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Europe's scorched landscapes seen from space after summer heatwaves

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gxy0wqqd9o
43•blondie9x•1h ago

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geremiiah•55m ago
I remember in 2010, corporate propagandists were telling us that the effects of climate change won't be felt for a 100 years.
andai•46m ago
https://xkcd.com/2889/
netsharc•30m ago
There's an outdated statement: 50% of the fossil fuel civilization has burned, we burned after 1992. Outdated, so that percentage is probably a lot higher now.
bethekind•51m ago
Climate change affects geographies unequally. Seems like Europe and the tropics have been the first to suffer, year after year, and with the UK losing that warm current in ~47 years, can't help but wonder what is on European minds.
andai•47m ago
>with the UK losing that warm current in ~47 years

What's that going to look like?

bestouff•42m ago
Very hot in summer, very cold in winter.
afavour•24m ago
People might be ice skating on the Thames again.
RobotToaster•45m ago
> with the UK losing that warm current in ~47 years

Guess it will cancel out the increased temperature?

undersuit•12m ago
The AMOC delivers warm air year round, it cools the UK from the hotter southern air during the summer.
dgellow•43m ago
> can't help but wonder what is on European minds

The main thing I have in mind is that human civilization is completely fucked. What is needed to ensure things aren’t too horrible in the next century is so drastic and requires such a global coordinated effort that will never happen. There is no technology or super authority that will magically save us from a climate catastrophe this century.

Given the vast majority of the world population still see vegetarianism as a joke and not a necessity, and developed countries are ready to sacrifice pretty much everything to the AI compute gods we are truly fucked

delichon•28m ago
> But climate change, mainly due to the burning of fossil fuels, has been raising average temperatures for decades and making hot spells much more likely and intense.

Global fire emissions are on a downward trend, with the first half of this year at a record low in this century.

https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/lowest-global-biomass-burni...

dwedge•23m ago
The headline is a bit sensationalist. Scorched means burned not just dry, later it mentions that some of the images are scorched from wildfires, but that doesn't seem to correlate to the one shown under the headline.
CornishPasty•18m ago
According to the Cambridge dictionary it's a perfectly normal usage of the word, in fact it's pretty much the example for it...

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/scorched

dwedge•11m ago
I consider myself corrected, I didn't know scorched had two meanings and only one is to destroy by fire. It's interesting that the article uses both meanings of scorch
undersuit•17m ago
Scorched is being used correctly. Fire does not have to be involved, heat does.
mono442•9m ago
Precise temperature measurements have existed for maybe a hundred years. It's hard to tell whether such an anomaly is really rare but I'm sure the european politicians will use that as an excuse for raising taxes and letting in more "refugees" as if that would help slow down the climate change in any way.
netsharc•25m ago
Yeah, conflict is guaranteed. China will probably invade Russia and secure Lake Baikal and vast areas of Siberia. Europe might start shooting at "smugglers" earnestly (sorry to the "collateral damage").

I guess Eric or Barron will follow Project 2025 Edition 10's guideline and invade Greenland to secure their water for USA. And Canada's favorable climate?

kvgr•38m ago
Well in my mind is no one else cares and the EU is holier than pope. We are destroying our economy for promile of world polution and are even shamed for using AC.

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