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A heatwave continues to grip large parts of Europe, with authorities in many countries issuing health warnings amid searing temperatures.

Southern Spain is the worst-affected region, with temperatures in the mid-40s Celsius recorded in Seville and neighbouring areas.

A new heat record for June of 46C was set on Saturday in the town of El Granado, according to Spain's national weather service, which also said this month is on track to be the hottest June on record.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

El Granado, Spain humidity is at 34% at this temp, so it could be much worse.

[-] [email protected] 41 points 15 hours ago

Have they considered spending 5% of their GDP on weapons? That will surely save humanity.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

Honestly if they spend that on weapons and then use it lower the population it could help.

Shoot maybe Thanos was right...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

There are steps needed to slow global warming and become carbon neutral. Those don't matter much if someone shows up and machine guns your town and loots it.

[-] [email protected] 73 points 19 hours ago

While it is hard to link individual extreme weather events to climate change, heatwaves are becoming more common and more intense due to climate change.

Not that hard after all.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

From a scientific point of view this is correct, the climate system is too complex to say this particular event is due to climate change. Exceptional events happened in the past too. So you can only draw conclusions from larger statistics. What's solid science is the increasing averages, increasing frequencies of extreme events etc. If it was scientifically informed, that's what this kind of sentence mean.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

It started out hotter than it would be and the heatwave is at least a few degrees more severe than it would be otherwise.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Scientists do actually make attempts to investigate the contribution of the trends to specific events, it's called extreme event attribution, but it is a very young field and the error bars on everything are still huge. That said,

The American Meteorological Society stated in 2016 that "the science has now advanced to the point that we can detect the effects of climate change on some events with high confidence". [12]

But the quote from the article was strictly correct in saying "it's hard".

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago

I had to convert from Common to Freedom for this one. Are y'all ok over there? I'm used to that kind of heat here in the desert but goodness I couldn't imagine 115f near the coast y'all must be dying 😬

[-] [email protected] 12 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

The south of spain usually has dry air, it's at 12% right now.

But even in germany it's okay because it hasn't really rained that much this year (yay climate change), so it's hot but bearable. It's 31°C with "only" 45% right now.

We will get 37°C the next days, so I might change my stance.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

At this temperature, emergency medical departments are guaranteed to be full. Weeks later, an uptick in mortality is registered on stats, without exception.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Are y'all ok over there?

No, not really, with humidity and no aircon anything over the high 90s starts to get pretty unpleasant, especially when it goes on for days and doesn't cool down properly at night, so you can't cool your house down.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

Cooling down at night is actually a really big deal, plants and animals both use the chill night to rest from the heat. When the night stays hot then the heat really does a lot more damage to health.

[-] [email protected] 111 points 1 day ago

No worries guys this is just a normal summer day climate change isnt real, enjoy the sun

/s in case it isnt clear

[-] [email protected] 46 points 22 hours ago

There is still snow somewhere on earth, everything is fine!

- a politician somewhere

[-] [email protected] 33 points 22 hours ago

Lets all fly with our private jets to venice for a wedding!

oh also you cant use plastic straws cause its bad for the environment.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago

The Mediterranean is 4-6°C warmer than usually at this time of year

[-] [email protected] 40 points 23 hours ago

Across the Mediterranean to the south and east it is even hotter. Wearing shorts and putting on sunblock isn't the best way to deal with the heat, you need to shield yourself and make use of the chimney effect.

The Bedouin lesson: A scientific study proves robes are the best garment to wear in the desert heat

[-] [email protected] 32 points 20 hours ago

A Bedouin outfit might not fit socially, but a loose summer dress might work just as well.

So as a counter to the "pants for women" movement, let's start a "summer dresses for everyone" movement.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Just sell it as a modern take on (manliest of manly) Roman and Greek tunics. Alpha bros will be drooling for it in no time. That, however, will ruin the purpose by making the dress unwearable again so nah.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 19 hours ago

Shame I'm a fat old guy now. A few decades back I looked great in a Laura Ashley summer dress.

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