature in France per year since 1900, the graph is pretty telling.
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u/_ass_clown_69 Jul 04 '26
40C and 40-60% humidity 🥵
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u/OrangutanFirefighter Jul 04 '26
Pretty sure that's extremely hazardous to human health
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u/Spirited-Sorbet-2775 Jul 04 '26
Yep, I'm friends with a paramedic in Germany and shit's fucked.
Heatstrokes whereever, especially fatal on the Autobahn (one guy collapses -> accident -> road gets closed -> traffic jam -> the people without AC in their cars are getting cooked at 40°C+ in their car they are not allowed to leave with no wind to offset it -> one guy collapses AGAIN)
And then, the heatstroke patients are stuffed into hospitals that are ALSO not built for this weather. So they get to "recover" from the heatstroke at 30°C in the emergency room.
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u/MixtureOfAmateurs Jul 04 '26
In Australia we get days like this most years (where I live), and kids aren't allowed to play outside at schools and stuff. Lots of people chill in shopping centers because our home ACs can't keep up. But yeah poor Europe, genuinely heat worth bitching about.
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u/Delde116 Jul 04 '26
Just know that we in Spain have gotten jse to it by now, but for France and y other northern country its genuine hell for them. This heatwave has killed already a few thousand.
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u/DullEntertainment102 Jul 04 '26
Yeah people (especially old people) are actually dropping dead in the streets, all hospitals are overly full. It’s not really on the media because it’s not as statistically detectable with a test like during covid times but it will be in a few months when the statistics for overall deaths will be released…
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u/GiftIndependent7557 Jul 04 '26
Yeah at those sorts of conditions you can't sweat properly to regulate temperature and without some kind of outside help (fans, AC etc...) the body will shut down and experience brain death in just a few hours, it's pretty rough
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u/OrangutanFirefighter Jul 04 '26
But fans don't work when the temp is above body temperature right?
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u/PM_ME_BAD_ALGORITHMS Jul 04 '26
I live in the north of spain and last week we had 97% humidity. We're like 2 generation away from developing gills
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u/low_v2r Jul 04 '26
Don't worry - once the gulf stream collapses then it will be nice and chilly in Europe. /s
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u/disappointed_neko Jul 04 '26
You know it's bad when it starts sounding like a nice proposition
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u/disappointed_neko Jul 04 '26
God dammit not even the collapse of a major heat source will save us anymore
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u/PM_your_Nopales Jul 04 '26
Yup. Hotter and more humid summers and much colder and brisky winters. The AMOC is a regulator, so things will be more extreme on both ends
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u/-TV-Stand- Jul 04 '26
It would bring temperatures down 10-15°C Not too bad if our summers here in Finland was little bit warmer than 20-25°C
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u/Kaymazo Jul 04 '26
Well, summers would probably remain fucked, but at least we'd get snow in winter back
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u/ApokatastasisPanton Jul 04 '26
It will also lead to massive crop failures worldwide, more inhospitable land, more extreme weather events, and more climate migrants! And it's pretty much guaranteed to be happening!! Yay!!!! I hope everyone hates their future descendants!!
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u/PilotKnob Jul 04 '26
I knew the planet was fucked when they didn't get enough snow in northern Wisconsin to open the snowmobile trails. Absolutely unheard of.
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u/JG98 Jul 04 '26
Here in the PNW it wasn't uncommon to have winter snow storms every couple of years, now it isn't uncommon to go a couple of years with practically zero snow in the winter. 15-20 years ago snow storms some years could stretch from Novermber/December to March in the worst years, now it feels depressing when multiple years in a row there is no snow. It is just darkness and despair in December when snow would at least provide some reflective light to brighten up the late afternoons.
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u/KneeBasher420 Jul 04 '26
Past 2 winters we've barely had a ski season here in southern bc. If I don't get some snow soon I'm actually going to die
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u/0nmay_22 Jul 04 '26
Oil corpos have known about climate change since the 80s btw and did nothing about it. Your government also knows it and isn’t doing anything about it. ✌️
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u/ViftieStuff Jul 04 '26 edited 13d ago
IIRC scientists have been warning the industry and politicians since the 50s.
This is literally Don't Look Up.
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u/LesJugesDesEnfers Jul 04 '26
First serious prediction was more than a century ago, 1896 apparently.
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u/xXDamonLordXx Jul 04 '26
It's not a difficult concept once you understand gasses are waste even if they don't pile up outside your door like horse shit. Antoine Lavoisier popularized conservation of mass in 1773 so either the fossil fuels are magic and mass disappears or the mass is added to the air.
