Il calore letale è la nuova realtà climatica dell’Europa

Europe must act quickly to face extreme heat as temperatures surpass 40 degrees and thousands of excess deaths are predicted in the coming days.

Southern Europe is in the midst of a soaring heatwave with temperatures reaching up to 46 degrees Celsius in Spain’s Huelva region — a new national record for June. Meanwhile, Italy, Greece, Portugal and the Western Balkans are also facing scorching highs, along with wildfires and civilian victims.

A World Health Organization expert issued a stark warning on Monday, calling for more action to stop tens of thousands of “unnecessary and largely preventable deaths.”

“It’s no longer a question of if we will have a heatwave, but how many are we going to experience this year and how long will they last,” said Marisol Yglesias Gonzalez, technical officer for climate change and health at the WHO in Bonn.

As for how many people could be at risk, Pierre Masselot, a statistician at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told POLITICO this heatwave could cause more than 4,500 excess deaths between June 30 and July 3. The countries likely to experience the highest excess death rates are Italy, Croatia, Slovenia and Luxembourg, he said. “The worst days will likely be [Tuesday] and Wednesday.”

Heat claims more than 175,000 lives across the WHO’s Europe region — spanning from Iceland to Russia — each year. A major study co-authored by Masselot and published in January, which covered 854 European cities, warned that deaths from heat would rise sharply if significant climate adaptation is not prioritized.

The WHO on Monday echoed that climate change, driven by the burning of fossil fuels, means heatwaves will become more frequent, dangerous and intense, leading to more serious illness and death.

Almost two-thirds of Spanish towns have been slapped with health risk warnings, including 804 at the highest alert level, according to data from the Aemet national weather agency. A spokesperson stated that intense heat is expected across the country until July 3. Meanwhile, heat alerts are also in place in France, Italy, Portugal and Greece.

Send this heat to Scotland please! Send it now!

Tell that to VdL(https://www.politico.eu/article/ursula-von-der-leyen-green-deal-eu-politics-economy-policy/) , Blackrock Fritz (https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/merz-promises-economic-boost-neglects-climate-policy-first-govt-declaration) and European voters(EU and non EU both) who have moved right wing ready to muck up the fight against climate collapse.

Here is the scoreboard –
[https://caneurope.org/content/uploads/2024/04/EU-Parliament-Scoreboard_2024.pdf](https://caneurope.org/content/uploads/2024/04/EU-Parliament-Scoreboard_2024.pdf)

Center Right, Right and Far right will lead to disastrous results leading to a complete climate collapse. Europeans need to decide.

P.S. – Downvoting this won’t change the reality that your favourite party is responsible for ruining the future for your kids. 😉

Air-conditioning.
It is the opposite of heating for the cold.

Everyone whose going to say – “Air-conditioning will solve this!” forgets they only really work up to 45C and when approaching that temp are becoming very inefficient.

In addition to that they aren’t lowering temperatures, just shifting the heat (plus creating a bunch more) out onto the city streets, heating them up significantly.

Last year it was raining for weeks, now it’s heatwave after heatwave. This is fun.

“Drill baby, drill.”

The heat is not the problem, the lack of rain it is. In my city in Romania, it only rained 5 minutes in the last month.

Apart from Trondheim… 12 deigers and rain. Every day.

I guess i should feel lucky?

Honestly as someone coming from the tropics, I don’t know how to feel about every summer becoming closer and closer to tropical temperature. I love this weather but no one can handle it here and it’s probably gonna be surpassing even my thresholds in a few years.

Writing this shirtless with a fan on me in my blinded out apartment that tops 30 degrees easily in summer…

We’ve always had lethal heat in Europe. Climate change just made it worse

there is a heat wave in july. i am sure the world will in two more weeks…