Climate change is the "unequivocal" cause of the intense heatwave gripping Western Europe, according to a study by World Weather Attribution scientists. The heatwave would have been significantly less severe without climate change, with some conditions being "practically impossible" 50 years ago.
We keep calling every summer unprecedented. At some point this just becomes the normal, and that is the scary part.
Attribution science is solid now. They can actually quantify how much hotter warming made this. It isn't hand-waving anymore.
42C in June. My grandparents never lived through this here. Anyone claiming nothing changed isn't paying attention.
Less arguing, more shade and water. Our cities were built for a climate that no longer exists, and older people are dying.
Every heatwave gets pinned on climate change now. Europe had brutal summers in 1976 and 2003 too.
The real story is infrastructure. Rails buckling, grids tripping. We adapted for a world that is already gone.