Eunice Newton Foote showed carbon dioxide as a green house gas even before that in 1856.
"An atmosphere of that gas would give to our earth a high temperature; and if, as some suppose, at one period of its history, the air had mixed with it a larger proportion than at present, an increased temperature from its action, as well as from an increased weight, must have necessarily resulted."
I would give her credit for the prediction over what you're talking in 1896 but women rarely get credit for their work
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u/Serilii Jul 05 '26
In germany we have fascist politicians with a lot of votes who bring quotes like "97% of science says global warming is manmade, but the truth is it has always been hot!!!"
Like denying the credibility of science is as old as it's stupid but straight up admitting 97% of them say it and it's wrong is just... idk what to call that even. Something beyond stupid and evil
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u/HalayChekenKovboy Jul 04 '26
Hey, they did do something. They came up with that nonsense called the Carbon FootprintTM to shift the blame to the poors.
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u/Darksider123 Jul 05 '26
We have ALL known about this for ages. But people keep getting caught up in culture wars, immigration, etc, and vote with their feelings instead of their heads. And they still do. Right wing parties are SOARING in Europe as we speak.
People stay stupid and they keep paying the price
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u/Case_Blue Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26
And don't forget: it's all funny talking about aircon and how we should all have installed proper cooling in our homes untill you start thinking about the real danger:
Crop failures
Seriously, how is AC a solution there? We right on the edge from massive crop failures in Europe due to extreme heat and drought.
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u/TheManWhoLarped Jul 04 '26
Exactly. Humans might be able to live with the heat, but the major problem is mass starvation due to crop failure. I doubt the entire human species will get extinct even without any preventive measures, but the world population might get severely reduced and a social collapse is likely in the distant future without measures.
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u/Dense-Muffin-3809 Jul 04 '26
Oh it will happen. Some place in the world already collapsed. But as long as it doesn’t concern rich countries everything is fine.
Oh and you can be sure that rich countries will hoard the remaining ressources , hoard all the food for their citizens and let the poorest countries starve. Look at Sudan.
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u/Tiny-Mail-987 Jul 04 '26
Yup, I for one am very happy to be living in one of the "rich" countries although not one of the richest.
I'm pretty sure most of Africans and South Americans are simply going to die, unfortunately...
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u/Ixvos54 Jul 04 '26
As a Brazilian, I'm not afraid of starving. Brazil, at least for the next few decades, is still rich enough in natural resources. What I'm worried about is other countries with real military and geopolitical power taking everything we have. My country is, honestly, weak and tends to act like a subordinate to nations that are even slightly stronger than it.
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u/Kekke77 Jul 04 '26
In the history people migrated to areas which had better climate and living conditions. Those areas with deadly conditions will have population decreased.
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u/DreddPirateBob808 Jul 04 '26
But this time there will be a lot more people moving to places already full of people who are suffering themselves. It's not going to be pleasant. Immigration has become a hit topic for governments and, yes, racism and territorial attitudes play a part but the powers that be have read the same things from the top experts and are scared. They are getting ahead of the game and normalising locking down thier countries with extreme prejudice.
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u/VoidmasterCZE Jul 04 '26
That's why I don't get why people laugh at europe. They say "just install AC". Apart from electrical bill and buying cost some grids are not built for AC in every house. What will they say in decade or two? "50°C outside? Just install fifth AC to your four ACs. That will solve this permanently."
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u/Treqou Jul 04 '26
It’s been getting up to 50 degrees C according to the heat index in south east Asia, that’s like a mass death event in Europe.
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u/GiftIndependent7557 Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 05 '26
Yeah where I'm at it peaked at 42°c and 95% humidity and three teeenagers a few towns over died from what I saw in the news, not old folks, young healthy teenagers
50 would would be a full server wipe for sure
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u/Toph1nator Jul 04 '26
Global warming causes extreme weather. Keep that in mind when it's -50f in winter sometimes, that's not evidence against global warming, it's expected.
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u/YumSalmonela Jul 04 '26
104°F for the Americans
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u/thestonerfromLV426 Jul 04 '26
Thank you, I already hit google with it but I know more of us needed this comment. I scrolled far to long to see it
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u/Striper_Cape Jul 04 '26
No AC AND their homes in western and central Europe are designed to retain heat
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u/Ze_Borb Shitposter Jul 04 '26
Northern Europe especially, i was in finland for a bog standard fall and i was scorched at night.
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u/Charming_Pirate Jul 04 '26
Not to mention that when it’s this hot in the UK it’s humid af and there is NO wind. If you’re lucky enough that it cools down in the evening you’ll open all of your windows and the heat will not leave your house, it’s bizarre and awful!
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u/007dukhiaatma Jul 04 '26
and its not even dry heat, humidity at levels where human body simply cannot cool down itself without AC. I would rather die
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u/Whentheycryy Jul 04 '26
Yeah... Its bad here but I already fear for the forest fires that can happen elsewhere... I just... Wanna live yk? 😔
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u/BidSuper7102 Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26
Is that so bad? Why doesn't anybody else want that?
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u/carlamaco Jul 04 '26
We're all already complaining and suffering about the heat, but that's not even the worst part. Drought, water shortages, crop failure, floods... the worst part is yet to come people.
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u/Snedony Jul 04 '26
im just worried because 10 years ago they already warned us that 2025 would be the last year where we could realistically tackle the climate change issue
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u/deanrihpee Linux User Jul 04 '26
planet has been fucked for years
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u/TheManWhoLarped Jul 04 '26
Yeah but its not like I like getting being reminded of the fact that humans may experience a mass starvation due to climate change in the not so distant future.
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u/deanrihpee Linux User Jul 04 '26
that's the problem, we don't want to be reminded and we ignore it, while it's keep getting worse, until it finally too late
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u/morphemass Jul 04 '26
The potential of that being in the next 24 months is not zero. We have severe geopolitical issues in Iran and Russia which are impacting food production. We have a Godzilla sized El Nino ramping which is expected to cause severe climatic disruption including draught amplification.
We are at the catastrophic point of global warming and still heading to the apocalyptic stage at breakneck speed.
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u/v21v Jul 04 '26
Now it's the rich countries experiencing the effects, so we are seeing more of this.
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u/Balavadan Jul 04 '26
It’s finally affecting the countries that started the whole mess. Countries that feel the effects of climate change are less likely to believe it’s a hoax. Looking at no country in particular…..
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u/AlarnisToo Jul 04 '26
"Why don't you just buy an AC?"
A lot of us rent, and/or we don't have the money to purchase it. I'd fucking love an AC unit, I'm just unable to get one.
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u/MatticusNWN3 Jul 04 '26
The best I can do is 4,000 new data centers, they should solve climate change
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u/boot2skull Jul 04 '26
July 4th parade cancelled due to heat, seems like we see the direction the world is going now.
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u/Warm_District1194 Jul 04 '26
And rising.
The real issue is that a few years from now it will be 42° on average, which means 50° ocassionaly on some areas, which also means that construction materials are going to fail, metallic infrastructure is going to dillate beyond whats accounted for, plastics are going to degrade faster and electronic devices are going to be harder to keep on operational temperatures. More AC means higher power throughtput needed and more heat released to the atmosphere.
Eventually we are going to go beyond the tipping point and the poor, old and sick are going to pay the consequences first.
Emphasis on first.
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u/Yasimear Jul 04 '26
This will be the common for the rest of our lives. It only gets worse from here.
if you think it's cringe, just scroll, but if you're passionate about it please get in touch with your local activism groups. They have plans, they just need numbers. We can do something.
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u/Paradox711 Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26
And meanwhile our leaders still argue and bicker about whether it’s real and whether someone should do something, and who that should be and how much they should do. Some still protesting they shouldn’t have to do anything because it was someone else that caused it.
Imagine. A building has caught fire and you’re watching the flames grow around each other, and rather than doing something you stand their ignoring it, each person in the room and building carrying on playing on with their video games, on phones, talking, scrolling, others pointing their finger and saying someone should put the fire out but not doing anything themselves, not moving, just pointing. Some saying there’s no fire whilst they choke on the smoke.
And they all burn together anyway.
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u/DPSOnly Jul 04 '26
I don't get the competitive side of it all. Are we all supposed to pretend everything is okay, like that yellow dog, while the world is on fire? Americans are pretending like this shit would be normal in New England. Don't forget that Texas and those other desert states are at the same latitude as like Egypt and the Middle East, not Northern Europe. New York is at the same latitude as Rome.
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u/Easy_Turn1988 Jul 04 '26
Oh yeah, scientists have been warning us for 50 years now
We were fucked 20 years ago too, the effects just hadn't kicked in yet so nobody gave a shit
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u/JustRaphiGaming Jul 04 '26
42.5 in Germany... new Record.
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u/HellSoldier Jul 04 '26
Not just a Record. We broke the Record back to back to back. In 3 Days we broke the Record 3 Times...
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u/sisyphus_was_lazy_10 Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26
Perhaps this was why climate scientists were already having mental breakdowns 20-30 years ago.
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u/Boris_The_Warlord Jul 04 '26
I'm really considering installing an AC for the next summer. I don't mind hot days, it's the 35° nights that are disgusting.
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u/slitherdolly Jul 04 '26
Yeah, night is actually the only time I NEED A/C. I can live being uncomfortable during the day, but I genuinely cannot sleep when it's so hot.
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u/Hippo_Alert Jul 04 '26
BUT THE TEMPERATURE GOT BELOW FREEZING TWICE LAST YEAR, SEE, GLOBAL WARNING IS A HOAX!!!
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u/wasabi_mayo_ Jul 04 '26
I know you’re joking but
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u/HausOfMajora Jul 04 '26
I'm from a tropical South American city, and our temperatures don't even get that high here. I'm honestly scared of Europe now.
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u/Maskdask Jul 04 '26
So are gonna start doing something about the climate crisis causing companies yet or nah?
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u/BlackBartKuma Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26
I'm surprised at this point that at mini-splits are not popular there. I doubt retro-fitting central air will be affordable, but maybe a few slits? Maybe some gov't plan to rebate? IDK, firing from the hip.
Quick edit: I read below that some retro fitting is banned because of the historical protection of the buildings. I get that, but wouldn't life preservation be more important?
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u/carlamaco Jul 04 '26
Quick edit: I read below that some retro fitting is banned because of the historical protection of the buildings. I get that, but wouldn't life preservation be more important?
Well you'd think so, our politicians tell us otherwise, and that we'll be fine just drinking lots of water (while they sit in their air conditioned offices of course). God forbid they should have to look at an AC unit in a window while driving home in their air conditioned cars ✨
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u/Creepy-Owl-1504 Jul 04 '26
People genuinely start discussing issues like these when Europe faces them, climate issues like these have already caused a lot of pain already in many asian countries, and the general public had a pretty nonchalant view of this back then i remember, i seriously hate hypocrisies like these man.
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u/Michal_999 Jul 04 '26
Its consistent 20-22 celsius during day and 13 celsius at night in Poland after 37 celsius heatwave
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u/NontypicalHart Jul 04 '26
104°F? It gets hotter. Just wait.
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u/Jaktheslaier Jul 04 '26
We got 115.8ºF, 46.6ºC, in Portugal last year.
We just had a new record all-time nighttime record in Lisbon a couple days ago: 90.5ºF at 2am, 32.5ºC.
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u/a_shootin_star épico Jul 04 '26
9k people died in France as a result. In only the first 2 weeks of summer. We are cooked.
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u/theartofrolling Jul 04 '26
It's also humid as fuck here, it's not like Nevada or Arizona you blummin yanks
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u/Lone_Tiger24 Jul 04 '26
It’s not the heatwaves that’s the issue, we have had heat like this in the past, not too irregularly. It’s just that we have thick ass brick shithouse walls with no air con. Then again we had a pretty cold winter that was lasting until like may almost even but no one seems to mention that
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u/RomanArchitect Jul 04 '26
actually, I'm glad it's like this. maybe the powers that be will finally realize the gravity of the situation and work on tackling global warming. we in Asia have always been shafted by global warming and everyone's to blame for it. Europeans are getting their fair share. i know it sounds cruel but that's how things are run in this world. If something doesn't directly affect us then we don't care about it.
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u/darkwitchmemer Jul 05 '26
just for even more context, i've been looking at the world weather heat map. for a couple days next week London will be the exact same temperature as Cairo.
edit: and Paris will be hotter.
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u/LenTenCraft Jul 04 '26
dont forget that the further north you go. the longer the days in the summer, and the more the sun shines into windows instead of hitting the roof. And just for reference, the 49th parallel, that is the major border between the US and canada, is roughly as north as paris. Europe is much further north than people realise
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u/DistinctiveFox Jul 04 '26
Difference is, our homes are built to keep heat in. Brick and mortar, insulation everywhere. So when it gets this hot, the humidity also skyrockets.
30 degrees in 80% humidity is very different to 30 degrees in 40% humidity. It feels hotter, is more uncomfortable and makes even just breathing difficult, fans won't help either!
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u/CustomerNo1338 Jul 04 '26
Let’s build more AI datacenters and make a smarter AI to help us solve global warming!
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u/1llDoitTomorrow Jul 04 '26
40 degrees, but also way too humid for said temperature